There is no pissing contest with brakes ouside the supercar realm. The reason brakes are getting bigger in general is because cars are getting heavier every year. Heavier cars need bigger brakes to have the same braking performance as a lighter car with smaller brakes. Now if you take that smaller car and put bigger brakes on it...forget it, what's the point of repeating myself again.
And no, swept area doesn't have a lot to do with it. Hell, a lot of the big brake systems leave a lot of rotor face untouched and it's all good, because the important part is the effective lever provided by the pad against a large-diameter rotor. s
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