Seriously. This is a 10th generation Oldsmobile 98, with a 4,000 pounds curb weight. That puts it in the same range as smaller crossover SUVs these days.
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Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hasn’t the weight of cars been increasing? Pick a model and track the curb weight over generations. It seems to be going up.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 3 months ago
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thanks for the input. Is there a model of car we can use to show this trend? I tried doing it with a VW Golf, but that just showed the upward trend.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thanks for that. Drawing a line between cars and SUVs helped clarify average vehicle weight as the sum of two different trends.
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 3 months ago
Because they’ve gotten physically bigger?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
It’s mostly that the old American land yachts are no longer as big. Look at the fifth generation Lincoln Continental vs any after it. Or the 1960s Cadillac Eldorado, a 2.2 ton 2 door car
European and Asian cars have been trending up in size meanwhile but there have been instances where a new generation model is lighter than the old one due to the materials used.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 3 months ago
What’s really jarring is to see the old, American land yachts back in the day on the road next to the grotesquely-oversized pickup trucks we see everywhere. They look, well, not exactly small, but nothing at all like the bloated whales in our memories. Heck, my grandfather’s Cadillac seemed enormous at 225 inches long (the longest ever production car at the time), but the base model of the Ford F series is now 232 inches.