You last paragraph describes my needs. I'm also single but do, on occasion, have my landlady in the car as well, and sometimes her daughter in the back - or someone I'm rushing to hospital... so I don't really care about the headroom of the backseat at all. But it must have one. A friend down in Pattaya has just bought himself a top-tier CX-7 because "it was only 100,000 k more than the five I went there to look at" to replace his 18(?) year-old Mitsubishi seven-seater thing which has done f all miles. He was also offered - and took - a "stupid price" for a C-3 for his wife to replace her aging Nissan March but there's a five month wait on it. My Almera is very frugal on the juice, being light and with a small engine (in the real world, I get about 700km per 42 liter tank) but the 15" wheels (195/65 profile, I updated from 185/70s for more footprint) don't take the potholes, construction, gravel, and dodgy road surfaces too well up here. In reality I want a compact suv with big wheels, with enough power for the mountains. Hence my choice for (non plug-in) hybrids that are also small enough to traverse the inner cities - although I've found it easier, once parked at my hotel, to just Bolt everywhere. My budget is also limited to under a million baht.
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