Classics dwarfed by moderns

[Tyre Smoke]

Too obvious?

[velocemitch]

Milkyway said:

Ardennes92 said:

PH User said:

Biggy Stardust said:

Milkyway said:

Seeing those great tanks cruising around the supermarket car parks, whilst thinking to myself ...you’ll be lucky or park up at your leisure, don’t worry about me.
Don’t know if the day will ever come, perhaps they will need their own special bays soon...

They go on facebook or similar & complain that the parking bays are too small & why doesn't anyone do something about it.

To be fair, parking bays are a bit small for many cars now.

Obviously the piston heads way to look at it is that the cars are too big.

Obviously the correct answer

So, either bigger car parks or less bays may be the solution.

Its not just parking bays either, integral garages in new houses are hardly big enough to get a car in. In truth nobodies does, but that's not the point. I expect they are only there as a planning condition to provide off street parking. But they can't be used anyway.

[a8hex]

PH User said:

Biggy Stardust said:

Milkyway said:

Seeing those great tanks cruising around the supermarket car parks, whilst thinking to myself ...you’ll be lucky or park up at your leisure, don’t worry about me.
Don’t know if the day will ever come, perhaps they will need their own special bays soon...

They go on facebook or similar & complain that the parking bays are too small & why doesn't anyone do something about it.

To be fair, parking bays are a bit small for many cars now.

Obviously the piston heads way to look at it is that the cars are too big.

This has probably always been the case, but parking spaces are definitely bigger than they used to be. I remember that the car park I often used in Reading had spaces which were almost exactly the same size as my Mk3 Vauxhall Cavalier and these days that would rate as a tiny car.

[lowdrag]

I'm sure I put this up about 30 pages ago but never mind - I still like it. On the subject of parking we have a new supermarket here and the bays are far wider now. Finally a bit of sense in the planning.

[Milkyway]

Worth a read.: Parking bay sizes.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-8...

[aeropilot]

Milkyway said:

Worth a read.: Parking bay sizes.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-8...

Its not not parking, its road widths and just above everything in our road infrastructure is now too small.

But as a small country with many of our cities and towns with a road layout designed and built 70-100+ years ago, its just going to get worse. Even new builds are hampered by dumb anti-car council planning that just continues to make the problem worse even for new developments.
Manufacturers won't be making UK market only vehicles.......(apart from Japan's K-Class vehicle of course)

[Milkyway]

aeropilot said:

Milkyway said:

Worth a read.: Parking bay sizes.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-8...

Its not not parking, its road widths and just above everything in our road infrastructure is now too small.

But as a small country with many of our cities and towns with a road layout designed and built 70-100+ years ago, its just going to get worse. Even new builds are hampered by dumb anti-car council planning that just continues to make the problem worse even for new developments.
Manufacturers won't be making UK market only vehicles.......(apart from Japan's K-Class vehicle of course)

It’s like a lot of ideas / inventions.... let’s get on & make it & worry about small things like infrastructure or any associated problems further down the road.

Edited by Milkyway on Wednesday 12th January 10:08

[dhutch]

lowdrag said:

I On the subject of parking we have a new supermarket here and the bays are far wider now. Finally a bit of sense in the planning.

Do they have the double lines, seen often at Costco and one Sainsburies I know of.

https://www.google.com/search?q=costco+car+park&am...

[aeropilot]

dhutch said:

lowdrag said:

I On the subject of parking we have a new supermarket here and the bays are far wider now. Finally a bit of sense in the planning.

Do they have the double lines, seen often at Costco and one Sainsburies I know of.

https://www.google.com/search?q=costco+car+park&am...

I think that's location dependant.

Of the two Costco's near me, about same distance from home, in different directions, one has the double lines, and the other one hasn't.
Maybe depends how new they are perhaps?

[Milkyway]

Copied from the car park bays article.

Edited by Milkyway on Wednesday 12th January 13:46

[whirlybird]

You said the "DWARF" word !!!!!

[Mr lestat]

whirlybird said:

You said the "DWARF" word !!!!!

Don’t mention midget gems. I know the woke snowflakes won’t like it so that’s good but Dwarf is a correct term

Edited by Mr lestat on Friday 14th January 13:31

Edited by Mr lestat on Friday 14th January 13:56

[Milkyway]

Mr lestat said:

whirlybird said:

You said the "DWARF" word !!!!!

Don’t mention midget gems. I know the woke snowflakes won’t like so that’s good but Dwarf is a correct term

Edited by Mr lestat on Friday 14th January 13:31

‘Undertall’ used to be a good term...

[Lily the Pink]

Altitudinally challenged.

[ajprice]

It's opposites day, a modern dwarfed by classics https://twitter.com/thealso/status/148264799092174...

[phib]

Two of mine

[21st Century Man]

ajprice said:

It's opposites day, a modern dwarfed by classics https://twitter.com/thealso/status/148264799092174...

Naughty, driving that S660 on Tennessee plates, it can't be registered with them under the 25 year rule? I saw it at Bicester and appreciate it's from a museum in Tennessee, but I thought it was on those plates for display.

Or is it a UK registered number that's been made up on a set of Tennessee plates?

Nope, number doesn't check out.

Edited by 21st Century Man on Sunday 16th January 20:34

Edited by 21st Century Man on Sunday 16th January 21:13

[hot metal]

whirlybird said:

You said the "DWARF" word !!!!!

So will it be Snow White & the 7 Small People in future ?

[Mark-C]

hot metal said:

whirlybird said:

You said the "DWARF" word !!!!!

So will it be Snow White & the 7 Small People in future ?

Does this ste have to infect every thread?

Nice two car Porsche garage above

[phazed]