Phones have gotten way bigger again
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There was a very quick 180 on phone size when folks figured out they could be used for porn
I would agree, if the aspect ratio for those big phones was still 16:9, but its not. These long ass phones are made for doom scrolling.
Doom scrolling porn?
Praise be!
Things we hold get smaller. Things we fit inside get bigger.
That sounds like a double entendre
Like your mum.
This is comparing a 3 series sedan with an SUV though. The closest modern analog to the E30 would be the 1 series, and while it’s larger and heavier it’s also more fuel efficient, faster, and safer.
The closest equivalent to the 3 series would be a 3 series since it showcases how much bigger got.
Though a lot of that size increase is due to better safety tech, better crumple zones, so OP isnt very intelligent with this critique, the ford F150 comparisons are more apt.
Yes but the image is of an X3 I think so certainly not an apple to apple comparison.
This is what I would expect to see. This graphic is a crap comparison.
What? Theywent from portable PC/phone to even more portable PC/phone. The same way they went from shit car for assholes to more shitty car for assholes.
That old e30(?) Is a badass car. Yes BMW are generally wankers, but don't hate the Chariot.
Not only are modern cars huge, they're fuckin' ugly as well. I can't stand the "aggressive" look every car, truck, and SUV has nowadays. Sorry, but Mom's minivan does not need to look "aggressive". That thing is lucky to even reach a high speed to warrant such a look. The shapes of cars nowadays look like hideous blobs, especially most SUVs. Taillights taking up the whole rear end, weird headlight placement (who the fuck designed the Nissan Juke?) and other design choices that make the car look uglier every generation.
I know it's because of studies showing people like "aggressive" cars (because people are fucking stupid, it isn't aggressive if every car is aggressive) and aerodynamics are why cars look like blobs, but I sure miss when cars actually looked like cars. That died out in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Hyundai Ioniq 5, Hyundai Vision 74 (just a concept for now)
These 2 look really nice.
The i20 looks nice 2 in my opinion and my Hyundai i40CW is probably the best looking car of it's generation in its category
In reallity we all want smaller phones though
Exactly the image I thought of.
Bless you, and all your generations to come, oh wide and sagacious one!
The US has to fix the fuel efficiency laws so that small trucks don't have huge environmental fees associated with them. So many contractors and others who need a truck but don't want a modern behemoth would benefit.
You mean like a Kei Truck?
I think they're so cute. Like they are out of a Lightning McQueen manga.
YES PLEASE. You can even make it electric. I just want a small truck with a full size bed. I don't need all the other shit these overpriced monstrosities come with.
But they're essentially illegal. CAFE standards are based on vehicle footprint since the late 2000s (you know - when they suddenly quit making small trucks). As the standards get stricter they just make trucks bigger to keep from failing to meet CAFE.
Ok, besides comparing wrong things (for comedic effect no doubt), what tf is that laptop from ... 1999?
Wouldn't knowledge about crumple zones and need for space for things like airbags, make cars bigger?
Not saying that is the main reason, but size reduction may not be a factor to focus on its own, right?
No, vehicles have gotten larger because of the same problem as most of the issues in the United States: politics!
You see automobile manufacturers have to meet an average fuel economy across their entire fleet under the CAFE (Corporate average fuel economy) act of 1975. CAFE was a good idea as it forced the auto industry into actually improving on fuel economy year after year throughout their entire fleet or be met with steep fines for ever 0.1mpg off the target.
In 2011 CAFE was changed which directly caused the auto market we have today. See in 2011 the formula on how you'd calculate your fleet's avarage MPG got changed to now factor in vehicle footprint as a variable which auto manufactures quickly caught on to mean the larger a vehicle is the smaller their entire fleet's MPG has to be.
On top of that in 2012 "medium-duty trucks" was added as their own category with a lower MPG requirement meaning if your truck or SUV fell into that category then you would have a smaller MPG target for your entire fleet.
Now put yourself into the shoes of an early 2010s auto manufacture, would you rather design small and light vehicles that require you to meet a pretty high fuel economy level across your entire product range or would you inflate the size of your vehicles and move all R&D into finding ways to get your entire fleet classified as a medium-duty truck/SUV with a smaller MPG requirement? Of course you are going to take the latter.
The changes to CAFE in the 2010s killed small vehicles as we knew it. Ensured light duty trucks stayed dead domestically built or chicken tax be dammed. Caused the explosion of crossover SUVs to flood the market. All while making vehicles more dangerous and worse for the environment.
Thank you.
I am not from North America. I'm in India.
Here, the average car has generally increased in size a bit, but doesn't seem to be going too big. There are larger cars and they are indeed increasing in number, but due to our mixed traffic and high traffic density it is not that popular.
Nah, we still make compact cars similar in size with the same safety features to econoboxes from 40 years ago. Like houses, people want more room in their vehicles than they had with the smaller cars plus some other misinformed choices like thinking bigger and taller means safer.
Plus along with the older small cars we also had the giant boats that got single digit mpg. It wasn't like they were all small in the past.
Pretty stupid to compare a sedan and an SUV. Not a good way to get people to see your point.
Many normal car models are now SUVs though, at least in Europe.
Aren’t modern vehicles more fuel efficient though, despite being bigger? Imagine if we kept them the same size and still improved their efficiency.
Imagine if we kept them the same size and still improved their efficiency
Well, we did! In Europe.
And I'm pretty sure the selection of compact BMWs has only grown in those years.
Ahhh yes, because the 2 series doesn't exist.
The 2 series is now ~180 inches long (about the same as the first generation bmw x3) and ~3900 pounds ~~(significantly heavier than the first generation x3)~~ (about the same as the first generation bmw x3).
I think this is more referring to the trend of larger vehicles becoming more popular and not any specific car model.
Man, I want that chunky laptop.
not only does it have a larger battery... it also uses up that battery 10 times faster while doing 100 times less work :')
I would really like to have modern laptops at like double/triple the size for more battery space though, why can't we have a normal laptop that lasts like a week on a charge?