150 cars too big for modern parking spaces

As I regularly have to park in 1960's multi storey car parks when visiting clients I found that the (not outrageously huge) BMW 5 Series was simply too big for most spaces, and getting in through the pointlessly-high kerbs without scraping a diamond-cut rim was another layer of stress I didn't need, so I 'downsized' to a 3 series and even that's still pretty tight.

First trip I did some clown scraped my rear wing in a multi storey in York. As others have said, I would happily pay a premium for a bit more space, but I can't see that ever becoming an option.

I don't think it's ridiculous at all. Your car is a piece of personal property which you are using to help you get around more easily and conveniently. But it's still a very large piece of personal property which towns and cities and landowners are expected to store for you when you're not using it. But we've got used to this way of doing things because it makes life very convenient. But why should others bear the brunt of you deciding to bring your unnecessarily large piece of property to their car park? No, I think it's very reasonable that size limits can and should be set by councils and landowners on which you want to stash your private property. Make exemptions for people with large numbers of children or for disabled users.

Lots of people obviously require these massive cars to compensate for having something else that is tiny.

Don't get me started on the number of people who buy these cars and clearly have no skill to actually drive them. Staying within the white lines on a motorway, going around a corner and staying in the correct lane or even pulling into a side road without cutting the corner seem impossible skills for a lot of people.

No wonder cars have to be fitted with lane departure warning by default now.

I take it you've never read Orwell.

I can't remember the size of cars being mentioned in either Nineteen Eighty-Four or Animal Farm.

Besides, over-regulation is more of a Huxley theme, even then we're drawing a very long now.

I saw an Austin Maxi on the road yesterday and always remembered them as being a fairly large car when I was a kid but it looks pretty small by todays standards. It's the width that is the main problem I wouldn't mind if legislation came in to limit maximum width for a passenger car that required an extra classification on your licence to be able to drive an "extra large one" a bit like max weight.

My car is wider than it is tall, so I simply park it on its side.

Sadly too many of our society think they are something special and do act like ****s, they don't have the brainpower to realise they are the problem...

Your bit might be, but most of the country is not heavily populated.

Gotta laugh a little that just about every poster moaning about people having massive SUVs either have an SUV/ crossover listed in their garage or currently / previously owned a normal car that is longer / wider / heavier than a lot of SUVs, way bigger and heavier than my wife's SUV/crossover
One of them being wider, only a handspan shorter and very nearly as hefty as my full size American pickup truck

Surely all the PBDs with large cars/SUVs can simply use a second smaller car when venturing into the cities, or anywhere else which requires bay-parking?