• Left as Center@jlai.lu
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    4 days ago

    The average US car is probably twice as big as the models mentioned, I’d take the 1/5 ratio with a grain of salt.

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      4 days ago

      You’d be wrong. Been traveling in China for a few weeks now and their cars are similar in size to the average north american sedan, including trunk space. SUVs and trucks are rare though.

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        4 days ago

        Thing is the average US car is bigger than a sedan because lots of SUV & trucks. And the models mentioned are a mid size (smaller than a sedan), a micro car, and a mid/small SUV.

        All in all Chinese cars are 30% cheaper (which is amazing) the whole 1:5 isn’t relevant.

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        4 days ago

        I never said they weren’t nice (they are very nice indeed).

        I said they were smaller than a us car of average price used as a benchmark in the 1:5 ratio. And cost is directly linked to size, bigger means more material, more machining etc. So a better comparison would be to find similar cars. And you’d end up with something closer to 1:2.

        US cars are fucking too big anyways.