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We are very concerned about the increasing width of modern cars. we hired a Peugeot 308 in Toulouse last October and it was frankly too wide for the little villages in the Aude Department. We think that manufacturers are being irresponsible in gradually widening their cars especially since parking spaces in car parks remain sized for narrower cars and country roads can’t get any wider. We drive on Dartmoor sometimes and we notice wider cars becoming more of a problem. We shall be looking for a narrower car to replace our current, 2005 Astra.

Asked on 29 August 2009 by

Answered by Honest John
Tell developers. Check out the standard width of any garage in a new build house in the UK. It's almost as if car manufacturers, developers and councils have banded together to make life more difficult for all of us.
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