Turning Circle - how many metres do you need to turn round?

[vescaegg]

Turning circle of my clio 182 is approx 4 miles.

It's terrible.

[TameRacingDriver]

Primera GT - not sure how many meters, but put it this way, you need an area the size of a small country to turn around!

ETA: to the above poster, I've had a 182 and if you think the turning circle is bad on that, try a PGT, honestly. Its embarassing. When I test drove it I almost failed to complete a tight right turn!

[cheadle hulme]

Renault Laguna Coupe with 4 wheel steering.

10 degrees of opposite lock for the rears.

[rumple]

im like austin powers in that golf buggy lol

[LukeSi]

Turning circle on the Panda is 10 metres. I know it isn't that much but on a small car it feels huge. Oh and it only has 900 degrees steering lock as well

[mmm-five]

About 5 metres - if I use enough throttle

Although it's officially 10m.

Edited by mmm-five on Sunday 20th November 11:35

[LukeSi]

Yeah using the handbrake I could probably turn the Panda round in its own length.

[Noesph]

9.75 metres full lock.

Edited by Noesph on Saturday 19th November 12:45

[300bhp/ton]

Petrolhead_Rich said:

My new car seems to have the turning circle of a barge, so I was wondering what the average turning circle is, go go google your car and turning circle and post back the width required to turn in metres:

Mine:
Volvo S60 2.0T
11M

Lets see who really has a barge and who can turn on a sixpence!

and no discounts for being able to flick the rear end round, I know it reduces the turning circle but it's not a fair comparison!!

Is this with or without using the handbrake?

[TazR6]

My 306 is simply put, horrendous.
U turns are only possible on wide roads, and parking in busy supermarket car parks takes a shuffle or two.
No idea what the actual distance required is though.

[saaby93]

Triumph Herald was advertised as 25ft (7.62metres extremely approximately)
Spitfire/gt6 would be a bit less (or is it fewer)
Why would you need more?

[z06tim]

My Vette is 40.2ft/12.1m which actually doesn't feel that bad for a big sports car.

My alfa 145 is particularly bad for a small car. Can't find any good data but I can struggle to make some of the ramps in a multi-storey without backing-up occasionally. It's also only got two turns lock to lock!

[petrolsniffer]

5.4m

[traffman]

Dont know what the turning circle of our civic is , but its hellish.

[maniac0796]

TameRacingDriver said:

Primera GT - not sure how many meters, but put it this way, you need an area the size of a small country to turn around!

ETA: to the above poster, I've had a 182 and if you think the turning circle is bad on that, try a PGT, honestly. Its embarassing. When I test drove it I almost failed to complete a tight right turn!

I agree, the Primera GT is fecking terrible. Although Parkers say it's only 11m.

[Piepiepie]

11.3m

Mondeo.

[Engineer1]

Parkers says 12m for my PT Crusier in reality the turning circle can more accurately be described as just larger than the available space in most situations. I always have to turn in to something then reverse off to pull in again. Still it carries my bike fine and is a great pesudo van.

[busta]

9.8 metres for my 5m long Volvo 940.

It actually seems like less than that- it certainly turns considerably tighter than any other car I've owned or driven.

That old PH favourite the MX5 manages a very respectable 9.4m.

[Bacon Is Proof]

Turning around is like an admition that you've made an error, so I've never done it.
Driving a Jag I'll assume its turning circle is massive, so say half of whatever an EP3 Civic Type R can do it in.

[PhillipM]

TazR6 said:

My 306 is simply put, horrendous.

Mine used to be too, so I tweaked it