The Compass is a brilliant symbol of that disintegration, with its useless, part-time, go-nowhere 4×4 system, naff styling and cheapo interior. And the fact that when you follow one, the arches hang over the wheels like a fat girl’s bingo wings.
Fiat re-invents the box by making it massively less useful to actual human beings who aren’t looking for a conversion that includes a hydraulic ramp.
Highly derided are its ‘storage solutions’ that include pockets that only fit two slim CD cases (useful for those with very limited CD collections) and cubbies on the dash cunningly designed to launch your mobile phone through the passenger side window during cornering.
Let us also not forget the massive headroom so helpful for those with Victorian hat fetishes