That SUV you bought to cruise the high street? It's about to cost you even more

That SUV you bought to cruise the high street? It's about to cost you even more

If it feels like parking the car when you pop the shops is a lot harder than it used to be, you’d be right – and the UK’s “carspreading” problem is largely to blame. Our addiction to ever-larger cars has grown so strong that more than 4.6 million “supersized” SUVs are now too big for the minimum sized urban on-street parking space of 4.8 metres long and 1.8 metres wide. Since 2018, according to data from Thatcham Research (an organisation that e…