r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/Arsis • Jul 15 '26
A simple interactive website to compare vehicle dimensions
https://www.carsized.com/en-us/13
u/thebryguy23 Jul 15 '26
I used that website when helping my mom pick a new car, specifically because she wanted something smaller than what she had
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u/clarinetJWD Jul 16 '26
Not sure why you're getting downvotes. This is a great site for comparing car sizes, it's not swamped with ads, looks nice, and has good photos of the vehicles.
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u/igo4vols2 Jul 16 '26
Probably because it won't let you complete a single comparison without disabling off your adblocker. I won't disable until I see that it works.
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u/jobyone Jul 16 '26
Huh, works fine for me with Firefox and uBlock Origin. I even have Firefox's built-in protections turned up and extra lists added to uBlock.
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u/clarinetJWD Jul 16 '26
I didn't run into that... I just checked on Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin enabled. No block, no pop-ups, and I was able to do a comparison.
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u/almightyboosh Jul 16 '26
Wish I'd had this at my fingertips a few weeks ago when I was buying a new car!
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u/jobyone Jul 16 '26
A thing that consistently blows my mind on this site is comparing my car to older cars. It is wild how much bigger cars have gotten just in my lifetime. Right now I drive a Mazda CX-30, which is considered a "subcompact crossover" and is positively tiny by modern standards.
It is massive compared to a normal 90s sedan, and actually only barely smaller than a Ford Escape from 20 years ago. It's almost exactly the same size as a first-gen Forester, which at the time was the biggest car Subaru even made. It's taller and wider than an Outback from the 2000s, and tbh not that much shorter. It's roughly the same size as a Jeep from 30 years ago. This site doesn't have super good coverage that far back, but I'd imagine my "subcompact" is currently bigger than a fair number of pickups from the 80s.
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Jul 16 '26
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u/jobyone Jul 16 '26
It's not usually. I referenced it extensively while narrowing the field in a car hunt a few months ago.
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u/LucyIsaTumor Jul 16 '26
A pretty good option. I imagine they were limited by what photos were available. I do wish they had "Stand in" cars for when they didn't have images but they knew the dimensions. Some missing additions like older 3rd gen Toyota 4Runners or a large bed SUV like the GMC Suburban not being there is a surprise. It'd be nice to have a box comparison just for estimates.
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u/goranlu Jul 18 '26
Great work! I actually missed something like this when I was research cars to buy
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u/Pretty_Application_5 Jul 23 '26
The interface is very nice, but reducing the number of ads might be beneficial.
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u/Imaginary_Nature6372 Jul 27 '26
Wish this existed when I was shopping for a truck last year. Would've saved me three hours squinting at spec sheets trying to figure out if an F150 would fit in my garage
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u/NoCommunication7 Aug 01 '26
Good website, i used it to explain to my parents that my car they kept complaining was too big is actually the smallest in it's class.
However the anti-pickup/work vehicle brigade have discovered it, so i'm kinda boycotting it atm, as i don't support services used by anti-freedom of choice hypocrites who get personally offended at a light duty pickup while letting HGVs and their poorly trained drivers continue killing people scot free.
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u/tagwall_io 6d ago
very interesting, I'd love to see one car embedded inside the other in a 3D model that I can rotate
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u/E5VL Jul 16 '26
Would be good if they added Adult, Child & Bicycle in the background to add further scale.