Love your 7

[Bob Culver]

Owners of modern cars (made in the last 40 years) have been denied the close company of the front seat passenger. Few cars match the intimacy of Seven directly (reaching for the choke in an RP could get your face slapped, and the handbrake in all) but bench seats without the enormous console, with column change, and no seat belts encouraged closeness. It was common to follow cars with two occupying little more than the drivers seat.
(I think the Seven closeness was to enable conversation).