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Researchers who analysed 10,000 crashes say car size does matter (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] 23 points 6 hours ago (9 children)

Funniest shit is that in the picture, the smallest car is a fucking SUV

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    Also the one with a lower, clearly sloped hood and the biggest windows, not only relative to it's size but in total. Yes size matters, but those stupid modern city tanks also bring a lot of additional "features" making them more dangerous for pedestrians alongside their ridiculous size.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

    I feel like it's more of a crossover but yeah that's basically the smallest car they sell nowadays, at least here in the USA.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago*

    The smallest car you can get in Victoria is a Kia Picanto or a Suzuki Ignis. We're talking under 900kg. They're usually driven by the very young or very old.

    I get around Melbourne in an old Ignis. The government frames us like we're the unsafe ones. The road blimps are getting out of hand.

    Fun story: I annoyed a guy in a Silverado last month by (gasp) getting in front of it so I could see. He pulls up next to me and starts yelling at my roof. I couldn't even see the dickhead's face.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

    Well crossover is an SUV, the most popular type of "stupid size car" in Europe at least

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    I always thought of them as a distinct category but maybe you're right I don't actually know.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    I had to double-check, but the difference seems to be that traditionally SUV has a frame separate from the body construction, and crossover has the body form frame

    But also, that definition is not always followed and people just call the stupidest size cars SUVs, and the less-stupid-but-still-stupid-size crossover

    But for example, by that definition this lada niva is a crossover, not an SUV

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  • [–] 7 points 6 hours ago* (1 child)

    Yeah I also looked it up and it doesn't really seem like there's a consensus on whether they count as SUVs. So I guess we're both kinda right.

    Either way fuck cars that are bigger than they need to be. That's the ultimate point.

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