Based on a real argument
Hong Kong, In a mansion at the Victoria Peak area, 2025
It cannot be said for most people in this era, but Li Hoi Ting and Arthur Newell are living an extraordinarily good life by all counts
Since her promotion to the CFO of one of the most prominent healthcare companies in Asia, Li Hoi Ting (Her foreign colleagues call her Angela), she is now a member of the 0.01% club in terms of wealth and power. Her Husband Arth isn’t quite up there with her, but his income from being a top real estate agent is still a number most people cannot even begin to imagine.
It’s a sunny day on the weekend, and Arthur just went back home from dropping their kid at the Piano class, at a time where most kids in other parts of the world would have a nice, relaxing day off from school. After this class, he also has a violin class and a “Gentlemen’s Etiquette” class on the same day. Quite a bit of work for a 8-year old kid, but quite typical of an uber-elite Asian based family like this.
“You know, our kid really has grown up.” Says Angela Li, lying on a designer’s deckchair beside the luxury swimming pool in their mansion.
“For sure, I remember the time where he couldn’t even play the piece that even a regular university student can play, but now he can almost play every Paganini pieces.”
“Still a long way to go though.”
As good as their lives are, they still have something quite important missing.
“We’ve talked about this many times already, but isn’t it about time we get that sorted?”
“Get what sorted?”
“You know, the fact that you have like 10 cars, but…”
“…none of them is practical enough now”
“Yeah.”
While he has lived in HK for decades at this point, his childhood in the UK still makes him a car enthusiast at heart. This is why Arthur has a collection of cars, ranging from classics to modern supercars. However, none of cars in Arthur’s collection remotely has any kind of practicality, and the most practical car in his collection is a two-seater Sendo Friesia.
Even at one of the highest level private schools in HK, everytime Arthur pulls up in the Friesia to pick his child up, he bathes in the jealous glare of other parents. This however won’t last much longer.
“Your Sendo, it wouldn’t even fit his spare violin, and you know that he at least need 2 spare violins, 4 spare bows, 20 textbooks and one of our maids for helping him with his instruments!”
”No, I totally agree. So we should get something that is Luxurious…”
“Has enough space…”
“Opulent enough for us…”
“Makes others jealous…”
“So we should get-”
“We should totally get-”
“A Luxury Sedan!”
“A Luxury MPV!”
“…”
“With a sedan, we won’t have the space! All my friends at the company have luxury minivans for this reason!” Angela is quite insistant on having a luxury MPV.
“But while they’re big, minivans use cheap components for their chassis! So they do not hold a candle to the luxury sedans in terms of being good to drive!”
“The new ones are really good though! I’ve been in so many of my friend’s MPVs, and we definitely need one!”
“I really want something with a V8 or V12 though, and its not like they don’t have space, we can totally make it work…”
Suddenly, the doorbell rang.
“Shoot! I forgot Will is coming over!”
Both couples rushed downstairs to the main gate and welcomed their old friend, William.
“Long time no see! I heard you two are arguing about something?”
“Ahaha, don’t worry about it, we are just discussing about what new car should we buy.”
“Oh?”
Angela and Arthur explained their own viewpoints to William.
“Hmm, that’s definitely a bit of a dilemma, since the practicality is pretty important, but it’s also hard to give up the presteige of a top level sedan…what about SUVs?”
“SUVs? You mean those entry level luxury crossovers that every middle class family has?”
“Hahaha, I couldn’t imagine you guys driving something cheap like that. What I’m talking about is one of those SUVs for chauffering, with the 4 seats and everything. It has a lot of space, but they also drive pretty good.”
The couple seems to be moved with this idea, as they both went silent and thought for a bit.
“But MPVs still have more space though.”
”But sedans still drive better than SUVs.”
“Man, you two are as stubborn as always.”
It is your job to come up with a vehicle that can fulfill this matter. Realistically (No, we don’t want a 600hp V12 Minivan), you cannot have something that fulfills both of their requirements perfectly well, so it will be all about comprimises.
You will be allowed 3 different body types for this challenge: MPV, SUV and Sedan.
Each body type has their own merits and downfalls, with SUV being more or less the middle ground.
See the ruleset in the post below.
