The Chevy Suburban is about the same weight now as in 1973 (5837lbs then, 5785-5993lbs now, according to Wikipedia).
It was huge then, it’s huge now.
The BMWs pictured are not the same class of car either — one is a coupe/sedan, one’s an SUV, so of course they will be radically different.
Don’t get m wrong, I think modern cars are too big and, in the case of BMW, way uglier than they used to be.
That’s not an average representation of the increase in the size of pickup trucks, though.
Just look at the Ford F150:
Even if you compare like with like, pickups are around 30% heavier than they were in the 90s, and around 10-15% taller.
https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/pickup-trucks-f150-size-weight-safety
Nah the actual space you can use shrunk while the truck got bigger. That’s insane
That’s comparing a regular can with a crew cab.
They didn’t have crew cabs back then, which is kinda the point.
Edit: correction - they did, but it wasn’t until the mid-2000s that they became common.
As opposed to now, where I have to do a double take whenever I see a modern single cab. AFAIK, they are now special order and some models don’t even offer them.
Here’s a link if you want to include in your comment.
It’s a site that compares car sizes. This link is for the 3 series
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-3-1997-sedan-vs-bmw-3-2018-sedan/
And here’s a dodge challenger which surprisingly is fatter but slightly shorter and higher
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/dodge-challenger-1969-coupe-vs-dodge-challenger-2015-coupe/
You’re telling me that tiny little sedan on the left is 3 tons!?
For those who are actually curious, this is because of the Light Truck Exemption in the US. long story short, the us made emissions requirements on cars. Car companies said “fine well do cars, but we can’t do it for trucks”. At the time, trucks were only used for, you know, actual truck things, so they made the Light Truck Exemption.
So of course car companies created the SUV, popularized it, and made it the standard. Now, so interestingly, everything is a light truck! Even most sedans are. Who would have guessed car companies found a way out of emissions standards yet again.
Great not just bikes video that goes more in depth: https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo?si=y38n9OQz8gC5RLBq
The weird thing is that it even rubs of to the rest of the world, cars are getting bigger and higher in Europe, without the tax dodge, or even the contrary. Where I live cars are taxed by weight and even here the fuckers get bigger…
I don’t think that’s related. It’s more about why america loves pickups so much while the rest of the world doesn’t. But the SUV epidemic is actually global.
The old BMW looks so much better too.
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Who gives a shit about cars, give me my buttload of ports back!
Get framework. It has 6 type-c ports, each of which you can breakout into something like 10 ports with usb hubs.
What you carry and what carries you don’t really compare though.
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If you like chunky and portful check out the MNT Reform
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Counterpoint: you needed all those different ports because we didn’t have USB-C and wifi yet.
cellphones have been reversing the trend, we’ve gone back to phablet sized devices (but this time removing the smaller options)
Does anyone know what that laptop is?
Courtesy of /u/idiot206’s sleuthing work when this was posted to reddit a couple years back, it’s a modded Mac SE
https://www.cultofmac.com/229732/this-13-pound-vintage-mac-laptop-was-killed-by-the-sony-walkman/
That thing is awesome. I kinda want one.
MacBook Air
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This truly says a lot about our society. 4x4s and jeeps never existed before OP found out they did. Truly sad. Car bad.
Actually, I’d like a bigger and thicker laptop
Gaming laptops are thicker and have quite a few ports. I have one and the only port i am missing is Displayport instead of hdmi
Bring back the assault-and-battery-case laptop!
