Cartalk

(1973 September 19)

I am not very knowledgeable on makes and types of cars, but I can tell you what I think and like. Well, with the fuel shortage on, the little cars are more economical; of course that helps. All the new cars must say how many miles they go on a gallon of gas, so you would have that to go on. But I do feel unsafe myself in a little Beetle - OK for city driving but on a highway with trucks and all I would say no. What about other makes like Ford, Chevrolet, others - ? I do not like a 2-door sedan. You wish you'd never bot it every time the person in the front seat has to get out to tip his seat for the person in the back seat to get out. I do not like bucket seats. If you have a long seat across the front, it is so nice for a place to put a purse, road map, a sweater, packages or two other persons. I do not like stick shifts. Power steering [she means automatic transmission] takes all this grinding of the gears out of your hands. Try it, you'll like it.