Ever-decreasing spaces, yet we continue to make bigger cars
Bigger cars are clogging up our roads and parking spaces. Photo: Getty
I don’t think I’ve been at a car launch where a new vehicle has been smaller than the one it replaces.
Maybe I remember an Opel Astra from some years back being marginally tidier in dimension. And it did well for itself.
A bigger car creates a sense of more metal for your money – and you usually have to pay more money for it.
It is often driven, too, by having to accommodate new technology. There is a perfect logic to it all, I’m sure.
It just strikes me that, at a time of decreasing road and parking space for anything on four wheels, we should be making smaller and smaller cars.
That will probably come easier to electric vehicles if and when battery intensity permits a reasonable range.
In the meantime, we must negotiate bigger cars than we really need – how many one-occupant cars are there? – around narrow urban roads we could do with enlarging.
Yet, somehow I can’t see a carmaker boasting about the new “smaller” model just being launched can you?
