“B-segment” Cars: What Are They?
I subscribe to four car magazines, and recently they’ve
all mentioned "B-segment" cars without defining the term.
What does this mean? I gather that these are small cars,
more or less along the lines of the Scion xA. Well and
good. But there must be something more to it than that,
otherwise there’d be no need for the new term.
Written by Blogmaker on April 25th, 2006 with
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#1. May 25th, 2007, at 1:40 AM.
The term b-segment is based on the size of the car’s “platform”. Typically auto manufacturers have grouped their vehicles into “segments” of A, B, C, etc.
B-Segment cars are what we in the U.S. would typically refer to as, “sub-compact”.
C-Segment would be what we call “compact”. Cars like the Honda Civic, Ford Focus, etc.
U.S. journalists have taken to calling sub-compacts by the European term and that is why you are hearing the name more and more.