compact car
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cars that are larger than a subcompact car but smaller than a mid-size car
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- car classification
- Subclass of
- car
- Image
- 2013 Honda Civic (FB2 MY13) VTi-L sedan (2018-10-01) 01.jpg
- Said to be same as
- C-segment
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- Commons category
- Compact cars
- topic's main category
- Category:Compact cars
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Encyclopedic overview
Compact car is a vehicle size class—predominantly used in North America—that sits between subcompact cars and mid-size cars. "Small family car" is a British term and a part of the C-segment in the European car classification. However, before the downsizing of the United States car industry in the 1970s and 1980s, larger vehicles with wheelbases up to 110 in (2.79 m) were considered "compact cars" in the United States.
United States
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “compact car” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.