Or you're perhaps too precious and fussy about cars? I've had 10K miles road trips in smaller (European sized) cars, and they're just fine...

I can somewhat see how being American-sized in a European car could be uncomfortable...

Oh you just reminded me of “because of olive oil”

https://vimeo.com/107658022

Aren't many Europeans just as tall or taller than Americans tho (e.g. Dutch, nordic people)?

Though, waist wise, that would be true...

Yeah I was referring to girth/width...

I drive a European seven seater diesel car - plenty of space for three adults - and I get better than 55 mpg on road trips.

YMMV, of course. ;)

It was a 2008 Seat Leon diesel. We managed fine, and even managed 200 kph on the autobahn (perhaps a bit under 50 MPG there..)

We drove around 5000 miles from Barcelona to nice to Florence to Geneva to Offenburg to Bremen to Luxembourg to Amsterdam to Brugges to Paris to Barcelona. It was fucking awesome - and to tell you the truth I really, really understand what "trip of a lifetime" means now that I've never really recreated that experience.

Three good friends on an adventure together (first time to Europe for all of us!) in a new and interesting place in our mid 20's when we were all single and had jobs we didn't care too much about was a pretty damn great recipe, and we still joke about the football Cheetos floating around the back of the car from the first day of the trip.

Ah, a Canyonero fan :).

https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Canyonero