If you only need a huge SUV to protect you from other huge SUVs, then buying an even huger SUV is just an arms race, not actual safety.

I daily a BMW I3 on the I5 south of Seattle and I just have to pay more attention. I drive in a similar manner to how I ride my old motorcycle: pay attention and avoid idiots as best I can.

My Fit does family duty for me - wife and kids (both in car seats, one rear-facing).

the fact that farmers have been importing kei trucks in troves because it just does the job should be more than proof about that

Fit owner agrees completely. The only thing it can't do is tow, and I don't tow.

Im sorry but they don’t. A small car with good traction (awd not necessary) can handle cross county travel just fine. America isn’t the only country that has vast open stretches of open country, but we are one of the few that makes excuses to buy big ass trucks. 

I’ll never understand the people who see every conversation as an opportunity to list their property. Is it narcissism or aspergers?

And in a pinch you can break into it while the owner is gone and get a free gun.

I’ve dailied an FRS for the last ten years in Houston - a city that usually cracks the top ten worst cities for driving in the country. While the Miata is about a foot shorter still, I’ve found the FRS’ size and handling ability to be an asset when it comes to avoiding/getting out of situations (along with a…

Sorry, that’s crap. A Honda Fit can cross the country just as easily as a 21' truck. We have paved interstates. We aren’t driving across a post-apocalyptic hellscape. Very few of the people with giant SUVs and trucks actually need giant SUVs and trucks. Even in Manhattan, Kansas.

How to say "I missed the point" without actually saying it.

“We have space, long distances between towns, big roads, weather extremes, and big parking spaces in the vast majority of the U.S. that just don’t compute from an E.U. perspective.”

As others have said - full size trucks and SUVs make sense on a case by case basis - what the individual uses it for. Not on a ‘location by location’ basis. The simple fact of the matter is that lots of people want to need a truck, but don’t actually need a truck.  

My freedom is more important than your health

At least they labeled the contents for easy avoidance.

After visiting Europe and seeing the size of vehicles that European families have no problem with, size-wise, you will come home and realize how retarded (I said it, sue me) it seems for Americans to have such massive vehicles as we do. 

My first day of NC Miata ownership, a guy in a Ram almost drove into me in a grocery store parking lot. Still, that was the only incident in years. Don’t let your fears of what might happen keep you from enjoying life. Buy the Miata.

Rugged individualism

Introducing the 2034 Ford F350.

This article really relates to me as I have been seriously considering a new 2023 Miata RF and the size of cars around me is pretty scary since they are mostly SUVs. Even compared to CUVs like Rav4s or CRVs the Miata is pretty small and low. I am not even sure if they can see it if in a blind spot. I drive on the…