Have you been 軍隊d to become a car-tortionist? New models are so wide that they leave only 30cm of space to get in and out when parked in a 基準 space
- Churchill 保険 says the 普通の／平均（する） popular family car is now 1.8 metres wide
- 基準 parking space width is 2.4m, leaving very little room to get in and out
- Fifth of drivers say they've entered their car 経由で the boot 予定 to 存在 unable to open the doors in car parks
The 増加するing size of the 最新の cars and growing 人気 of large SUVs means drivers are struggling to get in and out of their 乗り物s in car parks.?
A new 熟考する／考慮する 見積（る）s that when two 普通の／平均（する）-size new cars park next to each other in a 基準 bay, there leave just 30cm of space - the size of a child's 支配者 or the length of a Cornflakes box - to open the door.
As such, drivers and 乗客s say they've been 軍隊d to become 'car-tortionists', using acrobatic 技術s just to enter and 出口 モーターs in multi-storey and busy car parks.
A 投票 of 2,000 adults 設立する that one in five (22 per cent) have even had to 訴える手段／行楽地 climbing into a parked car 経由で the boot 予定 to the 欠如（する） of space to open the doors.
Are you a car-tortionist? UK 運転者s say they have had to 訴える手段／行楽地 to extreme acrobatic lengths to get in and out of their 乗り物s in car parks 予定 to the growing size of モーターs but parking spaces remaining the same since the 1970s. A fifth say they've got into their car 経由で the boot
Churchill 保険 says three ４半期/4分の1s (75 per cent) of drivers have been 軍隊d to squeeze themselves into their モーター when parked next to another 乗り物 in a car park, with two in five (40 per cent) having to do this at least once a month.?
Half (51 per cent) said the only way they have been able to 接近 their car is 経由で the 乗客 door, because there wasn’t room to open the driver’s 味方する.
As a result, 運転者s are regul arly 避けるing 確かな car parks altogether (57 per cent) they know have tight spaces.
The British Parking 協会's 1970s 指導基準s say the 最小限 size of a UK parking space needs to be 2.4 metres wide (and 4.8 metres long). Today's family cars are on 普通の／平均（する） 1.8 metres wide, leaving just 30cm either 味方する to open the door in a multi-storey
More than four in five (83 per cent) said they often 避ける empty spaces because another driver hasn't left enough room, while three ４半期/4分の1s (75 per cent) say they let 乗客s (含むing children) get out of the 乗り物 before parking to 避ける them - or cars next to them - banging doors into the other モーター's paintwork.
Churchill says the 問題／発行する is 予定 to the 拡大するing size of the 最新の モーターs.
Nearly a third (32 per cent) of 運転者s 投票d say their 現在の car is bigger than what they owned five years ago.?
The most ありふれた 推論する／理由s for 'going large' 含むs wanting more 内部の space for 高級な and 慰安 (8 per cent), liking the car design of a larger 乗り物 (8 per cent) and 要求するing more space for leisure and work 器具／備品 (7 per cent).?
But even 容積／容量-selling models once considered small or medium-sized are getting bigger.?
The 保険会社 took the tape 手段 to some of the UK’s popular family models, 含むing 2023's most-bought new car, the Ford Puma, the evergreen 小型の Hatchback and 容積／容量-selling VW ゴルフ, and 設立する the 普通の／平均（する） width is 1.8 metres.
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Most car park spaces - 特に in multi-storeys, at train 駅／配置するs and other large 場所／位置s - 手段 in at just 2.4 metres wide (and 4.8 metres in length).
This is the 最小限 規模 要求するd under British Parking 協会 指導基準s.
However, these have not been updated since the 1970s and are therefore no longer suitable for today's larger modern 乗り物s.
With the 普通の／平均（する） family car coming in at 1.8 metres wide, this leaves just 30cm of space either 味方する for 入ること／参加（者） and 出口.?
Peter O'Driscoll, managing director at cashless parking app, RingGo, said?‘自動車-obesity’ means there are already more than 150 car models that are too big for UK parking spaces.
'To 確実にする our cities 持続する liveable we need to strike a balance between the 環境 and road 管理／経営.?
