What if the current corollas were RWD? Would they be Veeky Forums approved?

Why is the gt86 so expensive compared to the fiesta? They are around the same price over here

I sometimes forget how fucking enormous modern cars are. I saw a hatchback parked up next to an old Land Rover recently, and they were pretty much the same size bar ride-height. It's nuts.

Is there some sort of regulation in place that doesn't allow manufacturers to make small cars anymore?

The Dutch taxation system taxes based on grams of CO2 per km. It also works with brackets. I don't have the exact numbers on hand, but as an example :
Volvo v60 plugin: 49 g/km, it's in the first bracket, which is 1 to 50 g/km. The first 50 grams are for example 6 euros per gram of CO2 as taxation.

Fun RWD coupe, brand HerpDerp, 200 g/km, will be for example in bracket 3. The first 50 grams are 6 euros per gram. The second bracket from 50 grams to 150 grams of CO2 are 25 euros per gram. So that's 100 × 25 euros. The last 50 grams may be 150 euros per gram.

Kind of a weird explanation, apologies. But the emissions are kind of exponentially taxed. Basically a having-nice-things taxes. The aforementioned tax is a tax specifically for cars. Sales tax is 21%

I'm willing to bet there's a lot more space inside the Corolla. Modern safety standards can go lick a battery.

Front wheel drive is generally more fuel efficient. Fuel efficiency is key for making Joe Average and EPA CAFE happy.

occupancy space doesnt change, for the most part, depending on the car, but cars have to be so much bigger because they need to be able to absorb impacts and protect the occupants

in the OP post for example, a head on collision at 50mph will almost certainly kill the occupant of the smaller car. while the driver of the FRS might have a few broken ribs

sorry
not in ops pic
this pic

Here's a screenshot famalam. It's in Dutch but the words are pretty much readable in English. It also says a diesel car's CO2 has an additional 86 bucks per gram above 65g/km. This is to discourage those mini diesel engines like the punto, or a french 1.2 diesel

THIS is why I'm leaving the Netherlands for the US once I'm done studying medicine. Car taxes are used to pay for everything including rapefugees, """""""free"""""""" healthcare and crap like that. Less than 8% of the car taxes are actually used for roads 'n shit.