Higher - lower - higher
10/05/2021
In the sixties (and before), a VW Beetle was 150 cm high, an Opel Rekord 149 cm. Then the cars became steadily flatter. In 1981, a VW Golf was still 141 cm high, while its competitor, the Opel Kadett, was another centimeter lower. The coupés popular at the time were often almost ten centimetres lower, with a VW Scirocco measuring 130.5 centimetres and an Opel Manta 132.5 centimetres. Flatter cars simply looked more elegant, and the cross-sectional area struggling with the airflow was also reduced.
And today? A VW ID.3 (pictured above) measures a whopping 156.8 centimeters in height. For the current VW Golf, the manufacturer specifies 146.6 to 149.8 centimeters, while the Tiguan even comes in at 163.2 to 167.4 centimeters. And the Opel Astra is also around 1.5 meters high.
In the course of the SUV-ization of the passenger car, the height specifications are growing, and electric cars also have a higher upward extension due to the space required for batteries in the floor. Even sports cars today are significantly less flat than they used to be. The Lamborghini Miura, for example, measured just 1.05 meters in height, the Aventador was already 1.136 meters, the Bugatti Chiron is now 1.212 meters high and a BMW i8 came in at a hefty 1.29 meters.
Where will this lead? Perhaps to sports cars that look like a squashed Lamborghini Urus. At least that's what the Giugiaro Vision 2030 presented at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este looks like to us ...
