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 […]
At some point, engineering can’t defeat physics. I had to buy the wife a larger vehicle because I didn’t feel comfortable with my family in a smallish SUV. I made sure that the vehicle had an excellent crash rating, air bags and it was just … bigger.
When folks around you are in duallys and is twice the length of a Sherman tank, it matters.
Size only contributes to safety in vehicle-on-vehicle crashes. In a vehicle-on-enviornment crash the larger the vehicle the more challenging it is to stop.
Which is why the safest cars imo are in the mid-size class, not the trucks.
SUVs and pickup trucks have lower single vehicle fatality rates than cars.
SUVs and pickup trucks have lower single vehicle fatality rates than cars.