Does anyone have the dimensions of the Rebel Landspeeder? According to wookiepedia, it's supposed to be 3.4m, which is 72.3mm in Legion scale. The model seems quite a bit bigger than that.

I think wookiepedia is wrong here no way this is 3.4m long , although if it excludes the nacelles it may be close

I think this was because it was based on a bond bug chassis which probably was that size

The Legion one is bigger than Luke's version. Considering that this is basically a "family car," there would probably be different versions, just like how some modern cars have hatchback, 2-door, or 4-door models. There's absolutely no reason why Sorosuub couldn't have made different versions, and this version is probably a bit faster and tougher than Luke's, so it would make sense for the Rebels to soup it up into a technical. Now, some people are going to have problems with this no matter what, since they are incapable of pulling their heads out of the movies for one second and realizing that it's a big galaxy ("Chewbacca is the only Wookiee in the Rebellion because that's what you see in the movieeeeeees!"), but the rest of us don't have a problem with it. It works better with the Huge base than Luke's version would, and a Large base would be just a bit too small.

Take the following picture

vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/5/54/X34-landspeeder.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080316031428

now from hip to top of head on threepio would be 3 feet or just shy of 1 metre. Now even if threepio's hips were touching the very bottom of the metal at the bottom of the speeder (ie he was sitting with no seat) then if you take this length to be 1 metre and see how many of these heights you can fit into the length you are talking more than 4 metre not counting the nacelle

The Bond Bug was in fact only ~2.8m long. That said, the closest I can find to info on the "proper" size of the X-34 is someone claiming they made a 1/6 replica based on exact measurements of the original prop at 71cm long, which would put it about 4.2m, or roughly 91mm in Legion scale. Since the Legion model is ~119mm including the rear nacelle, it's still pretty radically oversized at ~1:35 scale, assuming the 4.2m number is more accurate than the Databank.

The problem with the "different model" approach is it's not actually a different model in the car sense. It's not the same chassis but with extra seating, or a hatchback or whatever, it's the exact same chassis and all its original features, scaled up. Car makers don't just arbitrarily scale a vehicle up by ~30% in all dimensions, inside & out, and call it a new model.

4 hours ago, Yodhrin said:

The problem with the "different model" approach is it's not actually a different model in the car sense. It's not the same chassis but with extra seating, or a hatchback or whatever, it's the exact same chassis and all its original features, scaled up. Car makers don't just arbitrarily scale a vehicle up by ~30% in all dimensions, inside & out, and call it a new model.

Sorosuub might, though. It's not an insurmountable logical hurdle.

6 hours ago, Yodhrin said:

The problem with the "different model" approach is it's not actually a different model in the car sense. It's not the same chassis but with extra seating, or a hatchback or whatever, it's the exact same chassis and all its original features, scaled up. Car makers don't just arbitrarily scale a vehicle up by ~30% in all dimensions, inside & out, and call it a new model.

How do we "know" this isn't the hatchback version? The closed cargo area could be in the front.

The Subaru Crosstrek is just a scaled down Outback.

The Prius V was just a larger version of the Prius C.

So yes, car makers do produce larger (or smaller) versions of the same car and call them a different model.