Tightest parallel parking - Guinness World Record

[toovo1985]

The tightest parallel parking measured 26 cm (10.24 in) and was achieved by Ronny Wechselberger a.k.a. "Ronny C-Rock" (Germany) on the set of Guinness World Records - Wir holen den Rekord nach Deutschland in Berlin, Germany on 2 April 2011.

Here is the video: http://www.autoviva.com/member.php?id=1035&sec...

[CraigyMc]

toovo1985 said:

The tightest parallel parking measured 26 cm (10.24 in) and was achieved by Ronny Wechselberger a.k.a. "Ronny C-Rock" (Germany) on the set of Guinness World Records - Wir holen den Rekord nach Deutschland in Berlin, Germany on 2 April 2011.

Here is the video: http://www.autoviva.com/member.php?id=1035&sec...

Pointless. I've seen Paul Swift do better than that in real life umpteen times.

C

[Sonofabeesting]

Nice, would love to able to do that outside my house!

[davidjpowell]

Not really a parallel park was it. More like a handbrake park.

[saaby93]

Is that parallelor U turn parking
and 10.24"
Did they really measure the distance to the nearest hundredth of an inch?
Bet it was measured to the nearest centimetre i.e 26cm not 25 or 27 cm
So the inches could be measured to the nearest 1/2 or 1/4 inch
10 1/4 inches
Otherwise tolerance is implicit in the number of decimal places
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Smile

[C2james]

saaby93 said:

Is that parallelor U turn parking
and 10.24"
Did they really measure the distance to the nearest hundredth of an inch?
Bet it was measured to the nearest centimetre i.e 26cm not 25 or 27 cm
So the inches could be measured to the nearest 1/2 or 1/4 inch
10 1/4 inches
Otherwise tolerance is implicit in the number of decimal places
End of

Smile

someone has a little german in them this morning.

[Most Dope]

CraigyMc said:

Pointless. I've seen Paul Swift do better than that in real life umpteen times.

C

Why is it pointless, it was a world record attempt?

I've seen both Paul and Russ perform plenty of times and whilst their both good (very good), I've not seen either get that close.

[Superhoop]

When Paul Swift does this, I don't recall him needing a trail of sand laid out to make it easier to slide the car round either

[toovo1985]

It's a stunt made for TV and ina TV studio...maybe it's not the best but he went there and showed what he knows, and got the money :P

[KrazyIvan]

Is that sand there to help the back end slide around? In which case isnt that cheating?

[toovo1985]

I wouldn't see that as cheating...

[anonymous-user]

KrazyIvan said:

In which case isnt that cheating?

Probably not, but it makes the record seem less impressive IMO - I'm more impressed seeing the Swifts do it in a bigger space but without the help of "sliding agents".

[toovo1985]

With that I might agree. The record should have been taped on real track so that conditions were more real

[anonymous-user]

swerni said:

If he can get it out again, that would be impressive

Pull a burn out steering left so the front end will spin outwards and not forward then just drive out.

[EDLT]

PSBuckshot said:

swerni said:

If he can get it out again, that would be impressive

Pull a burn out steering left so the front end will spin outwards and not forward then just drive out.

Like this, but the other way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb1awXgoyQE

[minicab]

Russ swift does it in a Montego at 0:25

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTx0ZTOaIc

[toovo1985]

Great video... thanks for sharing

[CraigyMc]

Most Dope said:

CraigyMc said:

Pointless. I've seen Paul Swift do better than that in real life umpteen times.

C

Why is it pointless, it was a world record attempt?

I've seen both Paul and Russ perform plenty of times and whilst their both good (very good), I've not seen either get that close.

It's pointless because it's been done umpteen times and closer than that.

If you want the world record for it all you need is a large supply of front and rear bumpers, a team of mechanics, no skill whatsoever, and a guinness "judge" (aka marketing consultant) to ajudicate. It's OK if all you have is a runner from the TV show you're making, which happens to be on the topic of world records.

What the swifts do with cars - to music - (and particularly Paul, with his autocross skills) is far more impressive than this to me.

The whole "it's a world record attempt" thing is totally uninteresting given the context.
You might as well rave about a world record attempt to make the nicest cup of tea. Just because they've decided to recognise one particular attempt (because someone could be bothered) doesn't make it interesting.

Put another way: would you be interested if the record was 1 cm front and back if there were 99 failed attempts to achieve this before the attempt that worked?

Pointless.

C

[toovo1985]

I still don't see why it's pointless...

[I'm Rick james]

That record has since been broken by a chinese man i believe.