Europe’s Best-Selling Vehicle Looks Ridiculous Next To America’s

The automobiles in your common U.S. street look much more like those in your common European street than they did 40 or 50 years in the past. However this graphical overlay reminds us that some issues are nonetheless very totally different on both facet of the Atlantic Ocean.

To nobody’s shock Ford’s F-150 was the best-selling car within the U.S. in 2022. The enduring flatbed has been America’s favourite mode of transport yearly for many years. Europeans are barely extra fickle, all the time selecting a small hatchback and largely preferring VW’s Golf, however often transferring their affection from one mannequin to the opposite. In 2022 it was Peugeot’s pocket-sized 208.

You don’t must see a European subcompact subsequent to a full-size truck to know one is way smaller than the opposite, nevertheless it nonetheless makes you gasp when they’re proven alongside and to scale, as they’re on this picture. We first noticed it posted on-line by Reddit person gavarnie who’d created the pic utilizing the Carsized web site. For those who haven’t checked out Carsized, it’s a enjoyable device that permits you to overlay every kind of automobiles, some from a number of angles, and provides the size for every one. Pedants will level out that the F-150 proven is technically the earlier mannequin, however since that was additionally a finest vendor and the 2021-on vans dimensions are very related, the comparability nonetheless stands.

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Within the case of the 208 and an F-150 outfitted with the SuperCrew cab, the picture reveals us precisely what the 231.9-in (5.89 m) Ford’s further 72.4-in (1.84 m) of size appears like. Actually, all the 208 nearly matches throughout the F-150’s 145-in (3.68 m) wheelbase. And this isn’t even the most important model of the F-150 out there. Go for the 6.5-ft rear field and also you get nearly 12-in (305 mm) extra actual property between axles.

After which there’s the peak distinction: the Ford towers 20.9-in (531 mm) over the Peugeot, the roof of the 208 roughly matching up with the Ford’s hood, waistline and driver’s elbow. It appears just like the Pug has been lined up able to be crushed in a monster truck present. But it surely’s price saying that whereas Peugeot’s 208 isn’t out there in North America, loads of equally small vehicles, together with the Mini, are on sale on each continents.