A Mini is not mini anymore!

I'm sure some of you find certain cars very uncomfortable, being tall. Mr Bobbin likes sports seats or German cars (they tend to be very big) as he is 6ft 3, so he can fit his legs in.

I, on the other hand, am about the height of the average Japanese male. So I find Japanese cars very well proportioned!

The seat width change is also interesting; I think maybe the growth of the outside of the car is to do with the extra safety features a modern car has, but the seat might not have changed so much if we hadn't been getting fatter too.

Motorbikes seem to be going the other way; the technology to make them very light means they are shrinking. Power-to-weight ratio getting better I suppose.

Most cars are just shockingly badly designed. Seats backs are far to low for average people, if they made them flat rather than putting in curves it would help greatly.

The peddles on some cars are far to close together (new VW up! is an example) and they need space to places feet around them when not being used.

The front seats on most cars don't go back very far (Ford , BMW and VX with the new Astra are exceptions)

With seats all the way back virtually all cars (bar my Mitsubishi Colt) seem to have no room in the back seats. If one car company can manage to provide excellent room in the front and provide great room in the back why can't all the others.

Dashboards are set far to low on some cars and switches hidden from view by the steering wheel. It doesn't seem to be the size of the car either, many crossovers and 4x4s have teh worst room of any car.

But cars in the 50s were badly made, didnt work, rusted very quickly and were terribly unsafe. Im fed up of the opinion pushed by old people of 'people should be made to drive old cars to learn real road safety' because in the 60s and 70s around 6,000 people died on Britains roads per year on average despite there only being about 4 cars on the roads of Britain. So its reasonable to suggest when our fathers and grandfathers had to drive rubbish cars to 'learn real road safety' they werent very good at it.

Cars are bigger now yes but i wouldnt describe the reasons for it as 'useless' but rather 'progress' myself. The problem is the average parking space is still based on the Ford Anglia and we've been more obsessed with trying to prevent people owning cars rather than do the right thing of take practical forward thinking steps to accomodate it.

6ft-4 here and broad shoulders currently drive the Vectra but getting in some cars i like as the Toyota Avensis was a waste of my time as the seat didn't go back far enough a real shame.

Same goes for many others so yes lets have some bigger cars like bigger clothes and lets keep the prices down.