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Frankly I’d be embarrassed taking up so much space on the road. Driving a giant SUV or pickup is akin to manspreading spread-eagle on a crowded subway train.
i daily a 3000lb 2 door coupe im not afraid of big cars im afraid of people on their phones which is the actual issue.
Bummer, I was hoping I could compare different 4runner generations. Doesn’t look like they have any on the site right now.
Been using carsized.com for ages, great site.
People keep buying and buying at record paces these larger and larger vehicles.
Auto makers only produce what we buy
I have a Boxster and live in a somewhat congested area. Hate driving it during peak times because of the awful visibility with every other car being enormous.
It’s also a death trap knowing every other car weights 2x my car.
Really sucks, hate the SUV craze. Bad for consumers with spending, bad for the environment, bad for road quality, bad for collisions, no one really wins.
Gets even worse with pickup trucks now too.
Don’t show my wife this site. I told her the Supra was a “bigger car” than my old FR-S. Lies lies lies yeah…
Honda Accords are so god damn long dude, just got a model Y and it’s quite a bit shorter
This is what happens when people go to dealerships and say “why is this backseat so cramped?”
I don’t know anyone I enjoy the company of who drives a large car.
They’re exclusively for morons.
It’s cyclical and has everything to do with consumer taste.
Stupidly oversized American utes are everywhere in Australia now. So fuck you, US car industry, for sending them here.
fuck YOU for not sending us cool australian utes
Blame your country for liking them
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If you’re going to talk about how big cars are getting, you need to look at the generations side-by-side. Compare Tahoes to Tahoes: Tahoes are illustrative of little length gain from the '90s GMT400 to the early '10s GMT900 but show a not-insignificant increase in bumper/hood height, and the GMT900-GMT1YC shows a significantly higher hood and a more significant increase in size.
If the hood height was related to cooling system efficiency, the GMT900’s 8,500lb max towing capacity should be increased- but instead it decreased to 8,400lbs (and yes, I know the GMT900 wasn’t initially engineered to SAE J2807).
Whatever you do, don’t use the Lotus Elan to compare to anything modern.
I enjoyed smaller cars for years, with my favorite being a Civic Si, that was a fun car, miss it and still think about it from time to time. Now I drive a GMC Yukon (basically a Tahoe), dad life and all that. I will probably get downvoted for this sentiment, but once I got used to the size I fell in love with the Yukon. It’s big, powerful, comfortable, well appointed, and makes a sweet highway cruiser. And yes, I do feel safer putting my family in a large vehicle. It would be hard to go back to a smaller car at this point TBH. I ‘get it’ now and understand why large vehicles are so friggin’ popular, it’s just something about big V8s pushing 5,600lbs surprisingly quick that is more endearing than I had expected.
Driving ICE SUVs and crossovers bored me. Heavy as heck, slow, and unresponsive. Like you, I may get downvotes, I test drove an unpopular EV SUV that rhymes with ChinMast and holy shit I was breaking the law within seconds. The guy had to tell me to slow down multiple times and chuckled because no one is used to how fast it accelerates.
I’d definitely get an EV SUV that’s super comfortable if I had a big family. It’s easy to see how there are so many Model Y’s on the road now…
Driving ICE SUVs and crossovers bored me. Heavy as heck, slow, and unresponsive. Like you, I may get downvotes, I test drove an unpopular EV SUV that rhymes with ChinMast and holy shit I was breaking the law within seconds. The guy had to tell me to slow down multiple times and chuckled because no one is used to how fast it accelerates.
I’d definitely get an EV SUV that’s super comfortable if I had a big family. It’s easy to see how there are so many Model Y’s on the road now…
Of all the EVs out there the first one you drove was a VinFast? Those are awful.
A BMW 5 Series is 18" longer now than in the 80’s. They weighed 1160kgs.
The 80’s 5 Series was comparable in length to a modern 2 Series, but today’s 2 Series is still up by 600kgs.
A BMW 5 Series is 18" longer now than in the 80’s. They weighed 1160kgs.
The 80’s 5 Series was comparable in length to a modern 2 Series, but today’s 2 Series is still up by 600kgs.
I’m pleased to say that my Jimny has the same overall dimensions (l+w+h) and the same weight as the previous generation. Not everything is growing
Something that kills me is when people say “trucks haven’t actually gotten much larger, their length and width are the same”
Sure. But their volume has swelled drastically. They’re much taller and have very different total surface areas.
YES!! There are miles of sheet metal from the bottom of a truck’s body to the top of its bed or window sill. So much more than 20 years ago, it’s hideous. Yet people seem toove it.
That’s true. My head was about in the ceiling of my 97 f350. I have a foot of headroom in a new one. I’m not short either. I realize the old trucks are a little cramped for tall individuals, but today’s trucks are designed so someone that’s 6’-10" won’t need to make any modifications or compromises lol
Holy shit thank you for making this point because I feel like I am going insane. This sub has so many people that are now trucking SUV apologists. There are three or four specific users in specifically one who is absolutely proliferate in every single one of these threads cherry picking data to try to claim that trucks have not gotten larger. It’s like their full-time job or some thing. And it’s not even on the sub only. They will post in Ford subs truck subs everywhere declaring the trucks haven’t gotten bigger with cherry picked data. I think we all know who they are.