OT: Why do cars slope inwards at the sides?

I see you don't know the answer then.

Correct.

Prick.

I suspect that a lot of the inverse tardis effect is due to safety requirements.

My old 1970s Cortina was fairly small by today's standards, but had great visibility with thin A-pillars, and felt spacious inside. I've been in lots of much larger modern cars that feel claustrophobic inside, with lousy visibility.

I think it makes them come out of the mould easier.

Not sure how adding a huge centre console and sloping the top half of the sides in helps that. Sure, they will have added side impact bars and airbags, but those don't mean the windows have to slope in.

As for visibility, the health and softy folk are shooting themselves in the foot by adding thicker pillars. So it's safer if you crash, but more likely you will!

That's stating the bleedin' obvious. :-)

He's been in my killfile for quite some time now (and I'm rather choosy about who I allow into my kill file. :-)

Anyhow, just checking whether Pan has turned this follow up into a new thread.

If he's in your killfile, then it's broken, as you just saw his post. F****it.

Do you sit sideways?

To impress the neighbors.

If you don't want to go on a diet, Ford makes vehicles for obese people.

Diet doesn't tend to make very much difference to your width at the shoulders though.

SteveW

Maybe a Kenworth then?

I'd imagine there are several reasons. Firstly there are safety gear, like airbags, then there is the undoubted fact that styling sells cars. If it looks good on the outside often it sells well. The increasing complexity of the controls and other operations means moor bells and whistles etc. However not being a driver but being often a passenger I too wonder about the apparent paradox of having air bages all over the place low down, but then making the upper part so low and narrow that any large deceleration or sideways knock results in a head window impact!.

Brian

No, I suspect though that even if we really knew that answer, see my previous post, Our razor blade friend would not be satisfied either. What is the point of buying a house with a garage that is so narrow that cars cannot get in or if they do the driver cannot get out? Take a look around at houses built in the 1960s to about 1980, and you will find most are too narrow and are thus used as a very big 'for now' cupboard. Brian

They also make a smaller one, grand connect tourneo, having one delivered on thursday.

No I am not obese.

Cars tend to have curtain air bags that stop your head hitting the sides these days. They pop down from the head lining while the side impact ones pop out from the seat sides.

What's wider, your waist or your shoulders?

No, because it looks like cheap s*it.

I could get my car into mine (1979 house). But then I removed the garage door, built a wall, and fitted double glazing, ceiling and wall insulation, central heating and lighting. It's now a room.

I wonder how many people are killed by 15 explosive bags appearing all around them at once.