Does size matter?

Size matters, as does weight. We need to start curtailing our appetite for fuel-hungry, space-hogging hunks of metal

We need to lose weight. Naturally I could be talking about ‘we’, the population of Ireland, but that’s not my remit. I’m talking about cars. Cars need to lose weight. And shrink in size for that matter. But as car buyers, we’re determined to go the other way.

Exhibit A: the well-documented-in-these-pages shift away from modest C-segment hatchbacks by the masses to crossovers and SUVs with a larger footprint: both actual footprints and ...