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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sian Norris

More than 150 car models too big for regular UK parking spaces

A car park
The analysis showed that 161 car models as tested were longer than a standard bay, up from 129 in 2019. Photograph: Mark Waugh/Alamy

More than 150 car models are now too big to fit in average car parking spaces, according to analysis conducted by Which?.

While the size of the standard parking bay has remained static for decades, cars have been growing longer and wider in a phenomenon known as “autobesity”.

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