I don’t know where these people get their information from – or who explains it to them!
This stupid article from ChoiceQuote reckons British cars are “bigger than the average parking space”. So you’d be forgiven for thinking that this means all – or the majority of – cars on British roads are too big.
The simple fact is that the vast majority of British cars are perfectly sized to fit in any standard parking space. ChoiceQuote is simply talking crap.
Apparently, the Department for Transport states that a parking bay must be a maximum of 5’ 11” wide (180cm), and this has not changed since 1994.
A BMW X6 is 6’ 6” wide, and an X5 is 6’ 4” wide. And of course, at around £50,000 a pop, just about everyone is driving around in one of those. Not. Even an X3 is £30,000.
Normal people drive normal cars. Fortunately, the majority of the population IS normal, and they drive cars that fit in parking bays. Well, if they park them properly, anyway.
This website is quite useful – ChoiceQuote should have used it before writing a stupid story for the tabloids.
There are over 31 million cars on the road in the UK. About 113,000 of them are BMW X3s, X5s, and X6s – which equates to less than 0.4%. Of course, there are other large 4×4 vehicles, but altogether they still account for only a few per cent of the total.
So, quite how ChoiceQuote manages to twist this into “British cars bigger than the average parking space” is anyone’s guess.
They’re just totally wrong.