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I vaguely remember some quote from the 1990s along the lines of “if cars had had the same technological growth rate as computers, by now, they’d go bazillion kilometers with a drop of gasoline, had engines the size of sugar cubes, and would cost a penny and a half.”
The answer is a lot simpler: Small penis compensation.
This is comparing a 3 series sedan with an SUV though. The closest modern analog to the E30 would be the 1 series, and while it’s larger and heavier it’s also more fuel efficient, faster, and safer.
The closest equivalent to the 3 series would be a 3 series since it showcases how much bigger got.
Though a lot of that size increase is due to better safety tech, better crumple zones, so OP isnt very intelligent with this critique, the ford F150 comparisons are more apt.
Yes but the image is of an X3 I think so certainly not an apple to apple comparison.
This is what I would expect to see. This graphic is a crap comparison.
It’s a perfectly fine comparison, because people are buying them for the exact same thing. Just because they’ve been sorted into different categories for other reasons doesn’t change that.
Lol any method of transportation is just a different category with this logic
No, because all methods of transportation are not used for “the exact same thing”. If it was a 7 seater SUV, it would be a bad comparison, because that’s for carrying more people and must be larger. Same for a motorcycle. But it’s not, it’s a five seater car with a moderate trunk that people are buying for the exact same use case.
I just had to tow a U-Haul trailer with all of my furniture packed inside. A five seater car would not be able to do this.
You decided to do that, you didn’t have to. Since the trailer was rented out, you could have just as well rented out a U-Haul truck.
You represent a minority
You’re right, they’re not all used for transportation.
Yes I’m trolling a bit, one could argue a modern smart phone and the first cell phones are a bad comparison because they “aren’t used for the same thing” but that’s just needlessly pedantic.
In this case, I do think it’s fair to point out a crossover/suv being compared to a sedan is different enough to be a bad comparison, it’s not “Apples to Oranges” (why can’t fruit be compared?) but it is intentionally misleading for comparing cars of the same type when they’re not the same type and pointing at the size difference.
Yes it is very intentional, because the point is not to say, “look at this sedan and this suv”, the point is, “look at cars and how they are becoming bigger”, a major part of which is people unnecessarily buying bigger cars. It’s comparing the “average” car of the past to the “average” car today. In fact, if you were to compare sedans to sedans while trying to make that point, I say that would be disingenuous.
By example, if I was comparing computer storage though the ages, I wouldn’t compare magnetic tape to magnetic tape today, I’d compare it to ssds. And it wouldn’t be disingenuous because they’re different types of storage, because the point I’m making is about storage as a whole.
If SUVs are replacing sedans, I think it’s entirely fair to compare them.
- 25-year* difference
- 40-year* difference
What I’m about to type might come as a nitpick and missing the point so let me say this upfront: This post is very much true. Cars have gotten way too big and the loopholes in government laws and environmental regulations that allow this shit to happen need to be closed. Consumers should also be smarter and more diligent with their purchases.
With that said, there’s a small disparity with the car example. The car on the left (BMW 3 Series E30, I think) would be classified as a sedan. The car on the right (BMW X series, don’t know which specifically) would classified as an SUV, more specifically the (abysmal) crossover category.
They are the typical cat that sells in the time it’s build. The phones are technically a dumb phone Vs a smart phone and no-one said anything
The US has to fix the fuel efficiency laws so that small trucks don’t have huge environmental fees associated with them. So many contractors and others who need a truck but don’t want a modern behemoth would benefit.You mean like a Kei Truck?
I think they’re so cute. Like they are out of a Lightning McQueen manga.
I’d totally drive a Kei truck, I bet the fuel economy is great too. The big appeal for a light truck for me though is putting a cap on the back and keeping tools equipment back there, or going camping in it. Would make a decent van life experience in a pinch too. I used to have a Mazda B2000 like in the picture back in the 90s, easy to keep running and decent with gas, nothing but happy memories with it.
I bet the fuel economy is great too.
IIRC they can get like 40mpg. Which isn’t great in comparison to some cars, but for a truck it’s pretty fuckin good.
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Is it emissions or is it safety? B/c a lot of them don’t have the power for highway roads and lack basic safety (like seatbelts).
If it is emissions, it’s probably because it’s category-wrecking. They probably get pitted against other cars in a similar weight or wheelbase, and it’s designed to be far more utilitarian than most vehicles in that class.
YES PLEASE. You can even make it electric. I just want a small truck with a full size bed. I don’t need all the other shit these overpriced monstrosities come with.
But they’re essentially illegal. CAFE standards are based on vehicle footprint since the late 2000s (you know - when they suddenly quit making small trucks). As the standards get stricter they just make trucks bigger to keep from failing to meet CAFE.
Yes, that’s why I replied to a comment about the laws needing to change.
Are you implying they didn’t have minivans in the 80s, lol?
And the Chevrolet Suburban has been around since 1935.
Granted, it has gained over a ton in that timespan. But it hasn’t really gained much since 1973.
You can’t own any of the ones that got smallest in that comparison, while every single item on the opposite side was from an age of democracy with real autonomous citizens, and where every part of the device was publicly documented, and therefore totally yours to own, no terms, no conditions, no stalkerware.
What? Theywent from portable PC/phone to even more portable PC/phone. The same way they went from shit car for assholes to more shitty car for assholes.
That old e30(?) Is a badass car. Yes BMW are generally wankers, but don’t hate the Chariot.
Things we hold get smaller. Things we fit inside get bigger.
That sounds like a double entendre
Except the inside of today’s monster cars is just as small as ever.
The Delta is occupied by the stupid proofing systems.
And we sure do need a lot of that since people stopped using their brains.
Like your mum.
In reallity we all want smaller phones though
Eh, speak for yourself please
I love how this comment serves no purpose but to announce that you’re kind of a difficult person. Can we be friends?
Can’t rn, too busy jacking off on my Nexus 6. Stereo front-facing speakers, baby.
I’ve got big hands. Phones are great the size they’re at now.
Agreed. Even now the keyboard is about the size of my thumb. I hate typing on mobile.
Exactly the image I thought of.
Bless you, and all your generations to come, oh wide and sagacious one!
Phones have gotten way bigger again
I actually went smaller with my newer one. i am 197cm tall and thus have lather large hands, still the phones were getting too big, went from One Plus Nord 5G to iphone 15 pro.
It’s just the right size for me.
There was a very quick 180 on phone size when folks figured out they could be used for porn
Praise be!
I would agree, if the aspect ratio for those big phones was still 16:9, but its not. These long ass phones are made for doom scrolling.
Or movies which usually aren’t in 16:9
Doom scrolling porn?
How is an SUV more meaningless than the sedan?
I can cram into my ancient 80s civic hatch almost the same stuff my friend’s dad can put in whatever model giant suv he has. my friend has a small pickup that can carry more. The bigger vehicle is not any more comfortable, smells like plastic and fake leather, and it’s a mystery how that man makes the jump in and out of the vehicle with knees worse than mine because I have a hell of a hard time when I help them move stuff. Its also so damn high so getting heavy stuff in sucks big time. Not everyone wants a forklift to load their car.
Now do people.
The penis got smaller in the last one. /s
So it’s useful and does not suffer from overconsumption, got it!
