Is your car too big for the road? Our interactive graphics show how popular models outgrew UK parking spaces - here's how to find out if yours is too fat

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Half of new cars sold in Britain are too big to fit into parking bays.

That's the 警告 from green （選挙などの）運動をする group 輸送（する） & 環境 (T&E) this week, which calculated that new models sold in the UK are growing 1cm wider every two years.

It new 報告（する）／憶測 設立する the 普通の／平均（する） width of a new モーター sold in Britain last year was 180.3cm with the wing mirrors 倍のd - or 200cm with the mirrors out. That's wider than than the 普通の／平均（する） on-street parking bay in major cities like London, which are just 180cm across.

T&E also 解雇する／砲火／射撃d a broadside at a 産む／飼育する it 名付ける／吹き替えるs 'mega SUVs' - which are 200cm wide on 普通の／平均（する）, or 220cm 含むing their wing mirrors - 告発する／非難するing them of 存在 so 幅の広い that they are いじめ（る）ing cyclists off the road.

製造業者s have defended the fact 乗客 cars are growing in size, 説 the 拡大 is to 改善する 衝突，墜落 保護 for occupants. They say the switch to EVs with larger 殴打／砲列 packs is also 延長するing the 規模 of the 最新の cars.

Our interactive infographics show how popular new models 手段 up against parking spaces in Britain, and shows how the width of cars has grown from 2000 to today.

We'll also tell you how to quickly and easily find the dimensions of your car so you can size it up against an 普通の／平均（する） parking bay.?

Half of new cars too wide for on-street parking bays?

T&E's 熟考する／考慮する 設立する that the 普通の／平均（する） width of new cars (not 含むing the wing mirrors) 拡大するd by 2.5cm between 2017 (177.8cm) and 2023 (180.3cm).

It says more than half of new cars sold in 2023 were already too wide for the 最小限 180cm on-street parking space in major UK cities.?

This is making 合法的に parking large and 高級な SUVs impossible - and can result in 罰金s if the 乗り物 is outside the 指定するd white lines.

Historical data held by the International 会議 on Clean Transportation (ICCT) dating 支援する 20 years shows that this has been an 現在進行中の 傾向.

Its most 最近の market 分析 shows that the 普通の／平均（する） new car sold in Britain has gotten 1cm wider every two years dating 支援する to 2000.

Only Germany had wider new cars on sale than the UK in 2023, T&E's 熟考する／考慮する （人命などを）奪う，主張するd.?

Green 選挙運動者s have pointed the finger at the 増加するd availability and 人気 of SUVs.

In 最近の years, SUVs have overtaken family hatchbacks to become the second most popular 乗り物 type in the UK - and are only marginally outsold by small cars each year.

排除的 new car market 分析 by This is Money showed just how much SUV sales have 加速するd in Britain in the last １０年間 against other 乗客 乗り物 types.

支援する in 2013, 公式の／役人 登録s data shows that two in five (39.5 per cent) of all new 乗客 cars entering the road were superminis and city cars.

While they still remain the most 一般的に 購入（する）d new cars today, they 代表するd just one in three (30.4 per cent) 登録s in 2023 - and it is the SUV that's eating into their market dominance.

A １０年間 ago, '二重の 目的' sports 公共事業（料金）／有用性 乗り物s 代表するd only 11 per cent of the market.?

But a にわか景気 in 需要・要求する in 最近の years has seen SUVs 追いつく family hatches to become the nation's second most popular car type, making up 28.6 per cent of all 登録s.

The T&E 報告（する）／憶測 identified 確かな examples as having grown 大幅に, 含むing?the new 世代 Land Rover Defender 存在 20cm wider than the old 4x4, and BMW's X5 growing 6cm in the last six years.

In 2023, the 普通の／平均（する） new Volvo - a brand that is 溝へはまらせる／不時着するing 従来の cars in favour of SUVs?- sold in the UK was 4.1cm wider compared to the year previous.

The widest SUV 現在／一般に sold in the UK - though in very 限られた／立憲的な numbers - is the electric?Hummer EV.

London-based 高級な car 売買業者 Clive Sutton is 輸入するing the electric beast for UK 顧客s - though with a width of 230cm, it is half a metre too 厚い to fit in an on-street parking bay in cities like London.?

T&E believes these hulking Chelsea tractors are 'piling yet more 圧力 on roads from competing uses'.?

Its 報告（する）／憶測 said: 'The 傾向 に向かって wider 乗り物s is 減ずるing the road space 利用できる for other 乗り物s and cyclists, while parked cars are その上の encroaching on footpaths.?

'The wider designs have also enabled the 高さ of 乗り物s to be その上の raised, にもかかわらず 衝突，墜落 data showing a 10cm 増加する in the 高さ of 乗り物 前線s carries a 30 per cent higher 危険 of fatalities in 衝突／不一致s with 歩行者s and cyclists.'?

