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[–] antimidas@sopuli.xyz 18 points 21 hours ago

And by some miracle, I wouldn't be surprised if the Panzer II felt more spacious inside. It's baffling how cramped modern SUVs and especially crossovers are compared to their external size.

Our relatively small VW ID.3 is more spacious inside than most small-to-mid crossovers in Europe (e.g. Renault Kadjar/Nissan Qashqai, Volvo XC40 etc.). It's still a lot smaller in external dimensions, and actually fits to parking spots.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you need to invade Poland at three but pick up the kids from pottery class at five.

[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

From Berlin to Warsaw in one tank.

I wonder which has killed more people though...?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Did you mean to do math better, or did you mean to state the size of the BMW owner?

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 18 hours ago

Ah. Sorry everyone. The math is wrong! (It’s getting into the night here.)

It’s the BMW that is longer, not the tank. So there’s no the size to compensate. Unless …

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world -1 points 16 hours ago

That’s the length of the average bmw driver’s dick.

[–] Lupus108@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well to be fair the X7 can seat 7 passengers while the Pz. II has only 3 seats.

[–] ea6927d8@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, in average, the tank carries more people.

[–] treeofnik@discuss.online 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

X7 = 1.35 people/meter, tank = 0.62 people/meter

ETA: not that I’m justifying the size or anything lol. Just mathing

[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

But the X7 will on average carry one

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Persons carried on average has to be >1.0. Might be less then 1.5 which would make your statement true after rounding down but it cannot be 1 unless there are a lot of drivers that miss a leg or an arm and you are a biggot who sees them as less than 1 person.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You're quite correct if the average we're using is the mean, but the mode is also a way of expressing an average, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was 1 for the BMW.

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Definitely true, the mode is much more likely 1 than 2-7 for sure.

[–] ji59@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 22 hours ago

Oh yeah? But the tank has 0.201 more cannons per meter that the car. In other words, infinitelly more, infinitelly better.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

3 seats inside, 4 can sit on the back for transportation.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 14 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

So the BMW is a bigger target and far less armoured? Why would you ever drive the BMW!

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, now imagine it with little flags on the corners of the hood

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 20 hours ago

Which one are we talking about again? I can imagine both with that flag at this point...

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Guess you haven't noticed how expensive fuel has gotten

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago

Well I walk and cycle, so no I really haven't noticed. But also I live in the UK so it actually hasn't changed that much.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

A 2012 Camry is longer than the tank too. So what? Weird metric to try to get a point across.

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

And neither have a turret mounted gun. So disappointing.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

I loved this.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Pfft go back to the 1980s you can get a woody that was 5.48m long. (I.e. Ford LTD Crown Victoria Country Squire).

[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 2 points 19 hours ago

The 80s and 90s had the coolest wagons

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 1 points 23 hours ago

Before it even moves the front end has already reached the destination.