And when a big SUV hits a smaller car, the little guy gets clobbered.
Later this year, it will introduce a compact Buick, the Verano, and an even smaller car, the Chevrolet Sonic.
Get a smaller car, move closer to your job and buy oil stocks.
Vehicles averaged 56 driver deaths per million, but the death rate among smaller car owners was dramatically higher at 82.
But Fiat's current difficulties show how vulnerable smaller car companies remain.
HLDI, an affiliate of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, is a big fan of hybrid technology to save gas, rather than buying a smaller car.
This long-expected (and recently spied) auto is a shortened, slightly smaller car that is said to be priced at a "much lower price point" than its predecessor.
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Designed primarily for city and suburban use, the new car will be smaller than a Smart car (three of them can fit into a single parking space), light (around 500 kilos), twice as efficient as an average car and will have the lowest emissions of any car in the same class.
But having transplanted the heaviest and most costly component to the c, you'd wind up with only marginal improvements in cost and fuel economy, and a smaller, crummier car to put them in.
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By eliminating the bulky V6-engine option in favor of a smaller, 4-cylinder turbocharged engine, Hyundai could design the car on a smaller, lighter steel frame.
Best to commute in something smaller and save the big car for family trips.
Automakers seem to have become smitten with the practice of slicing and dicing new-car segments into smaller niches in recent years like so many soft-drink varieties.
The look is functional as well as aesthetic, since the steeply raked top and resulting smaller frontal area make the car much more aerodynamic than its predecessors.
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Automakers that aspire to tap into the coming wave of new premium car buyers from smaller cities will need to innovate their dealer formats and sharpen their digital marketing skills, the report says.
Fisker's Karma series-hybrid electric vehicle hasn't exactly been receiving a lot of great press lately, but the company didn't let the process of swapping out 640 battery packs dampen the launch of that car's smaller sibling, the Atlantic.
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The driver is smaller in the body of the car than the Fifties original.
How much smaller is - are the American car manufacturers than they were, what, two, three, four, five years ago?
To preserve the illusion of a track open to all comers, France has made several moves to support smaller one- and two-car teams.
But with his new company, Gordon Murray Design Limited, he's now turning his considerable talents to a car that is much smaller and considerably cheaper to own and run.
Putting the engine at the back means the car's footprint is 8% smaller but provides 21% more interior space than that of the Maruti 800, the next cheapest car on the Indian market, which costs twice as much.
Cars that can do smaller functions, such as control a car in traffic jams, keep you inside lane markings or auto-park, are already on the road or about to come to market courtesy of Toyota, Mercedes, BMW and others.
But the team had to become smaller to continue and together we produced a car that has been exceptional this season.
Mr Plenty said he would rather a smaller supermarket was built at the South Road car park in Midsomer Norton, which Bath and North East Somerset Council has already earmarked for development.
And at the same time, car weights will definitely come down as smaller cars are the way to go.
The rear tires are mismatched, with a smaller tire on the inside to help lean the car into the curve.
"The car park was built when cars were smaller - you wouldn't get planning permission for it now, " said Mr Rigby.
Car manufacturers have seen sales of their smaller, mass-market models fall off, with lower income buyers unable to afford new cars in the economic downturn.
But below them are dozens of smaller makers, which are suffering as new-car prices fall (they are already down by 30% since 2004) and stricter emissions rules require big investments in technology.
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Getting to smaller towns and more remote destination usually requires renting a car and driving.
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