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Originally Posted by why?
And that's without carbon fiber panels.
The mx5 is not that small. Think on it this way, the Toyota Yaris weighs about 2200 pounds, you can easily get it to weigh under 2000 pounds, but a 1989 Mazda 626 weighed 1800 pounds stock and is actually a little smaller. Cars are just much larger now than they used to be.
People just want large vehicles, even look at the new Camry, the thing is a boat.
When I was a child we used a MK2 Toyota Supra as a family car and we fit just fine. Now people mock the BRZ and its rear seats as absurdly tiny.
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Even if they didn't the vehicles would have got larger. The North American crash requirements are massive.
A great example is the one for Head Protection alone. Just give it a quick read and see how it could change the size of vehicles while keeping in mind that it is one very, very small subset of the overall requirements.
https://one.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/rulings/12162.mlv.html