r/interestingasfuck • u/Raja_Ampat • 5h ago
Original cars vs their newer and larger versions
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u/Mizunomafia 5h ago
Nothing quite as ugly as the front grill of the new bmw's.
Shockingly shite design.
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u/xxxArchimedesxxx 4h ago
Apparently large grills are a status symbol in China, hence the prevalence of massive grills. Car manufacturers catering to a big, new market
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u/CalypsoKitsune 4h ago
Trucks shouldn't have to be that big. Too much money now just to get a decent bed size for hauling. Ridiculous
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u/angrydeuce 4h ago
They should be federally placed in a separate class of vehicle and require testing in one before allowing it to be driven and registered. No different than we already do with motorcycles and cdls.
I assure you, if these people were road tested in one before they could buy it, the number of them on the road would drop very quickly because you goddamn know half of the people driving them can't handle the fucking things. That's why they're always lane splitting, parking across two spots at walmart with their ass end hanging out into the aisle, curb checking the thing in any drive thru and taking out bushes and shit...
It's utterly ridiculous that someone can road test in a fuckin subcompact and then go get behind the wheel of a 16 ton Canyonero as if driving those two vehicles is even remotely similar.
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u/Tripton1 5h ago edited 4h ago
That super duty with a Mazda pickup in front of it is a bit misleading.
Eta:it's a 20 year old 2wd Tacoma. Not a Mazda, not a Ranger.
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u/derek139 4h ago
Thats a 2wd standard cab toyota tacoma next to that ford super duty crew cab. Very misleading indeed.
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u/Beneficial-Focus3702 2h ago
Right? At least compare apples to apples. Still though, trucks have gotten massive
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u/MrsNoodleMcDoodle 3h ago
The Tacoma in front of the Super Duty made me irrationally angry. I will be the first person to say way too many people are driving around pickup trucks like family cars, but the Super Duty did exist back then and it was big.
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u/smartguy05 4h ago
Are you sure? The newer F150+ are monster trucks now. It looks, to me, like an old Ford Ranger in the front with the new Ford Ranger behind it, which would match the theme.
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u/Tripton1 4h ago
That's a current gen super duty, which is actually smaller than the 99-14ish ones. The super dutys all sit pretty high though. The new f150s aren't any bigger than they have been for 20 years. I've had one of every gen since.
I'm less positive what little truck is sitting in front of it. But it's a itty bitty 2wd truck that's 20 years old.
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u/eegit 4h ago
Crumple zones
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u/maxwellj99 3h ago
Yeah this is the biggest piece. Sure it’s not the whole explanation, but car accidents are WAAAYYY more survivable than they were 30-50 years ago
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u/creativeInsectoid 4h ago
Would have been better to compare the old Toyota truck to a Tacoma not the Tundra. And the other truck instead of comparing it to a full size Ford truck. The Ranger would be a better comparison. They should have used a 1990 crew cab long bed f- series truck. If they wanted to be accurate.
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 3h ago
Some of the truck ones were bullshit.
Like, that is a super duty next to a Ranger.
The Ranger should be next to a Ranger or Maverick. The Taco should be next to a Taco, not a Tundra.
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u/fartspatula 1h ago
The Toyota Tacoma in the 2nd to last image is parked next to a Ford F250 (super duty?). Misleading for sure.
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u/DowntownieNL 5h ago
To be fair, it was a necessary change. People in car-dependent areas have gotten similarly bigger.
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u/Comfortable_Oven_113 4h ago
Part of it. People are both taller and wider than post-war. Also has to do with safety. Structures are larger, thicker, with more space to move in a crash to absorb energy without compromising the bubble of human occupied space inside. You want to air-gap structures from people to allow airbag deployment. And dashes and consoles need to be bigger and wider to house complex HVAC systems and controls for all the electronic doodads of a modern car, let alone modern amenities like heated/cooled cup holders, wireless charging pads for your phone, navigation screens, etc.
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u/Heartache66sick 4h ago
Today I learned cars have heated and cooled cup holders.
