What is the difference between and "car bomb", "massive car bomb", and "really big car bomb"?

Question

The number of deaths? Loudness, weight? Maybe we need a standardization that is understood by all readers, listeners and media outlets.

Answer 1

power of explosion, or potential explosion.

Answer 2

car bomb =  boom

massive =    bang

really big =   kaboom

they left out the next level  

huge explosion = bada bing bada boom

Answer 3

I think its somehow linked to miles per gallon.

Answer 4

the difference is "pipe bomb", "dynomite", and "C4"

actually its how big the shockwave is, some bombs can be loud and some make a big scene, but the perfect ones are the nicely compacted, pressurized ones that you can not only hear but feel go off hundreds of yards away.

Answer 5

Just laymans terms to indicate how much explosives were used

Answer 6

Media naming.  Ask the journalists, they think that c**p up.  Bottomline, a car bomb is a car bomb.

Answer 7

Pretty much -- yeah, number of deaths and loudness.

But does it really matter? It's like making a distinction between a serial killer who kills 5 people and one who kills 15.

Answer 8

The size of the BOOM!

Answer 9

Casualties, massive casualties and really big casualties.