yep it's absolutely ridiculous

I've got a car with 8 inches of ground clearance, that can carry 8ft dimensional lumber inside the vehicle, tow a thousand pounds of material in my relatively lightweight trailer, make it through snowstorms to ski hills and muddy fields and some ATV tracks, tow other vehicles up steep slippery inclines, haul full size BBQs and similar fully assembled inside the vehicle, and yet I pull up alongside a newer generation of the same model and their window bottom is at my eye level. or a pickup is on my ass and I can't see anything but the lower half of the grill, and its headlights are shining directly into my car and leaving a crisp white line on the headliner from through my rear window.

also obligatory fuck your Mazda too, if you have a newer one with LED headlights. if not, disregard. I miss my '08 Mazda3, even if it did suck in the snow. mostly my fault for using regular size and width winter tires. but seriously, fuck Mazda's LED headlights. I've seen it twice already this year that a pedestrian was nearly run over in a crosswalk because a driver couldn't see them due to a Mazda3 on the other side of the four way stop.