There’s something very fishy about this claim, I happen to own a European car from the year 2000 so I just went out to the garage and measured it, just to be sure, and it’s still exactly the same length as it was when it was brand new.
Did you make sure not to use the cars built-in measurement utility? That would have grown too, you know…
My car really is from the year 2000, far too old to have any built-in measurement utility.
Damn… it got to the external ones too.
Did you measure from the car’s asshole?
Not only longer but also wider and taller… it’s an obesity pandemic that has blown over from the US.
Can someone prescribe some ozempic to these cars?
What are they feeding them?!
mcchickens
Does this mean cars have plate tectonics?
Not sure about the accuracy of this, my car is still the same length as it was ten years ago.
Mine got 8cm shorter when the rear bumper fell off. So, it’s safer.
I don’t think that’s very typical
At least the front didn’t fall off.
I imagine you driving.
Stop giving it junk food.
Mine is a smart car. I need a pill to make it grow into a suburban.
I have a car that hasn’t grown any longer, but it has grown taller.
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.
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.
There are loads here, and I immediately think that whoever’s driving it is a bad person.
Where’s “here”?
You can work it out from my other posts but I don’t go around advertising it when I can help it…
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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.
Oh yes actually it’s ram trucks I was thinking of, I dont think range rovers are that absurdly big. Still big, just less.
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.
I have a small Peugeot e-208. You don’t need some massive SUV to go electric. Renault 5 is another small example. There are electric sedans available too.
My hybrid Suzuki Ignis (ugliest car on the planet) is smaller than my Suzuki Swift, which is supposed to be a small car.
The Pontiac Aztec is uglier.
Beauty is in the eye of the SUV holder
The Aztec isn’t even close to the ugliest car ever made. It’s a meme at this point.
The Aztec had the PT cruiser existing at the same time to make sure it wasn’t the ugliest car.
And I happened to think they were both cool as a kid. A split window in the rear? An unnecessarily large grill like old studebakers? Why not! More hot wheels fodder. The pt cruiser interior was also very comfy.
1.2 cm? You know which body parts grow much faster?
The hair!
😇
And nails
Consumer appeal for bigger vehicles tracks with historical weight gain.
Also, the number of burglaries in new Hampshire is dropping as there are less and less kids named Johnny
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!
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.
It’s called “American creep”.
A lot is extra safety features. It would be illegal to sell the original mini today.
Safety for occupants, not those outside
Not entirely, a lot of the required curves are for pedestrians. Anything curved has less internal volume.
I remember that my parents car still didn’t have seat belts in the back when I was a kid…
Same, my father’s car (Citroën GS) had no seat belt in the back…
Just like my dick
Liar.
