In North America we're being conditioned to accept ever-larger vehicles as normal, and it's working beautifully (for car makers, much less so society or the environment).

My mom drives a Mazda something-or-other crossover, and gets annoyed when I call it her truck. She insists it's a "car" and "not that big", both arguments made foolish when I roll up in my Nissan Micra.

A while back I was comparing the 1987 Ford Ranger (what I learned on) with a more recent Ford Maverick, out of curiosity. The Maverick is nearly the same size as the Ranger (the box is a bit longer) but thirty five hundred pounds heavier. No doubt a lot of that is battery, but holy shit.

Nice to know Toyota still has a hatch. Nissan stopped selling the Micra in Canada and almost nobody has anything that small in their offerings now.