How Big Is Your Cup?

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 07/29/2015 at 17:14 • Filed to: None

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What is the optimal cutout diameter for an automobile cup holder?

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/29/2015 at 17:22

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A car cup holder can be 2.5 to 3 inches in diameter. The average size is 2 9/16 inches.

At least, according to Misty Osgood , whoever that is.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/29/2015 at 17:24

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I don’t know that there is one - if there is, it would be the size that’s about 5/8 the way up a solo cup. That seems to be the size the “deliberately oversize” drinks with a small bottom seem to be aiming to fit, and anything larger just doesn’t hold anything small well at all. I think it would be possible to go just slightly larger and fit nearly everything securely if the bottom of the cupholder adjusted rather than grip diameter, but I don’t think any automakers have ever done that. It would be possible to seat any cup with taper to a good depth that way without crushing the sides...

Takuro Spirit > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/29/2015 at 17:38

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“soft cup only”

KirkyV > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/29/2015 at 17:40

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Whichever size the gap between my passenger seat and door is. So far, it’s handled pretty much every fast food cup I’ve thrown at it—I think it helps that the seat, being, well, a seat, is flexible.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/29/2015 at 17:42

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I would go to 7-11 or some fast food joint and order their large drink, the one that is fat on the top but skinnier on the bottom. Take it home and measure it. You can bet that the fast food companies have already done a ton of research on this.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/29/2015 at 17:56

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Give me a number.

Manic Otti > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 07/29/2015 at 18:18

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Here’s a cupholder story. My cupholders are in the console staggered next to each other to save room. I used to commute 20 miles, and it was 90 degrees that day, so I stopped at starbucks and got a iced tea. I also smoke, and my car didn’t have an ashtray, so I was using an old cup from a few days before that had some ice that had melted in it as an ashtray. So, I have two cups, one filled with refreshing iced tea, one filled with a disgusting soup of cigarette butts that had been dissolving and fermenting in 90 degree heat for several days. I was about 4 miles from my freeway exit, when I grabbed the wrong cup, and without looking, took a sip. As soon as the warm liquidy grossness hit my mouth, I knew what I had done and spit it back into the cup through the straw. There was much mouth rinsing when I got home that day. Then I went and bought one of those “fire extinguisher cup” ashtrays.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Manic Otti 07/29/2015 at 18:31

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That’s Karma’s way of telling you to quit smoking or take up vaping. But I admire your courage for sharing the story.

When I was in the Army, there was this gross b@$+ard named Hamlin who one day took a sip from a communal spit cup. Now, that’s gross.