It is usually best practice to buy a car that fits your life, not one that you have to rearrange to fit. Sometimes, however, this is not how it works. Sometimes your love for a car is so deep and so deep that you are willing to bother yourself and occasionally your family and friends to make the relationship work.
I can’t say that I personally have a great example in this history of car ownership, quite briefly, although I will say that the Fiesta ST I currently drive is definitely the closest answer I have received to this question. Yes, it’s a four-door hatchback, which seems pretty practical at first. At this point, though, I’ve done enough cross-country trips that destroy vertebrae and wholesale stores to know that a car is a little also small and hard can be very uncomfortable in those key moments when you need to be something other than. At least it tends to get me out of designated driver positions, because no one wants to get stuck in the back seat.
My answer want but to have this question is none other than GR Yaris. I would like nothing more than an even smaller and less practical hatchback to ruin my life, for the simple reason that it is a special one for homologating the rally. I would put up with all the shit if only Toyota would give me a chance.
So, what absolutely impractical and inhospitable car did you try to live with and how did you make this flawed relationship work?