'Although there are 存在するing 放出／発行s-based parking and road 支配するs in the UK, その上の steps still need to be taken.?
'Something we are already 証言，証人／目撃するing in areas like Islington is the introduction of higher parking 居住（者） 許す costs for heavier EVs.?
'The 負わせる of 乗り物s could form a much wider part of the price we 支払う／賃金 to park a car in our cities in the 未来.'
Churchill's 報告（する）／憶測 comes after market 分析 by a green （選挙などの）運動をするing group earlier this year 示唆するd that SUVs - which have overtaken family hatchbacks in the last １０年間 to become the second most popular 乗り物 type in the UK - are now far too big for Britain's roads.
輸送（する） & 環境 (T&E) said in January that more than half of new cars in showrooms today are too wide to park because they （期間が）わたる over 1.8 metres.
Its 報告（する）／憶測 設立する the 普通の／平均（する） new car has swollen in size to 180.3cm - or 200cm with the wing mirrors out.?
And the 選挙運動者s 解雇する／砲火／射撃d a broadside at enormous 'mega SUVs' like Audi's Q8 and BMW's X7, which are 200cm wide on 普通の／平均（する）, or 220cm inclusive of the wing mirrors.
As such, T&E （人命などを）奪う，主張するd these 乗り物s were 軍隊ing cyclists off the road 予定 to a 欠如（する） of space.
The green think 戦車／タンク called for UK 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'.
Wide 負担: 輸送（する） & 環境 says the wider cars are not only unable to park in on-street bays, they are leaving いっそう少なく room for other road 使用者s
The 2020 範囲 Rover (権利) is far bigger than the 初めの from the 1970s (left). The 2020 model takes up almost 90% of 利用できる bay space
The tenth 世代 Honda 市民の (left), one of the biggest growers from its first 世代, now takes up 71%. This has ballooned from 49% in the first 世代 (権利)
Today's 小型の Hatch (権利) is 55% bigger than the 小型の that would have been used on UK roads 50 years ago
A 1990 Peugeot 205 GTI (left) is 1,589mm wide. The French brand's supermini of today - the 208 (権利) - 対策 in at 1,745mm across. That's an 増加する in breadth of 10% in 30 years
The colossal Hummer EV is the widest モーター you can buy in Britain at 2.3 metres wide. That's almost the 十分な width of a UK parking space
This infographic shows just how much a Hummer EV dwarfs other large SUVs, like the 範囲 Rover and Rolls-Royce Cullinan. The Ford Fiesta is over a metre narrower than the US 乗り物?
How much bigger are cars today compared to before??
How to quickly check the width of your car?
If you don't want to go outside with a tape 手段, there's an 平易な way to find out the dimensions - 含むing width - of your car.
Website Parkers has a car specs checker, which 許すs you to enter your number plate and it will 供給する all the specifications for your particular model.
This 含むs dimensions in section 3, which tells you the width of your car in millimetres with the wing mirrors out.?
Churchill also looked at examples of by how much popular cars have grown over the 世代s.
The much-beloved 小型の on sale today is a staggering 34cm wider than the 1959 初めの, 反して the Vauxhall Corsa which has 広げるd by 24cm since 存在 first introduced to UK roads in 1982 as the Nova.
The bulging size of the 最新の cars has seen an 増加する in drivers breaking parking 支配するs by using bays reserved for those with disabilities or small children.
Over a ４半期/4分の1 (28 per cent) of the 2,000 drivers 調査するd admitting to using a special 指定するd parking space, such as a parent and child or accessible space for blue badge 支えるもの／所有者s, when they’re not 適格の to do so.
Nicholas Mantel, 長，率いる of Churchill モーター 保険, said: 'Ask almost any driver and they will have a story about having to creatively escape their car 予定 to a 欠如（する） of space when in a car park, even はうing out through the boot.?
