11-04-2024, 02:54 PM
(11-04-2024, 01:26 PM)Steve Bryant Wrote: My "modern" is a 1989 Volvo 740 estate, which I consider to be a medium sized car. In its day it was considered to be a fairly large car. Not any more. Here in Canada everything is getting grotesquely big. The Volvo is low enough that it disappears in a parking lot as everything is larger and taller. i don't understand the need for pick up trucks with 500HP that the bonnet is higher than the roof of my car and so long that they will not fit in parking stalls.
Where I work I have to test drive customers cars after tune ups etc. and since almost all the cars are British sports cars or Classic Minis I find that I am dwarfed by so-called regular sized cars such that I often wonder if they see me. Anything the size of a Seven or Classic Mini has to be driven in modern traffic with all the defense mechanisms you can muster.
Cheers,
Stephen
Agreed. In the last six months I have seen a Porsche 928 and a 90's cadillac in traffic and both times was struck by how small they were compared to the various trucks and SUV's around them. I would never have considered either to be small cars until then.