I don't use hire cars very often - usually just when I have a courtesy car if my own car is out of action for some reason, or occasionally if I am travelling. Every single time I do, I request a small car. Every single time, I am given something massive. It's just happened again (my car was dinked in a minor collision and I have a replacement car while it is being fixed) and the guy who delivered it, when I commented on how huge it is, said that in their terms it is a small car just because it's not a fecking 7-seater people carrier. It is 50cm longer and 30cm wider than my normal car and it doesn't fit on my driveway. Next time I need a hire car how do I actually get them to give me something that is actually small?
And why is there this trend for enormous cars anyway? It's bad enough to have to burn the fuel to shift 900kg of metal around but the entirely unnecessary extra weight to bump that up to 1,600kg is just pissing away petrol for no good reason.