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IJS what we now call “Full Size” like the Impala, we used to refer to as “Compact” up till the early 90s.
by CodeWriter23 3y ago
IJS what we now call “Full Size” like the Impala, we used to refer to as “Compact” up till the early 90s.
- gruez 3y ago>we used to refer to as “Compact” up till the early 90s. source?
- RosanaAnaDana 3y agoHave you ever been in a car?
- gruez 3y agoI was in a car this morning, why?
- RosanaAnaDana 3y agoSource?
- gruez 3y agoAs luck would have it, I do have pictures of myself in a car. However, for privacy reasons I would rather not upload pictures of my face on the internet. I'd be happy to provide the picture to a trusted third party auditor of your choosing (eg. Deloitte, E&Y, KPMG, PWC) for verification, provided that you pay the fees :^) Now, I don't imagine that there would be any privacy related issues related to providing evidence regarding whether a Chevrolet Impala was considered a compact car or not, so I look forward to receiving correspondence from your auditor and whatever evidence you have that Chevrolet Impala was considered a compact car.
- tharne 3y ago> source? A bunch of us were alive in the 90's and driving cars.
- gruez 3y agoSorry that's not a source, and is seemingly contradicted by sources like [1], which say >The highest-selling full-size car nameplate is the Chevrolet Impala, sold as a full-size car from 1958 to 1986, 1994 to 1996, and then from 2000 until 2020. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-size_car https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-size_car
- tharne 3y agoI love that we've come to an era where supposedly educated people are in the habit of telling others that the use of their senses and mind to understand the world are invalid because someone didn't put the conclusions on a website.
- Retric 3y agoI realize you don’t think so but this really is a good thing. Memory is faulty, and the parent poster was simply incorrect.
- tharne 3y agoHow is that a good thing? The internet is a dumpster fire of half truths, infotainment, and objective falsehoods. I'll take human memory with all its warts over most of what's on the web any day.
- gruez 3y agoThe irony here is that the comment itself that's up for discussion (ie. whether a car is "full size") is also on the internet, and therefore I can flip your argument of "internet is a dumpster fire of half truths, infotainment, and objective falsehoods. I'll take human memory with all its warts over most of what's on the web any day" right back at you. What makes one random commenter's assertion that it's a full sized car more correct than another comment that claims the opposite?
- soupfordummies 3y ago
- CodeWriter23 3y agoUse your own powers of discernment to look up the measurements of various vehicles over the years.
- gruez 3y agoYou're the person making the claim. Why don't you "Use your own powers of discernment to look up the measurements of various vehicles over the years"?
- dredmorbius 3y agoWhat were considered "compact" or "sub-compact" cars in the 1970s, if not the 1980s, were often close to the size of "full-sized" sedans today. The 1970's Ford Maverick, for example, is described on Wikipedia as a "subcompact", at just under 180" (15', or 4.5 m) length. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Maverick_(1970%E2%80%931977) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Maverick_(1970%E2%80%9319...> Full-sized U.S. cars were large up until the oil embargos of the 1970s, and even then it took most of a decade for Detroit to start marketing smaller cars. The Ford LTD (a large full-sized car) was 224" (17'4") long, and simply massive. There was a pretty radical re-basing of automobile sizes beginning in the late 1970s and continuing through the 1980s / early 1990s.
- burnte 3y agoThe Impala was never compact. Compact cars are smaller, like hatchbacks and such, the Civic, the Escort, etc.
- CodeWriter23 3y agoIt's roughly the same size as a Gremlin at this point. And you misread what I wrote.
- burnte 3y agoCars the size of a Chevy Impala were never categorized as compact. The Gremlin is almost 3 feet shorter than an Impala.
- CodeWriter23 3y agoYep, you misread it again. “Full size” now = “Compact” in the 80s (Going by size)