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    More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space

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    1. WGSMA on

      One of the best things the Gov could do is legislate a weight limit on cars. Force them to be smaller.

      Insurance goes down. Road wear goes down. Crash fatalities go down. Everyone is a winner.

    2. MerakiBridge on

      Em, wouldn’t the answer be to increase the size of the standard parking space (which was recently increased from 2.4×4.8 to 2.5×5.0).

    3. Harrry-Otter on

      I say this every time on SUV threads, but it’s become a bit of an arms race situation with cars.

      U.K. streets are in a pretty bad way, an SUV is better at dealing with potholes and badly maintained roads than your average low hatchback. I’m not surprised “normal” cars are becoming less popular.

    5. BeardedBaldMan on

      >Large SUVs, which are either more than 1.8 metres wide or 4.8 metres long

      That’s my Ford Focus estate which is hardly a large car. It’s 1.825 x 4.6m

    6. bugtheft on

      It’s an arms race – and without intervention, it will spiral out of control.

      We all pay the price: parking, congestion, potholes, and much worse safety, especially for pedestrian children.

      We need to tax by weight and footprint. Raise rates sharply at the top end, and make smaller cars cheaper. Emissions-based tax is obsolete in the age of hybrids and EVs.

    7. Farewell-Farewell on

      These wide cars are destroying country roads, where the road edges are being flattened and potholed. Just my obseravtion.

    8. No_Aesthetic on

      We need to just ban oversized American beasts. If you let this shit take over your country, you will be atonished how much everything has to change to handle them. I’ve seen enough of them in my lifetime already. Just end it.

    9. HotelPuzzleheaded654 on

      I don’t drive a big car and nor do I have a problem with others driving big cars.

      Live and let live.

    10. LoquaciousLord1066 on

      This isn’t just down to people in cities driving Chelsea tractors.

      Cars have gotten much larger overall. Increased safety measures meaning larger crumple zones for example.

      They’re not going to get smaller with more electric models being built either.

      It’s probably time to increase the minimum size of parking spaces.

    11. CumbrianByNight on

      It’s not just the width, it’s the height and power of their headlights. If there’s going to be legislation about anything involving these cars, not dazzling other drivers has to be top priority for me.

    12. Duanedoberman on

      I drive a small city car and the size of some cars is insane. It’s not like they are necessary, most are used on the school run or to go and get a bag of shopping at the supermarket, but it does seem to have become a competition to outdo the other parent.

      Also, I have noticed that the size of a car has an almost direct correlation to the toxic attitude of the owner and their inability to park within the rules the rest of us adhere to.

    13. WhiskersMcGee09 on

      Bought a BMW iX last year.

      Wonderful car, best I’ve ever had. Literally cannot park it for shit though and it’s too long for anything which isn’t an American Mall type parking space.

    14. WhiskersMcGee09 on

      Bought a BMW iX last year.

      Wonderful car, best I’ve ever had. Literally cannot park it for shit though and it’s too long for anything which isn’t an American Mall type parking space.

    15. catfriend000 on

      How about making bigger parking spaces. You know, acting like a first world country that adapts to changing technology. Instead of the endless embrace of backwards luddite shitholedom that the UK currently is.

    19. Wolf_Cola_91 on

      I’ve never understood the desire to have a car so big so you struggle to park it or pass through narrow streets. 

      Wouldn’t that just make driving so much more stressful?

    21. Future-Warning-1189 on

      The worst part is it also feels like new car parks are getting smaller as well. Even average width saloons that have became wider over time due to extra safety and sound deadening (among just general increases in width). If you ever have to park in between two SUVs, you just have to accept you’re not getting out the car, or it’s getting smashed into by the other drivers doors.