2 hoursThere are a lot more car brands in Europe than most regions so generalizations are a bit less useful. I wonder who the outliers would be?
- Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish6 hours
Cars do not grow. Don’t listen to this guy. My car is the same size as when I bought it.
- hakunawazo@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Sometimes it’s not growing by itself. Don’t put too much pressure on that issue and enjoy just the other aspects of it.
- hakunawazo@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Sometimes it’s not growing by itself. Don’t put too much pressure on that issue and enjoy just the other aspects of it.
- Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyzEnglish7 hours
Not sure about the accuracy of this, my car is still the same length as it was ten years ago.
- P00ptart@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Mine is a smart car. I need a pill to make it grow into a suburban.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish7 hours
Mine got 8cm shorter when the rear bumper fell off. So, it’s safer.
- CADmonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
I have a car that hasn’t grown any longer, but it has grown taller.
- FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish7 hours
The length is bad but the 0.5cm extra width per year strikes me as much worse. There’s a lot of room for longer vehicles than the average cars of yesteryear - vans and light trucks have always been around. But those vehicles tended to only be slightly wider, if at all, in order to fit into lanes on the road, parking spaces, through gateways and so on. Half a centimetre wider per year is insane.
- ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish50 minutes
Maybe you need to invite in China’s “belt and road” people to cinch in that extra width.
- Ghoelian@piefed.socialEnglish6 hours
I would hope countries will just stop approving cars as road legal if they are too wide to fit on the roads.
I do occasionally see the odd range rover in the Netherlands. It’s always hilariously out of place, and of course does not fit in any single parking space here. But they have to drive around with a special license plate for import vehicles, apparently it’s fine then.
- 2 hours
How about the dumbshits that import Ram trucks there? Recently read an article about it. I dunno how any of you guys could drive our pickup trucks at all there.
- FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish5 hours
There are loads here, and I immediately think that whoever’s driving it is a bad person.
- FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish4 hours
You can work it out from my other posts but I don’t go around advertising it when I can help it…
- 6 hours
Some of this is safety equipment and more recently batteries and hybrid equipment, which takes up space. Some of this is simply design and aesthetics.
My hybrid Suzuki Ignis (ugliest car on the planet) is smaller than my Suzuki Swift, which is supposed to be a small car.
- P00ptart@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
The Aztec isn’t even close to the ugliest car ever made. It’s a meme at this point.
A lot is extra safety features. It would be illegal to sell the original mini today.
- GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgEnglish5 hours
I remember that my parents car still didn’t have seat belts in the back when I was a kid…
- eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish7 hours
If they’re going to make these cars that grow longer every year, are they also going to build garages that get longer too? In my day, cars stayed the same length for the whole time you owned them. I suppose it’s good for parents that have growing teenagers and need more leg room in the back.
- homoludens@feddit.orgEnglish7 hours
To be fair, people have been complaining that here are too many cars in the cities for a long time. By making the cars bigger you naturally decrease the number of cars per area!
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish7 hours
Consumer appeal for bigger vehicles tracks with historical weight gain.
- thejml@sh.itjust.worksEnglish6 hours
Also, the number of burglaries in new Hampshire is dropping as there are less and less kids named Johnny
