Cars are getting bigger all the time. Trucks keep getting taller and longer, EVs keep getting heavier, and wheels seem to add another inch every time we turn our back. Now, it’s possible to see just how big vehicles have gotten over time with a useful online tool. The tagline of Carsized.com is “Bringing car […]
Putting a Hummer H2 next to an Escalade really sums up how desensitized we are to pointlessly oversized vehicles. When the Hummer H2 came out in the early 2000’s it dwarfed everything, it looked so ridiculous on the road and barely fit in between the lanes. The Escalade/Suburban/Yukon is nearly 2 feet longer and is just as wide as the Hummer and we see them all over the road and don’t really think twice about it.
The h2 was roughly normal sized for SUVs and was even built on a normal SUV platform at the time it just looked square. I remember my dad saying he would never want one because it’s just a normal Tahoe now nothing special anymore lol. It wasn’t as crazy big as you suggest. The H1 Hummer though… That thing is soooo wide I saw one a year ago and couldn’t believe it fit on the road.
I only saw one of these in Europe and I was like “Holy shit what is that thing”. It looked like a damn tank on the road. And I just know it was a nightmare around the city with it. I couldn’t believe that’s how they came from the factory
Speak for yourself.
And what so many of the people here in this sub Giving excuses for the trucks and SUVs forget, is that so much of this is about the beltline not the length width or height. The cubic volume increase of these vehicles is absolutely astounding and makes it impose and everyone else on the road because you can’t see out of these fucking things and you can’t see around them
Given that the beltline of those cars (and most modern “full”-size pickups) is nearly in line with the roof of my Crosstrek (not a small and in no sense a short vehicle), I think about it pretty frequently, actually. Every big SUV and pickup on the road is a hazard, even if I assume the operator’s not an incompetent moron (which I absolutely do not assume), simply because they can’t see what’s going on around them.
Those suburbans are huge. They are bigger than my full cab f-150.
Suburbans of the past 20 years are anywhere from 219-226" long. “Full cab” (crew cab) F-150s of the past 20 years are 226-232" long with the short bed.
Suburbans of the past 20 years are anywhere from 219-226" long. “Full cab” (crew cab) F-150s of the past 20 years are 226-232" long with the short bed.