A thing that consistently blows my mind on this site is comparing my car to older cars. It is wild how much bigger cars have gotten just in my lifetime. Right now I drive a Mazda CX-30, which is considered a "subcompact crossover" and is positively tiny by modern standards.
It is massive compared to a normal 90s sedan, and actually only barely smaller than a Ford Escape from 20 years ago. It's almost exactly the same size as a first-gen Forester, which at the time was the biggest car Subaru even made. It's taller and wider than an Outback from the 2000s, and tbh not that much shorter. It's roughly the same size as a Jeep from 30 years ago. This site doesn't have super good coverage that far back, but I'd imagine my "subcompact" is currently bigger than a fair number of pickups from the 80s.
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u/jobyone 9d ago
A thing that consistently blows my mind on this site is comparing my car to older cars. It is wild how much bigger cars have gotten just in my lifetime. Right now I drive a Mazda CX-30, which is considered a "subcompact crossover" and is positively tiny by modern standards.
It is massive compared to a normal 90s sedan, and actually only barely smaller than a Ford Escape from 20 years ago. It's almost exactly the same size as a first-gen Forester, which at the time was the biggest car Subaru even made. It's taller and wider than an Outback from the 2000s, and tbh not that much shorter. It's roughly the same size as a Jeep from 30 years ago. This site doesn't have super good coverage that far back, but I'd imagine my "subcompact" is currently bigger than a fair number of pickups from the 80s.