Ok so two posts on this is a bit much but I wanted to compare the Charlotte and Utah vehicles side by side. These are for you Gordon. It looks as if the UTA vehicles are even shorter than the Charlotte LRVs and much shorter than the Houston LRVs which are all the same series. I had read before that this was done to accommodate four car trains.
Utah Transit Authority
Courtesy of UTA
Charlotte CATS
Via Willamore Media Creative Commons on Flickr.
Houston Metro
Via Word Junky Creative Commons on Flickr.
Bonus video footage from today's car unveiling and wow is it going out into the boonies. Better do it right.