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Originally Posted by Lucky13
3 Series is a large car? Toyota Corolla is 182.6 inches long, Chevy Cruze is 181 inches and 3 series 182.5. Better tell all those Corolla and Cruze owners they are driving large cars around, by the way those two are either classified as small or compact by all sources.
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Your examples are 4-door compact grocery getters. HBSpeed is talking about sports cars. His point is that if you're going to package a car with an I4 for the purposes of being lightweight sports coupe, then you shouldn't stack the deck against yourself from the outset. That seems like a fair point.
To provide some context, look at some well regarded I4 powered sports (oriented) cars:
Lotus Elise: 149 inches
Mazda Miata: 157.3 inches
Subaru BRZ: 166.7 inches
Audi TT: 165.3 inches
Mercedes Benz SLK: 162.8 inches
Mini Cooper JCW: 146.8 inches
M235i 174.5 inches
This all, of course, comes down to personal preference, but HBSpeed's point stands. BMW has started with a rather large platform, which will work against them if they're going for a lightweight sports coupe.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.