Here Are The Cars You Think Are Too Long

“Every crew-cab long-bed pickup truck.

“Special call out to the Ram MegaCab. You’re too long!”

From tip to tail, the Ram 3500 MegaCab is 250 inches long. That makes it more than three times longer than the original Fiat 500.

Suggested by: hangovergrenade

“I had a 2015 Mustang for a couple years and never got super comfortable with how big it felt. Tough for me to tell where the corners and front end were just because of sight lines, I think.

“Anyway, I’m going to say Mustangs.”

Ford premiered the sixth generation of its Mustang in 2015. The latest model of the iconic muscle car is 188 inches long, making it seven inches longer than the first iteration.

Suggested by: jeigenberger

“4-door Wranglers. The reason people put up with a Jeep is for their off-road capability. The length of the 4-door ruins that.

“4-door Jeeps: crappy on-road, crappy off-road.”

I’ve never heard anyone claim that a longer car makes for a better off-roader. So maybe if you want to head for the hills, avoid the 188-inch four-door Wrangler. And definitely steer clear of the Gladiator, which is 30 inches longer still!

Suggested by: walmartshoes

“My 1970 Buick Wildcat was 220 inches long (that’s 18'4") and was essentially a two-seater. With my 6'4" self in the front seat, the back of the front bench seat was maybe 3-4 inches from the edge of the back seat.

“This car also took up most of a two car garage with maybe four inches of space between the rear bumper and the garage door (I have a shelving unit bolted to the rear of the garage that takes up ~16 inches of space.) and the doors were so long and heavy I couldn’t park my DD in the garage next to the Wildcat without potentially denting one car or the other.

“And did I mention it swilled gas at 12mpg on a good day, was drafty with the top up even with new weather stripping and handled like a pig on roller skates in the rain?

“God, i miss that car. :’-(“

Any car that doesn’t fit in a standard garage with room to wrench is officially too big. Especially if it’s a 1970s Buick.

Suggested by: earthbound-misfit-i

“OK, it’s not an American land yacht, but: This thing was a 5 meter long coupe, mostly sold in countries where the average car was about half the size (and the average car would have 4 doors and would be practical transport for a whole family). It was an extravagant waste of space.

“European countries have seen massive inflation of car sizes in the last few decades, and this was a pioneer. It simply couldn’t fit in most parking spaces.”

This poster thinks the S-Class Coupe of the 1980s was the car that opened the floodgates for ever-growing European cars. Would you agree?

Suggested by: bobrayner

“Pickup prices got crazy, and I wanted a vehicle that fit the family better for roadtrips, so I bought a 2019 Chevy Express 3500 Extended Passenger van. 244.1" of LS powered greatness. I think it is the longest factory passenger vehicle of all the ones mentioned here.”

Sure, a van is meant to be pretty long. But the size of the Express makes it feel like an absolute unit.

Suggested by: doug317

“The Ford Excursion was the one that really made me nervous. The thing was as long as two cars, as heavy as three and typically driven 15 over the limit by a distracted soccer mom/dad screaming at their kids. Adding to that, the diesel version was louder than a locomotive.”

At 227 inches long, 80 inches wide, and 77 inches tall, the Excursion is too big in almost every way. It also weighs roughly the same amount as an Orca.

Suggested by: mikeofla

“Haven’t driven it, nor seen it in person but here I am saying: The new Smart SUV. Why? Because the one thing that Smart had going for it was that it made for a pretty great city car in Europe. Even in the most cramped space you could fit a Smart.

“The car was as long as other cars are wide, so sometimes you could even park it longitudinally without the front sticking out. For whom this SUV is, I don’t know.”

Sure, this isn’t an overly long car. But the fact that it’s a Smart that is longer than most cars are wide makes it an easy addition to this list.

Suggested by: obrut-2002

“Back in college, I was on the hunt for a summer car to keep at my parents house in Phoenix (I staying in NY for college, and they hightailed it out of here). I wanted a late 60s Lincoln or Cadi. I found a fantastic deal on the perfect Sedan de Ville (even though a coupe would have been better, and a Conti better than that). But a quick measurement of the garage showed it wouldn’t even come close to fitting. Not only that, but it wouldn’t even fit in the driveway without hanging into the sidewalk.

“At 220-something inches, those cars weren’t as long as the biggest pickups you can get today, but pretty damn close.”

Another piece of gloriously oversized Americana. The hood alone on these old Cadillac coupes could be longer than seven feet. That’s too damn big.

Suggested by: hotmagma

“1974 US-Spec 911. There are a lot of long vehicles that aren’t really any longer than they need to be for their intended purpose. Then there are the ones that were perfectly the right length everywhere else in the world, but had to have a few extra hideous inches added to be sold in the US.”

Ah the Porsche 911, a perfectly proportioned ultimate driving machine. That was, until it got imported into the U.S. and lawmakers demanded it had extra bumpers added.

Suggested by: theart