Ars TechnicaDon’t supersize me: The case for small electric cars instead of big SUVs
Small cars are good for us but bad for business.
scififan@arstechnica I'd love a small car, but I have 3 little kids in various kinds of car seats. We own 1 car and it's a Honda CRV, the smallest, most efficient, single vehicle that can fit 3 car seats, and then only *just* barely.
I'd love an article on options for people like my family. Car seats of some kind (infant, full seats, boosters) are *required* here up through age 8 so it's not just waiting out a year or two either.
Joe@arstechnica @scififan I always think about this when I read articles like this. Car seats are safer but they are also a lot bigger than they used to be and it definitely contributes to the demand for larger cars. A lot of small cars can’t even fit one car seat easily!
QuarterSwede@scififan @arstechnica Yep. We’re a family of 5 and 0 of the regular size cars or SUV’s fit all of us anymore (7 through teen). We ended up buying at Mazda CX-90 PHEV, which, while it didn’t have the most on paper space in the 3rd row, actually had the most usable leg and feet room of all of that class vehicle we got into while being the easiest to access the 3rd row. Wife wouldn’t buy a van because all of the AWD vans are more expensive and went over budget. To offset, I’m looking at a MX-5. 😉