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Originally Posted by Taxi645
Smaller lighter cars would be:
1 Much more nimble and fun to drive again (while maintaining current safety standards).
2 Cheaper to built and transport.
3 Use much less fuel.
4 Have better visibility.
5 Have less wet weather problems.
6 Have cheaper and easier to transport and handle tyres.
7 Be much more future compatible when the shift is more and more made to electric, where heavy batteries are the biggest problem.
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I'm not sure that all of those characteristics are certain.
Could you expand on why smaller cars would be:
1 maintaining current safety standards -
a significant part of the current car size is devoted to safety structures.
2 Cheaper to built -
does smaller automatically mean cheaper? There may be less raw material, but miniaturisation of components in other fields has not automatically meant reduced cost.
7 Be much more future compatible when the shift is more and more made to electric, where heavy batteries are the biggest problem. -
how so? Most automotive fields are seeing larger vehicles as the standard, as a result of modernisation.
But what I also note is that the argument is now being made for smaller cars as a whole, not just smaller wheels and tyres. I think that is a different argument entirely.
Smaller cars - one case
Smaller wheels on the current cars - a different case altogether.