What sports car? (for a tricky shaped/sized garage...)

[cheeky]

I drive a Corvette Z06. I love it. Great fun, ridiculously quick, great handling and practical (the boot comfortably swallows a bicycle with the front wheel off).

My problem is a garage at my new place that tapers from front to rear. By the time you get to the point where the rear is about to touch the tapered wall, the bonnet is still sticking about 20cm out of the doorway.

So... what fast, fun car, that ideally gives me as much of the above as possible, is either narrower or shorter or both, so that I'll be able to fit it in the garage?

A Z06 is 4565mm long and 1869mm wide, and the taper of the right wall is about 30 degrees away from being parallel with the left wall.

[LukeSi]

Expand your garage? Surely it is cheaper than replacing the Vette'

[rottie102]

Wouldn't this be a better option?

[Caulkhead]

Park in the living room and put sofa and TV in garage.

Call yourself PH?

[Chapppers]

Gazebo in front of the garage. HTH.

[sherman]

If you have a driveway. Build a carport over the driveway and leave the corvette on the driveway.

[Yachtworker]

This is the right shape and you can throw away the bike!

[cheeky]

LukeSi said:

Expand your garage? Surely it is cheaper than replacing the Vette'

Nope. Already denied by council Planning for the front, and the tapered wall is the property boundary.

[cheeky]

rottie102 said:

Wouldn't this be a better option?

No - like I said, I like the car.

[thinfourth2]

cheeky said:

LukeSi said:

Expand your garage? Surely it is cheaper than replacing the Vette'

Nope. Already denied by council Planning for the front, and the tapered wall is the property boundary.

And the other side of the garage?

[cheeky]

sherman said:

If you have a driveway. Build a carport over the driveway and leave the corvette on the driveway.

Have considered replacing garage with carport but am nervous that the Vette being visible all the time will attract burglars to the house...

[cheeky]

thinfourth2 said:

And the other side of the garage?

Wall of house, which is not allowed to be changed.

[cheeky]

Yachtworker said:

This is the right shape and you can throw away the bike!

Good shout... and the only helpful suggestion so far, even if it was meant in jest!

[Ali_T]

cheeky said:

Have considered replacing garage with carport but am nervous that the Vette being visible all the time will attract burglars to the house...

It's neither a Subaru nor an Evo, it should be safe.

[illmonkey]

cheeky said:

No - like I said, I like the car.

[sherman]

cheeky said:

Have considered replacing garage with carport but am nervous that the Vette being visible all the time will attract burglars to the house...

Put some form of screening along the sides of the carport then.

[cheeky]

sherman said:

Put some form of screening along the sides of the carport then.

Sides would already be screened. Car would be visible from front of house. Not helpful. Please restore my faith that PH has some helpful people, as it used to, and only answer my question rather than offering some other non-solution!

[E30M3SE]

Extend the garage forwards by a foot or so.

ETA, I see that is out due to planning............

Edited by E30M3SE on Tuesday 23 August 15:32

[zaphod42]

Could you get a custom made door - so that the door hinge / garage structure remains as per plans, but the door itself comes forward by the required 20cm or so - might be complex and risky...

[TVR Tommy]

What about an Elise in the garage with a fast estate for bike carrying duties?