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Sorry that's not a source, and is seemingly contradicted by sources like [1], which say

>The highest-selling full-size car nameplate is the Chevrolet Impala, sold as a full-size car from 1958 to 1986, 1994 to 1996, and then from 2000 until 2020.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-size_car

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I love that we've come to an era where supposedly educated people are in the habit of telling others that the use of their senses and mind to understand the world are invalid because someone didn't put the conclusions on a website.

I realize you don’t think so but this really is a good thing. Memory is faulty, and the parent poster was simply incorrect.

How is that a good thing? The internet is a dumpster fire of half truths, infotainment, and objective falsehoods. I'll take human memory with all its warts over most of what's on the web any day.

The irony here is that the comment itself that's up for discussion (ie. whether a car is "full size") is also on the internet, and therefore I can flip your argument of "internet is a dumpster fire of half truths, infotainment, and objective falsehoods. I'll take human memory with all its warts over most of what's on the web any day" right back at you. What makes one random commenter's assertion that it's a full sized car more correct than another comment that claims the opposite?

"full-size" is an objective, standardized designation for automobiles [1] so it really doesn't MATTER what someone's "senses and mind" are in that specific statement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_size_class

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