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Trend has been bigger exterior and smaller interior for a while, that is also why I prefer older vehicles, less forehead for same room inside.
Visibility is also better as is estimation of corners, that matters here as parking boxes are still painted at 70's size and then most of our cars were something that in US might been called supermini.
When I had Pontiac STW, I usually took two boxes as car was so much longer than those parking boxes, had to pay from two when staying at hotel and it did require more than 3 point turns at tiny underground hotel parking lots, so here this modern trend of making cars bigger outside and smaller from inside is issue in many ways.
If it would be possible to put that modern motor technology to pre 2000 vehicles it would probably make hugely economical vehicle, especially with aero mods, but all that is of course illegal or very very expensive.
Moden Nissan Micra is silly size, it is very tiny inside, hard to fit anything in it, same goes to Yaris, but at outside they are larger than my hobby car, but my hobby car fits 5 adults comfortably and their luggage, while in Yaris you don't fit 5 people comfortably and with 4 people you can't fit groceries or anything else to car, still it is very wide an tall vehicle with large cross section which means lot of drag naturally.
I don't understand very well why small car is made to look big and sometimes big with small interior as main point of having small car is that it would be small, easy to park and still has relatively good room.
Geo Metro has probably lot more usable room than new Micra, but I think new Micra is bigger and a lot heavier.
S80 Volvo and XC90 Volvo are especially good examples, I hit my head to door frame in those, feel cramped and when I unload work equipment from my car's trunk to either of those it becomes clear that my medium size car has more usable space in trunk than such large family car or SUV, that sounds insane, but that is what I have found out.
One silly thing is that new Ford Focus has more space at front seat than S80 Volvo, they are completely different class cars, it really should not be so, but it is.
I think that is something where car makers could gain advantage over other car makers, by actually giving car decent usable interior space instead of today standard trend of small interior with big roundy shapes that look stupid and steal lot of interior space, I mean who really needs plastic covering in trunk that takes 20cm from each side just to make it look pretty? That is total insanity, ridiculous or something,
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