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Originally Posted by mcrews
But let me go back to the beginning.
90% of all towns and cities that exist in europe were built and finished by 1900. the size of the roads in the towns were set.
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And in the posher areas, people are still driving (or perhaps having their chauffeurs drive) Rolls, Bentleys, the larger BMWs and Mercedes, Land & Range Rovers, etc, and parking them on those narrow streets. So it's perfectly possible to operate large cars in those small streets.
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90% of all towns and roads that exist in the US were still in development......we were still an Ag economy.
but to follow your point. Cars in the US got big because the could. Cars in europe got small because the had to.
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It doesn't follow that because something CAN be done, that it will be done. At about the same time that US cars started metastasizing, there were people working on flying cars, amphibious cars, personal helicopters, and much else.
We could also note that even the largest American cars don't approach the legal limits of what can be driven on the roads, so evidently there was an upper limit...
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Land is at a premium in the cities in europe. (much like New York) having a garage to put a car in was unheard of.
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And why on earth would anyone put a car in a garage? Garages are for storing stuff - ever heard of a garage sale that sold cars?