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When you start describing midsize family sedans as 'small cars' you cross the line into clickbait.

• madengr 11y ago
  Midsize family sedans have absurdly small interiors these days. Maybe it's the horribly large dash boards, but they just have no room. I hate them.
  • mywittyname 11y ago
    The Malibu is quite big on the inside. I owed an Aura (same platform) and there was enough room in the back that they could have easily had reclining rear seats. It had a good 28' of leg room with me driving.
  • csours 11y ago
    A lot of space is used up on safety equipment. As one small example A-Pillars (at the edges of the windshield) are very large to incorporate the safety cage, rollover protection, and airbags. [1] This leads to a weird problem where the car is very safe in a crash, but slightly more likely to get in an accident due to visibility issues. There are existing lane change warning systems for rear visibility, I expect there will soon be forward sensing systems as well; and of course SDCs are coming as well. Seats also take up a significant amount of room - partly to safety considerations, but also a bit to lazy design. 1. http://wardsauto.com/news-analysis/new-pillars-enhance-safety-impede-visibility http://wardsauto.com/news-analysis/new-pillars-enhance-safet...
• thescriptkiddie 11y ago
  Not sure why you're getting downvoted. The malibu is certainly not a small car.
• ptaipale 11y ago
  You assessment is perhaps a bit harsh, but I don't think it deserves the downvotes. The Chevy Malibu is not a small car. In Europe the design was sold as Opel Vectra/Signum which was actually a "large family car" by European standards. It's the largest sedan that GM sold under the European Opel/Vauxhall badges; to get a bigger car, you got a minivan.