'広げるing cars 連合させるd with parking bays that 港／避難所’t been redesigned to 融通する today’s models, means 運転者s all over the country are at 危険 of 損失ing their cars through no fault of their own.'
| 1970s Make & Model | Space to open door (cm) | Area of parking space used up | Today's Make & Model | Space to open door (cm) | Area of parking space used up | % 増加する in area |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morris/Austin/ Rover 小型の (1959-2000) | 50 | 37% | MINI Hatch 3dr (2014-) | 34 | 57% | 55% |
| Fiat 500 (1957-1975) | 54 | 34% | Fiat 500 (2007-) | 39 | 50% | 47% |
| Honda 市民の 1st?Gen (1972-1979) | 45 | 49% | Honda 市民の 10th?Gen (2016-) | 30 | 71% | 44% |
| Peugeot 104 (1972-1988) | 44 | 43% | Peugeot 208 2nd?Gen (2019-) | 33 | 61% | 42% |
| Renault 5 (1972-1985) | 44 | 47% | Renault Clio V (2019-) | 30 | 63% | 36% |
| Mazda 323 3rd?Gen (1977-1980) | 40 | 53% | Mazda 3 4th?Gen (2019-) | 30 | 70% | 31% |
| Audi 80 (1972-1978) | 40 | 58% | Audi A4 B9 (2016-) | 28 | 76% | 30% |
| VW Passat B1 (1973-1981) | 40 | 58% | VW Passat B8 (2015-) | 28 | 76% | 30% |
| Vauxhall Nova A (1982-1993) | 43 | 48% | Vauxhall Corsa F (2019-) | 32 | 62% | 29% |
| VW ゴルフ MK1 (1974-1983) | 40 | 52% | VW ゴルフ MK8 (2020) | 31 | 67% | 28% |
| Ford 護衛する MKII (1974-1980) | 42 | 54% | Ford 焦点（を合わせる） MKIV (2018-) | 29 | 69% | 28% |
| VW Polo MK1 (1975-1981) | 42 | 49% | VW Polo MK6 (2018-) | 32 | 62% | 26% |
| Ford Fiesta MK1 (1976-1983) | 42 | 48% | Ford Fiesta MK8 (2017-) | 33 | 61% | 25% |
| 範囲 Rover Classic (1969-1996) | 31 | 69% | 範囲 Rover L405 (2012-) | 21 | 86% | 25% |
| Toyota Corolla 3rd?Gen (1974-1981) | 42 | 54% | Toyota Corolla 12th?Gen (2019-) | 31 | 68% | 25% |
| Ford Cortina MKIV (1976-1979) | 35 | 64% | Ford Mondeo MKIV (2014-) | 27 | 78% | 22% |
| Vauxhall Cavalier MK1 (1975-1981) | 37 | 64% | Vauxhall Insignia B (2017-) | 27 | 79% | 24% |
| BMW 3 Series E21 (1975-1983) | 40 | 61% | BMW 3 Series G20 (2019-) | 29 | 75% | 23% |
| Vauxhall Astra MK1 (1979-1984) | 38 | 57% | Vauxhall Astra MK7 (2015-) | 30 | 69% | 21% |
| Peugeot 304 (1969-1980) | 42 | 56% | Peugeot 308 2nd?Gen (2013-) | 29 | 67% | 19% |
| BMW 5 Series E12 (1972-1981) | 36 | 68% | BMW 5 Series G30 (2017-) | 27 | 80% | 17% |
| Mercedes 190 (1982-1988) | 36 | 64% | Mercedes C-class 4th Gen (2014-) | 30 | 74% | 14% |
| Mercedes W123 (1976-1986) | 31 | 73% | Mercedes E-class 5th?Gen (2017-) | 27 | 79% | 8% |
| Source: CarGurus (2020)? | ? | ? | ? | |||
Rise in （人命などを）奪う，主張するs as a result of bigger 乗り物s?
Drivers squeezing in and out of their car isn’t the only consequence of cars 広げるing.?
The 損失 原因（となる）d by 運転者s hitting another 乗り物, or 捨てるing 塀で囲むs and bollards, when getting in or out of parking bays costs UK 運転者s an 概算の £424million every year, Churchill said.?
A third (30 per cent) of drivers had their car 損失d in a car park in the last year, with the 普通の／平均（する） cost of 修理ing the 損失 coming in at £223.50.?
Just 7 per cent said the person who 原因（となる）d the 損失 paid for the 修理s, whilst over a third (37 per cent) of 回答者／被告s 認める that the 損失 was still there.
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