With other words, in 1960s “medium” cars like Ford Taunus were best-sellers, being 4 meter in length, during 1980s and 1990s “compact” cars like Volkswagen Golf became best sellers, being again 4 meters in length, in 2010s “small” cars like Ford Fiesta, Opel Corsa and Peugeot 208 became best sellers, having the same length of 4 meters. This non-natural grow made buyers to move towards smaller models and most car manufacturers abandoned large models and introduced new smaller models below existing models. The cars get fatter also in width, this is an issue for parking design. This leads to 2 cm / year increase in average car length in each class. Seems that all European companies wants to make a car bigger than competitor’s cars of same class. Some brands do not follow the common class sizes, making cars with intermediate sizes, these are usually considered being part of the smaller class, causing further increase in average size for each class. Is normal for cars to grow over years with about 5 mm / year in length, as technology advances and more gadgets should be included under body, but in Europe since 1990s, the cars are growing more than necessary, gaining 10-20 cm per model change. Average life of a car model is 6 years for compact and medium cars and 8 years for mini and luxury cars. Car classification in Europe is not officially regulated, instead, it is defined in relative size with other cars.
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