It’s a busy Saturday morning and in the supermarket car parks of Britain we are forced to indulge in a cartoonish game of automotive Tetris, performing 15-point turns to coax our modern SUVs, EVs and people-carriers into parking spaces painted in 1971 for a Morris Minor. Alloy wheels scrape kerbs and mirrors bang bollards as children are extracted through two-inch gaps in doors that can now barely open.
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Angela Epstein
Andy Burnham is making Manchester look like a joke
The monstrous inflation of modern car sizes crashed into the headlines last week with the latest transport crisis dubbed ‘carspreading’ or ‘autobesity’. It was sparked by a study from Transport & Environment, a multi-million-pound green-leaning Brussels quasi-quango, heavily backed by the EU, telling us our cars are too big.
