Comments by "IIIRattleHeadIII" (@badass6300) on "Should these 10 new car trends DIE?!" video.

That has been a fact since the early 2000s, cars became fat and heavy with big pillars, terrible shapes and lines...
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@BeefIngot egh... significantly is a big exaggeration. Also as the old car enthusiast saying goes, if you don't want to die don't crash, if you are about to crash, crash hard.
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@carlosandleon nobody is talking about he 1970s, we are talking late 90s to early 2000s.
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@carlosandleon You forget that the car culture is dead and a lot fewer of the affordable cars are actually fast or let alone sports cars... Nowadays people buy econoboxes and they aren't into cars like they were in the 70s, 80s and 90s... Nowadays police, cameras and laws are a lot stricter. Nowadays cars have abs, traction and stability control, which adds no weight to cars. Tires are also much better, and so are suspensions. Neither of those adds to the weight of the car... The biggest improvement since then to the body itself is not it becoming this fat behemoth, but making it so when you crash the engine goes down instead of inside the the cabin, which again doesn't add weight to the car.
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@vg4472 Yes, because it wasn't affected by the new(at the time) regulations iirc.
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@carlosandleon and all the things that truly matter don't make cars fat, and ugly, the wide pillars and thick bodies aren't that important... The most important are abs, traction control, stability control, much better tires, much better suspensions and air bags, they don't add any real weight to the car... unlike the fat bodies. And they made the bodies fatter just so they can use more plastic crap...
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