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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Compared to an 1965 Oldsmobile "98" we had in the '70s, or even my stretch F250 longbed, cars are absolutely miniscule today.
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The best-selling car in Brazil in '65 was the VW Beetle, which is quite small, and the Brazilian market much more oriented toward small cars than in the United States and Canada. I grew up mostly around small cars, and some newer cars which are now sold as compacts are noticeably larger than the smaller models of their manufacturers 10 years ago. Even the Japanese automakers, despite still making their compacts slightly less than 1.70m wide.