It is surprising how much cars have grown over the past 50 years and was brought home to me a few years ago when I was behind a 1969 Triumph 2000, a model of a car I used to own back in the mid 70’s.
I always had it in my memory that that car was massive back then but it looked almost a foot narrower than my 2014 VW Golf and I don’t consider the Golf to be a massive car.
In the odd places I’ve had to park in standard parking spaces now in my disabled days where the BB spaces are full my current cars tyres are only an inch short of touching the white lane marking of the parking space on either side and although its an MPV its only a couple of inches wider than a standard saloon.
All that said even the 1969 Triumph 2000 was large enough to carry 4 souls and a few Robins and Squirrels.?