I don’t agree on the Prius. The 2026 version has worse consumption and a smaller trunk so it could look more like any other SUV. People buy these cause they are the best economics for the size and Toyota made it more like “what they think a phev suv should look like”. I’d say that’s the opposite of your point.

In c they do indeed just mean shorter and longer int as the size of the int is defined by the compiler and target and originally represented the hardware.

There are types like int32_t or int_least16_t.