Sarah McMonagle, director of 外部の 事件／事情／状勢s at Cycling UK, agreed, 説 drivers of the largest SUVs on the road are often those who are 'most?likely to pass people cycling more closely than those 運動ing narrower ones'.?

She says this is 特に the 事例／患者 on 狭くする 田舎の 小道／航路s or on 居住の streets with lots of parking, which often sees those on bikes 'いじめ（る）d off the road to make way'.?

Are new cars too big for supermarket parking spaces?

A 2020 熟考する／考慮する 設立する the growing size of new cars is making parking an ますます difficult 仕事 for Britons.

This is because the 伝統的な parking space at a supermarket or multistorey car park has remained 不変の for half a century.?

Car owners are 存在 left with almost no room to squeeze out of their cars in public car parks, which have space sizes that have remained 一貫した since the 1970s.

A comparison of 乗り物s on sale in and the 類似の models from 50 years earlier showed that some モーターs had 拡大するd by as much as 55 per cent - and big SUVs were 設立する to be taking up almost 90 per cent of a parking space (more now that sizes have grown in the 勝つ／広く一帯に広がるing four years).

Parking 指導基準s 港／避難所't changed in 50 years, with the 必要物／必要条件 for public bays to be 8 feet (2.4 metres) wide by 16 feet (4.8 metres) long.

The British Parking 協会 (BPA) says that these dimensions are 'neither 最小限 nor written in tablets of 石／投石する' and 会議s and car park 操作者s are 解放する／自由な to 指定する their own bay 測定s.

However, it remains the most ありふれた size used to 確実にする a 最大限 容積／容量 of parking spaces.?

While this might have been 十分な for mainstream 乗り物s in the 1970s, it is starting to put a squeeze on 21st century drivers.

In the most extreme example, car buying 壇・綱領・公約 CarGurus 設立する that a 2020 範囲 Rover takes up to 86 per cent of a 基準 car park bay, leaving just 21cm of room for drivers to get out.?

In contrast, the 1970s model took up just 69 per cent - the same 足跡 as today's Ford 焦点（を合わせる）.??

The Honda 市民の is another that is taking up a lot more parking space.

Today's model fills 71 per cent of a 基準-sized bay, ballooning from 49 per cent in the first 世代 from 1972.

The 小型の is another 相当な grower. Today's is 55 per cent larger and taking up 20 per cent more of the typical parking space than the 初めの that was produced between 1959 and 2000. This means it 申し込む／申し出s 16cm いっそう少なく room for drivers to get out.

The Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, BMW 5 Series, Ford 焦点（を合わせる）, Ford Mondeo, Mercedes E-class, Peugeot 308, Vauxhall Insignia and VW Passat have also all grown 意味ありげに compared to their 50-year-old 同等（の）s to leave drivers with いっそう少なく than 30cm space to 出口 the 乗り物, the 報告（する）／憶測 said.

選挙運動者s call for 乗客 cars to be no wider than 1.9 metres?

T&E wants to see 政府 介入 to 制限する new cars growing in size.

現在／一般に, new models sold in the UK are 支配する to the same 255cm 最大限 width as buses and トラックで運ぶs.?

The （選挙などの）運動をする group has called for a review to be carried out about these 支配するs before Britain's streets are 打ち勝つ with 過度の 乗り物s.

It went on to say that the UK's 法律制定 around 乗り物 width is still that 相続するd from pre-Brexit EU 支配するs - and therefore can be reviewed 独立して by the UK 政府.?

It says a 委任統治（領）d width 限界 for cars - which should also be 法律 for EU markets - should be introduced from 2030 to 妨げる 乗客 cars taking up more street space.

Some 3 per cent of new cars sold in the first half of last year were wider than 192.1cm, which T&E said should be 始める，決める as a new 最大限 限界.?

Richard Hebditch, director for T&E UK, said: 'The 傾向 of cars getting wider has been 進歩ing for １０年間s and that 傾向 will continue until the UK 始める，決めるs 厳格な人 限界s.?

'現在／一般に we 許す new cars to be as wide as トラックで運ぶs. This has meant our roads are now home to big SUVs and American style 選ぶ-up トラックで運ぶs that are parking on our footpaths, 危うくするing 歩行者s and cyclists and making everyone else on our roads いっそう少なく 安全な.'

Cycling UK seconded T&E's approach.

Sarah McMonagle said: 'We need 政府 活動／戦闘 to stop モーター 製造業者s fuelling our 中毒 to ever more obese cars.?

'Bigger cars are not better, they're いっそう少なく 維持できる, make our roads more dangerous, and （問題を）取り上げる more space, 増加するing congestion.'

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