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Originally Posted by euromodder
Then comes the question : how often are those back seats actually used ?
Flip them down, and cargo space is a fair bit bigger.
When transporting kids, they usually love the Mini despite the back seats ...
For a lot of people, something the size of the Mini or a Fiesta is big enough for the largest part of their everyday use.
For the few % of time / miles that it isn't big enough : put a hitch on it, and get a trailer. Far more efficient than driving a vehicle that's sized for what is an a-typical use.
We seem to have forgotten that this is the size of car that many of our (grand)parents used for well, just about everything.
Not everyone drove a battleship back in the days ...
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Really.
The thread is about us car production.
In the us my grandparents drove very big cars.
The size of european cars was determined by:
1. the size of the roads
2. the need to travel distances.
The size of cars in us was determined by ....surprise, the same thing.