@MrLee Maybe outside the US, but Conversion Vans, or large station wagons were the rage here in middle of the state.

I spent a lot of time in them in carpools to/from school from 1978 - 1986 or so, then when I could drive it was a full size pickup truck that was as old as I was.

The Ford verison of the vans were 5,253 mm long, with a wb 3,505.2 mm and were 2,011.7–2,143.8 mm tall and 2,029 mm wide. A golf was an oddity in middle class america.

The attitude about bike riders has changed.