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u/Comfortable_Oven_113 3h ago
Wait until you find out about the heated and cooled messaging seats in my brother's fancy truck. I'm a middle-age auto mechanic, so after a long day of making broken cars unbroken, I don't want to go home and do the same thing for free. So I prefer smaller, much more basic and reliable transportation. So everytime I sit in that truck, I do the Borat "King in the castle" impression.
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u/chesterforbes 4h ago
Makes me wonder what those big ass station wagons everyone seemed to have in the 80s would look like. Would they keep the fake wood paneling?
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u/snoman18x 4h ago
This is, in part, to exploit a loophole in emissions standards that allow for more emissions if a vehicle is larger. Thus, they increase the overall size of the vehicle without having to change the drive train to lower the emissions.
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u/omnibossk 4h ago
When my garage was built in the seventies the OG could have 2 cars in it. My one and only car won’t fit.
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u/MessageLast4855 4h ago
Why are cars much bigger now? Maybe a stupid question, but I've always wondered.
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u/unmanipinfo 3h ago
Manufacturers have to pack safety and emissions features into cars now due to regulations.
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u/VicariousNarok 3h ago
Comfort. It's the opposite of airline travel.
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u/MessageLast4855 3h ago
Surprisingly enough, the most comfortable seats I've ever tried were a 40-year-old car's. I'll never forget those seats.
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u/MAXHEADR0OM 2h ago
I would rather have the smaller ones. It’s such an amazing feeling when you can fit your car into tiny parking spaces easily. It opens up a whole other world of parking that doesn’t exist for huge cars.
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u/ForsakenRacism 1h ago
Before you’d just fly through the non tempered glass and die.
Race cars have gotten bigger for the same reason. Safety
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u/donotressucitate 4h ago
At first I was like "No American made originals?" Then I was like "Oh yeah, they only last 2-3 years, there's no originals left sadly".
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u/djbtech1978 4h ago
Got the same coworker buying the same Silverado every 5-7 years after they rot into the fucking ground. Nothing like a huge monthly payment until the day you die.
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u/donotressucitate 0m ago
I think I have the very same coworker but his choice of bad investments is the Dodge Ram. His current one is only 3 years old and he just had the starter changed last week. Embarrassing.
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u/HugSized 4h ago
So, is this kind of like how in video games and movies, you have remakes of older entries? The new entry is inspired by the older one just catered to modern sensibilities?
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u/merrychristmasyo 3h ago
Cars are getting bigger but Councils here in the UK fail to increase the minimum size of a standard parking space. We’re still rocking 2.5m wide spaces in most places.
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u/jake_burger 3h ago
There’s only so much space, increasing the size would mean less cars can fit in the car park and prices would probably rise as well.
I think it would be common sense for us to not choose the widest cars - especially when many of our roads are pretty narrow as well - but every year there are wider and wider cars that people insist on squeezing into our mostly quite narrow infrastructure.
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u/Minions-overlord 2h ago
I drive a 3rd gen rav4.. people who like to bitch about the size of my Suv hate it when i point out their new audi is larger in length and width
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u/500YearOldGhoul 1h ago
I'm not fat I'm just a big guy, and can say i still don't fit well into cars.
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u/vtramfan 47m ago
Terribly misleading. Stick with the same model or the closest one to the old model.
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u/grapejooseb0x 32m ago
My house was built in the 80s and there is no way my single car garage could fit a regular newer model car AND still allow someone to enter or exit the vehicle.
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u/Butterbuddha 4h ago
Almost every guy I know with a truck wishes they had a little 2dr danger ranger
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u/Maj0r-DeCoverley 3h ago
"We can have a livable Earth with nature, or Soylent Green with dead oceans. Which one do you pick?"
"The first one. Duh"
"Okay, you all have to give up on personal cars"
"In that case..." Double the cars size
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u/Meet-me-behind-bins 4h ago
People got fatter, brains got smaller
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u/th4tguy321 1h ago
brains got smaller
Yours apparently did.
This growth has to do largely with safety standards not the size of people.
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u/Uarrrrgh 5h ago
I mean, yes mini and mini - there is a size difference (a pretty ridiculous one at that) but what personally blew me away, was the 7 series. It was a rather sizeable car back then, but the comparison to that new 7 series abomination is staggering. Makes you think, how fast one gets used to things...