The last of the walk throughs?

[DSdriver]

The Citroen DS with its fwd and column change is great for parking close to walls because you can just slide across and exit through the passenger door. It is also famous (often wrongly) for being the FIRST production car to have lots of stuff. e.g. steering headlamps, Rolls Royce suspension, draughty windows. But was it the LAST production car to not have a tunnel or a gear lever impeding your lateral exit?

Rule 1. Milk floats don't count.

 

[barrett]

Surely you could do the same thing in an Ami Huit and they lasted a few years after the D.

[Station]

Even my Whizzkid had a tunnel? Why? Is it for structural integrity?

My MR2's tunnel is about a foot high, the gearbox levers/cables are on the top, and not sure what is underneath. Deffo like the idea of bench seats.

[DSdriver]

Surely you could do the same thing in an Ami Huit and they lasted a few years after the D.

Yep, you're right. OK we're on our way, any advance on 1978?

[Junkman]

All Bristols let you do that. They have a tunnel, yes, but they don't have consoles.

The last really tunnelless car I know is the 'trelle, which was still being built in 1992, thus even surviving the Wartburg by a year.

[londonm]

G Wiz, probably still being made. I win.

[Micrashed]

Mrs Sheds C8 doesnt have an annoying tunnel, gear lever or handbrake betwixt driver and passenger.

[Negative Creep]

Honda FRV?

 

[bub2006]

My Picasso on a y plate had a flat floor and was easy to get across and into back seats too

[overrun]

Just today I had to scamper over the passenger seat/armrest/gearstick/centre console rubbish that is in my Mondeo, to reach the drivers seat, thanks to some considerate* parking by the balloon in the next space.

 

It is usually easier than this. I blame me bad knee. Although, not as easy as my Escort.

 

Car companies are clearly in league with the chiropractors.

[Negative Creep]

The Merc has proved to me that every car should have an armrest as standard

[overrun]

The Merc has proved to me that every car should have an armrest as standard

Church!

 

I have a nice elbow dent going on in mine.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

You can pretty much walk through the back of a Rolls-Royce Phantom.

[oman5]

Transit van. 

MAN TGA

Merc actros megaspace

volvo fh12

[Jim Bergerac]

Lot of US shite would be walkthroughs as well, I'd think. I remember those gopping late-nineties/early noughties Ford Tauruses/Mercury Sables had a front bench available and were probably not alone amongst US stuff of the era.

[twosmoke300]

The first of the 2000 onwards honda civics had a flat floor and no center console

[trigger]

I recall the first Honda CRV's being the same with column shift transmissions, which was great fun!

[twosmoke300]

Just the autos iirc

[chaseracer]

Surely you could do the same thing in an Ami Huit and they lasted a few years after the D.

 

2CV (same oily bits) went until mid-1990, but Junkman's right about the R4 lasting longer.

[Station]

Estima?

[mercrocker]

I haven't tried a Hindustan Ambassador but you could hold a barn dance in the front of my Cowley, gearbox underfloor and column change.  Maybe they at least kept the floor height when they  filled it full of rice grinder?

[RichardMoss]

Chrysler Voyagers have a flat floor and thanks to the column change on the autos you can walk through from the front into the rear and out through the sliding side door - very handy.

 

they'll also take an 8x4 sheet of plywood with the rear seats removed (well, on the Grand version anyway)