Modern Cars No Longer Fit In Our Garages
Britain’s most popular cars have grown in size by almost a third in the last 50 years and no longer fit in our standard domestic car garages. The UK’s top five best-selling cars in 1970 had an average width of 1.5 metres and a length of 3.9 metres. But todays popular cars, are closer to 1.8m wide and 4.3m long (on average), making them over 30% bigger and therefore too large for our standard garages.
Garages have not adapted well to the car’s evolution with the average garage door width just 2.1m, leaving a mere 15 centimetres of clearance on each side of some of the most popular vehicles.
The number of cars on British roads has also increased. In 1970 there were around 8 million cars and in today (2021) there is an estimated 32 million. So between not being able to fit our cars in our garages along with the additional rise in cars, additional pressure is being placed on roadside parking spaces. This also explains why car park parking pays never seem to be big enough.
