Required Car Parking (Parallel) Area

[tendlu]

Hello,

What is the minimum parking dimension required to park two cars next to each other in parallel, like this? --

**CAR_1** [space] **CAR_2**

Say car is a sedan like Nissan Verna or VW Passat.

Thanks.

[aries31]

Assuming each car is 6' wide (innova, scorpio etc) , and you need atleast 2' gap between wall and car, 2' between car-car, 18' is minimum.

[blrsiteseeker]

I think you would need 20' width. Since the doors on both sides of both cars need to open. trying to write it similar to your requirement statement

**2' space ** car 1 ** 4' space ** car 2 ** 2' space **
And each car is about 6' in width, to be exact the VW passat is 72.2" width and 191.6" in length; Nissan Verna (I presume you meant Versa) - length 169.1" vs. width 66.7".

If you don't have a wall on either side (meaning the space is free, then you may get away with slightly less than 2' space on either ends). But if you look up standard garage size for 2 car parking - it is 20' x 20'. The length can be shortened quite a bit, since cars these days are getting shorter, but width I am not sure has come down that much (unless you plan on a "smart car" or something like that)

[tendlu]

seems like we need 20(w)x18 (l) for parallel parking.

thanks guys.