It's irrelevant about the small car vs big car debate for me. We currently have at least two significant car, well currently van, trips a year. Last summer we did close to 1000 miles. We do a lot 6500 miles a year currently. The second trip last year was about 800 ish miles. So 1800 out of 6500 or 27% of our annual mileage comes from a heavily loaded trip with long distances travelled. That's not including weekend trips, trips to visit family once a month (parents getting old with on ill).
Then there's taxi duties. There's a reason all the families in our group of friends have bigger cars it's carrying kids and kit around. We're currently using a borrowed corsa and fitting 4 kids and driver plus kit it really feels sluggish and everyone is cramped in the back. It's an ICE corsa so I've no idea if the equivalent sized EV would beep as sluggish. It's just something we just can't go for. Not least because at 196cm I'm not built for a corsa sized car. It's just so uncomfortable driving or being a passenger. Getting a driving position is not great, I have to practically put the seat back, drop the seat and tilt it back too much for my liking to take my head off the ceiling of the car.
Most of our annual mileage I'd estimate to be based on 60 plus miles with a boot full of luggage. We don't use the car to commute. We probably do two 20 to 30 mile round trips a week on essentials. Add in a few local 5 mile each way trips locally. No doubt t a few more local trips of varying length but not great miles all adds up to 6500 miles per year. So I think we'd like a car to do trips up to say Oban or Fort William with 1 or 2 stops. With luggage. I think you'd need a bigger car, say an astra sized cat upwards. Currently if ICE we think a hyundai ix35 is the type of carb that suits our needs. We had one as a courtesy car when someone took our car out of action. It worked well for us.
