3 Jun
2023
3 Jun
'23
10:55 p.m.
On Sat, 3 Jun 2023, Wayne S wrote:
It’s amazing to me how small “full size” cars are
these days. I
saw my old 1961 Ford Falcon that used to be a small car and its bigger
than my “luxury full size” car today.
The 1962 Ford Falcon "Squire Station Wagon" even had faux wood on the
sides!
The Ford Falcon, through 1965, was a "Compact car". My parents had a Ford
Falcon Futura convertible.
After 1966, Ford started making it larger, up to the 1970.5 "intermediate"
car.
Towards the end of the 1970s, American car companies finally started to
got over their insistence that bigger is better, as small foreign cars
started to eat their lunch.