My, how you've grown...

[Aston Martin]

[Partridge]

Fiat get off pretty lightly when you compare the Panda to the 500.

[oman5]

The only thing that really bugs me with moderns is that you can't bloody see out of the damn things. I drove a new corsa (shit) and it has these tiny little triangle rear windows that are too high to look through over your shoulder, and the dash is so high its like sitting in a well.

I find mrs oman's sandero hard to parallel park, can't see where the front or back is. no wonder so many cars have parking sensors fitted.

I dunno, maybe I'm too used to square volvos.

[Junkman]

Fiat get off pretty lightly when you compare the Panda to the 500.

 

Yeah, but it's Italian.

[Junkman]

The only thing that really bugs me with moderns is that you can't bloody see out of the damn things.

 

They also drive like shit, but that's not subject of this thread.

[solid61]

You are dead right about poor visibility,on my fiat stilo the A pillars are so big that more than once when coming up to a roundabout I have to look twice to make sure there are no cars/motorbikes on the roundabout hiding behind them,not good!!.While on about size of moderns,some friends recently chopped an old Xtype jag for a new astra coupe thingy and the astra wont swing into their awkwardly shaped garage, but the X type fitted in the garage no problem.

[chaseracer]

Why do you keep posting BMW X6s up? Confused.

 

ISWYM...

 

 

 

 

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I think the Odious can be forgiven it's size,as in Korea it was available as an 11 seater. Yes,it's our fault for having such fat Western arses that this abomination is just an mpv here..

 

What excuse the man that designed two of the last Gentlemans cars ever made has for the way it looks,I have no idea.

Here's a couple of Kens's less popular earlier efforts.

 

 

 

[rml2345]

That photoshopped Odious looks better than the X6...

[Micrashed]

Fiat get off pretty lightly when you compare the Panda to the 500.

Until you realise the Panda seats 5, the new 500 seats 4.

[chaseracer]

So... this 11-seat Odious...
 

 
...HTF do you get into the fourth row??!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* other than through the enormous gap where the right hand side of the car appears to be missing, obvs...

[ChinaTom]

From memory, I think the centre seat of the 3rd row flips up to allow a little corridor to the back. That Rhodius may look awful from the outside, but configured as a 6 seater, they are really comfortable to be in. I did 800 mile as a passenger in one of these and felt like chopping in my Kia Carnival for one. The 3.5V6 lump in the Kia won the day though.

[Pillock]

I thought there was an 8 seat limit for normal car licences?

I must admit, the threat of having to drive a Rhodius is a strong case for having a vasectomy.

[chaseracer]

I thought there was an 8 seat limit for normal car licences?

 

That might be the case here... 

[Richard]

I thought there was an 8 seat limit for normal car licences?

I must admit, the threat of having to drive a Rhodius is a strong case for having a vasectomy

 

16 passenger seats if it's not for hire or reward, 8 if it is- if you're old like me at least.

[Pillock]

Aaah yeah that doesn't appear to have changed - B category is 8 seats at 17 years of age, 16 seats at 21 years of age but not for cashmoney.

 

Doesn't alter the fact it's fugging ugly. 

 

http://www.uglycars.co.uk/uglycar.asp?ref=71

 

 

 

f a person were to take a collection of blind kittens at a heavy metal concert and ask them to design a car whilst stabbing them repeatedly with a sharpened stickle-brick, then the result would almost certainly be an improvement on the Rodius

[fordperv]

as a child i always thought a capri mk3 was big but heres a picture i found on google of one next to a mongdeo

 

[overrun]

As for the X6, I like them. At least they have some character.

I'm aware they are like a slightly less useful X5, but they remind me of a Hot Wheels car.

 

That can never be a bad thing.

[oldford]

The wheel size is to do with the aesthetics.  Apparently the design is easier on the eye if the space between the front and rear wheels corresponds to the size of around three wheels.

 

I often have to manoeuvre big cars in small spaces and it gets irritating when the front and rear parking sensors are going off at the same time, luckily some of them do have reversing cameras which do help.

[HMC]

My old sierra comprehensively out tyred and out bloated by a Bini Countryman

[Felly Magic]

Years back your average car sat on 13 inch rims, now even stuff like basic Fiestas run 15 inch jobs

[PhilA]

I want to take the Photoshop of the Rhodius and put the number plate up where the badge goes, simply because to my eyes the proportions look vaguely like a Corolla.

[chaseracer]

Years back your average car sat on 13 inch rims, now even stuff like basic Fiestas run 15 inch jobs

 

Domestic Management's C3, pre-delivery...

 

 

 

 

17" alloys, 215/45 rubber...

 

 

[trigger]

I just spotted this on Facebook.

 

[Aston Martin]

[mat_the_cat]

And another Mini versus MINI Countryman which I saw on Sunday...

 

[fordperv]

i took my dog to the vets earlier and saw this line up

 

 

my god how big that ka is

[Richard]

Are the Ka and 500 not basically the same car?

[Disco Fever]

The pics of cars and their ancestors are a real eye opener. Anything pre '80s looks like a toy next to what amounts to some of the smallest cars you can currently buy. I guess some of the growth is beyond manufacturers control, mandatory safety features and the like but peoples expectations of what comes with a car are very high - air con, sat nav and so on all need squeezing in somewhere. It's interesting that the increasing proportions have allowed new smallest cars to be slotted in; Ford Ka, VW Urban Fox, BMW 1 series etc. etc. 

[fordperv]

Are the Ka and 500 not basically the same car?

 

yes they both share the same platform, probably underpinnings as well but i cant comment on that as ive never worked on one