Car Dimensions by Model

UK parking bays are commonly marked at 2.40 m wide by 4.80 m long, though older town-centre car parks are often tighter and there is no single national rule. Every model page in this cluster subtracts the car's real body width from that bay width and tells you the gap left on each side. Remember that manufacturers publish width with the door mirrors excluded, so the real gap is smaller than the arithmetic suggests.

A typical modern UK single garage is roughly 2.40 m wide and 5.00 m long inside, but garages built in the 1960s and 70s were designed around much smaller cars and are frequently narrower and shorter. Since cars have grown with every generation, the safest approach is to measure your own opening and internal walls, then compare against the length and width on the model page — not to trust a standard figure.

Almost never. The width manufacturers publish — and the width shown throughout this cluster — is body width across the widest point of the bodywork, with the door mirrors excluded. Mirrors add a meaningful amount on each side, which is why a car that looks like it fits a narrow garage on paper often needs its mirrors folded in practice. Some brochures quote a separate 'width including mirrors' figure; where a car has one, it is always the larger number.

Kerb weight is the car as it leaves the factory with all fluids and a nominal fuel load, but with no driver, passengers or luggage. Gross vehicle weight — sometimes called maximum authorised mass — is the heaviest the car is legally plated to be once loaded. The gap between the two is your payload. Kerb weight is what this cluster lists; gross weight is stamped on the VIN plate, usually inside a door shut or under the bonnet.

Only roughly. Boot volumes are quoted in litres but measured to different standards — VDA (which fills the space with standard blocks) usually produces a smaller number than SAE, and some makers quote seats-down or load-to-roof volumes without saying so. Use the litre figure to shortlist, then take the actual pushchair, dog crate or set of golf clubs to the car before you buy.

Because those are the models we hold a complete, real set of measurements for. We would rather publish 40 pages that answer the question than thousands that say "figures not available" — a dimensions page without dimensions helps nobody and does not deserve to rank. The list grows as we validate more models. Last reviewed August 2026.