1.2 cm? You know which body parts grow much faster?

The hair!

😇

The length is bad but the 0.5cm extra width per year strikes me as much worse. There's a lot of room for longer vehicles than the average cars of yesteryear - vans and light trucks have always been around. But those vehicles tended to only be slightly wider, if at all, in order to fit into lanes on the road, parking spaces, through gateways and so on. Half a centimetre wider per year is insane.

Not sure about the accuracy of this, my car is still the same length as it was ten years ago.

To be fair, people have been complaining that here are too many cars in the cities for a long time. By making the cars bigger you naturally decrease the number of cars per area!

Just like my dick

And nails

Mine got 8cm shorter when the rear bumper fell off. So, it's safer.

If they're going to make these cars that grow longer every year, are they also going to build garages that get longer too? In my day, cars stayed the same length for the whole time you owned them. I suppose it's good for parents that have growing teenagers and need more leg room in the back.

Consumer appeal for bigger vehicles tracks with historical weight gain.

Cars do not grow. Don't listen to this guy. My car is the same size as when I bought it.

Stop giving it junk food.

Don't you water it regularly?

Some of this is safety equipment and more recently batteries and hybrid equipment, which takes up space. Some of this is simply design and aesthetics.

I don't think that's very typical

At least the front didn't fall off.

Liar.

It's called "American creep".

A lot is extra safety features. It would be illegal to sell the original mini today.

I would hope countries will just stop approving cars as road legal if they are too wide to fit on the roads.

I do occasionally see the odd range rover in the Netherlands. It's always hilariously out of place, and of course does not fit in any single parking space here. But they have to drive around with a special license plate for import vehicles, apparently it's fine then.

Also, the number of burglaries in new Hampshire is dropping as there are less and less kids named Johnny

I have a car that hasn't grown any longer, but it has grown taller.

There are loads here, and I immediately think that whoever's driving it is a bad person.

I remember that my parents car still didn't have seat belts in the back when I was a kid...

My hybrid Suzuki Ignis (ugliest car on the planet) is smaller than my Suzuki Swift, which is supposed to be a small car.

Same, my father's car (Citroën GS) had no seat belt in the back...

The Pontiac Aztec is uglier.

Beauty is in the eye of the SUV holder

Where's "here"?

You can work it out from my other posts but I don't go around advertising it when I can help it...

Mine is a smart car. I need a pill to make it grow into a suburban.

Sometimes it's not growing by itself. Don't put too much pressure on that issue and enjoy just the other aspects of it.

The Aztec isn't even close to the ugliest car ever made. It's a meme at this point.

I imagine you driving.

There are a lot more car brands in Europe than most regions so generalizations are a bit less useful. I wonder who the outliers would be?

How about the dumbshits that import Ram trucks there? Recently read an article about it. I dunno how any of you guys could drive our pickup trucks at all there.

Maybe you need to invite in China’s “belt and road” people to cinch in that extra width.

Safety for occupants, not those outside

This just illustrates the importance of hiring a professional to trim back the cars periodically. You could do it yourself, but the heavy industrial equipment necessary for routine gardening like this is just too bulky and expensive for the average person to be able to use.

Water? Not for AI datacenters? In this economy?

Does this mean cars have plate tectonics?

What are they feeding them?!

mcchickens

Not entirely, a lot of the required curves are for pedestrians. Anything curved has less internal volume.

I have a small Peugeot e-208. You don’t need some massive SUV to go electric. Renault 5 is another small example. There are electric sedans available too.

There's something very fishy about this claim, I happen to own a European car from the year 2000 so I just went out to the garage and measured it, just to be sure, and it's still exactly the same length as it was when it was brand new.

Did you make sure not to use the cars built-in measurement utility? That would have grown too, you know…

I thought it was more of a grower vs shower dynamic?

My car really is from the year 2000, far too old to have any built-in measurement utility.

Damn… it got to the external ones too.