• Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    28 days ago

    Why does the nose have to be so large?

    It’s not appealing and you lose like 25% of cargo space for the vehicle

    • curiousaur@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      28 days ago

      A few reasons. Crash safety and comfort. It’s hard to make comfortable driver and passenger seats over the wheel well. It’s also hard to make that part reinforced for side impact and behind a crumple zone for head on impact when it’s over the wheel well.