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Agreed, but I am not sure how receptive small cars are in the Americas just from a practicality point of view. I've sat in many vans/sedans and they feel much m

Agreed, but I am not sure how receptive small cars are in the Americas just from a practicality point of view. I've sat in many vans/sedans and they feel much more cramped. My family tends to have a significantly smaller frame and we still feel cramped. I cannot imagine a typical American family fitting comfortably in there for a 10+ hr roadtrip.

romwell 8y ago
>I cannot imagine a typical American family fitting comfortably in there for a 10+ hr roadtrip. From my experience, a Honda Fit is more than enough for 2 people + more stuff than two people may possibly need for a week-long road trip. And it's the same length as a VW Beetle New. The average US household size is about 2.5[1], and the median is 2[2]. Again, to emphasize: over half the country are either living by themselves, or with one other person. So, a typical American family would do well with a subcompact. [1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-households-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h... [2]https://www.statista.com/statistics/242189/disitribution-of-households-in-the-us-by-household-size/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/242189/disitribution-of-...
thucydidesofusa 8y ago
Curious. I'm a large person - 6'4" and I weight train extensively and my experience has been that pickup trucks and cars are the only vehicles that can comfortably fit in. And I'm usually in agreement with other large people. CUVs have a squished passenger compartment and the seating is very high off the floor pan. 4 people like me could comfortably fit inside a Corolla or a Civic but not a RAV4 or CRV. My hunch is the CUVs have some amazing appeal for people who don't want hassle in general and don't care about the additional costs. And some people think they're cool. It's easier to grab stuff out of the back of a SUV than rummage through a sedan's trunk although they're comparably voluminous And if your knees are weak, it's nice to shimmy into a CUV than squat into a car. But you see so many people with large guts schlepping themselves into CUVs and scraping their carcases out of the seats they're sweat-welded too and the things loose their cool image. And you can run winter tires and get your accord through the snowy and icy weather or you can just pay the extra money for AWD and let Jesus take the wheel as needed.

romwell 8y ago

>I cannot imagine a typical American family fitting comfortably in there for a 10+ hr roadtrip. From my experience, a Honda Fit is more than enough for 2 people + more stuff than two people may possibly need for a week-long road trip. And it's the same length as a VW Beetle New. The average US household size is about 2.5[1], and the median is 2[2]. Again, to emphasize: over half the country are either living by themselves, or with one other person. So, a typical American family would do well with a subcompact. [1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-households-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h... [2]https://www.statista.com/statistics/242189/disitribution-of-households-in-the-us-by-household-size/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/242189/disitribution-of-...

thucydidesofusa 8y ago

Curious. I'm a large person - 6'4" and I weight train extensively and my experience has been that pickup trucks and cars are the only vehicles that can comfortably fit in. And I'm usually in agreement with other large people. CUVs have a squished passenger compartment and the seating is very high off the floor pan. 4 people like me could comfortably fit inside a Corolla or a Civic but not a RAV4 or CRV. My hunch is the CUVs have some amazing appeal for people who don't want hassle in general and don't care about the additional costs. And some people think they're cool. It's easier to grab stuff out of the back of a SUV than rummage through a sedan's trunk although they're comparably voluminous And if your knees are weak, it's nice to shimmy into a CUV than squat into a car. But you see so many people with large guts schlepping themselves into CUVs and scraping their carcases out of the seats they're sweat-welded too and the things loose their cool image. And you can run winter tires and get your accord through the snowy and icy weather or you can just pay the extra money for AWD and let Jesus take the wheel as needed.