Setting Standards
The next time I buy a car (hopefully, at least a yesr or two off), I'm taking a 17-inch computer monitor to the dealership with me. I will not purchase another vehicle with a trunk into which I can not easily load an object of that size. The trunk of a 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier is probably large enough in volume, but the trunk opening is for crap. I'll be looking real close at hatchbacks and mini-wagons next time around.
Mazda. I've managed to fir the most incredibly things into the trunk/backseat of my 1999 Mazda Protege. The back seats fold down into the trunk compartment and it is JUST SPLENDID. I consider it my own personal TARDIS. My 1991 Cavalier had it's points, but when I went to trade up, they'd redesigned the car to the point that my head brushed the ceiling -- and I'm simply not THAT tall.
Mazda (it's been a damn good little car, too, considering my luck with cars to date).
Consider a PT Cruiser. It's really a mini mini-
van. Lemme see ..... does that make it a micro-
van or a nanovan?