It depends on the "job" your using the car for, typically a shorter car is more agile but given that a city or a cummute car(any cummute car) shouldn't matter I guess that's where it falls in preference or taste. Unless your planing to go through the city really fast all the time. Hit corners really fast all the time. And p.s. shorter cars will make easier turns.
You'd measure the length of a car in metres.
Bumper to Bumper
inches or Millimeters.
Meter
mm, cm or m.
feet The meter (m) is the international unit (in SI) for length.
what is the most suitable unit to measure the length of a car key
The UK Highway Code in discussing emergency stopping distances uses the average length of a car as about 4 m or 13 ft.
The metre, the yard or the foot.
4-5 1/2 meters
Average length of a car is 177.2 inch
What is a typical length of a small car?