A rather strange story from The Guardian about garages that are too small to park a car. I don’t normally have much time for consumer stories, since they typically serve to highlight that people have been naive or stupid, but this one is a bit mysterious:
It would appear that architects do not consider how much room is actually required for a car when designing a garage, but as both local authorities and house buyers assume that they would not design a garage that you can’t fit a car into, the dimensions are not checked. As a result, many homeowners end up having a garage they can’t park their car in.
I would be very unhappy if I bought a house with a garage and couldn’t fit my Renault Vel Satis* into it, but I suppose you could always use it as a granny flat or for your irritating teenage children.
* Only joking – the Renault Megane is not only cheaper but marginally less hideous, so I’d have one of those instead.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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They should feel lucky that, No1, they have a garage, and No2, a car to put in it.
Very quickly at the start of my 7 year stay in Japan I learned very few residences had garages, or parking spaces for that matter. And having a garage or parking space was a requirement to own and register an auto!
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