When we bought the place, we couldn’t get the car in because our “driveway” is three feet long, steep, and just mud. We’ve put gravel down now. Fortunately, it’s a 1000 square foot garage, so there’s plenty of room for other stuff in the parts you can’t drive a car into.
It’s a fabulous building—all the eletrical outlets are literally connected with orange extension cords running through the (unfinished) walls and rafters. The previous owners did all the wiring themselves, including hooking their heavy-draw 220-volt outlet to the separate electrical panel in the tenants’ suite. (They also did that with heavy-draw items in the house: when we fixed it, the tenants’ electric bill was cut in half.)
On a bright day, you can see the gaps in the breezeblocks at the foundation. When we bought it, there were also rats and floods, though the floor slopes at such an angle that the water just flowed through the gaps on the downhill side. It’s also too large for the kind of roof it has, but only in that margin-of-error safety thing. It was built in 1967, and as far as I can tell it was done in a hurry just before permitting requirements went into law.
We don’t have a garage or a carport, but we do have a 10’x20’ ‘canopy garage’ that can be considered either. I park the MGB and the motorcycles in that. Mrs. L.A. generally parks on the driveway, which is wide enough for a single vehicle, in front of the canopy garage. I park behind her – unless she needs to go somewhere. In that case, I park on the lawn beside the driveway. There’s room (lengthwise) to park another car, but I park the Jeep on the street.
I have three vehicles, but only one parking spot. So, I keep the hardly used van in the garage, my wife’s Audi in the driveway, and my Hellcat parked in the street in front of the house. Street parking is technically free-for-all here, but everyone pretty much respects the portion in front of each others’ homes to be theirs.
Street parking, need a permit but since most people have a guest placard for visitors and street sweeping and snow emergencies take away spots, I voted for free-for-all.
Attached garage. I have a two-car garage and one car, so space is not a problem. I also live in a townhouse, so there is no driveway - in fact, there’s a giant red line marked “Fire Lane” painted on the edge of the roadway right in front of my garage.
I have a garage, but it’s really a glorified shed made by Tuff Shed. I could probably fit my car in there if it was empty, but I have a workshop setup. We have a very long driveway that goes from the street back to the garage (at least 40’), so it’s long enough to park our RV and our car on (with room to spare), which is what we do.
One car attached garage (well you could maybe fit two, but it is one car wide). I also have a two car detached garage (previous owner used as a workshop). The one car garage has a door at both ends so I theoretically could park in the detached garage but I keep stuff in the driveway in between (not to mention in the detached garage)
We have 2 cars and 2 garage spaces, however it takes some maneuvering and the spots are tight, so normally we just park in the driveway. However for repair or bad weather (particularly snow/hail/ice) we bring them in. Also if we have heavy rain we will sometimes use that as well as not to get wet going to/from the car. We typically have one spot free at any time, the other spot we usually need to make ready.
3 cars in the drive, 2 inside along with a shit tonne of miscellaneous stuff but organized neatly labeled and no surface goes under utilized as storage. OUr VW Bus holds many many things as well.
In the spring, summer, and fall, the van gets mostly parked backed up to the packing shed for easy loading, and the car gets usually parked either pulled up past the van next to the shed, or parked next to the van, or next to the house in that arm of the turnaround if I’ve been unloading or loading something heavy or awkward, or when there are other people parking up by the shed.
In the winter, the car gets parked in the lower barn; which requires clearing out space that, during the rest of the year, holds lawnmower, rototiller, electric tiller, sometimes a handcart, usually a table for staging hand tools and miscellanous equipment; all of which get moved either to the upper barn (mostly into an area that holds fertilizer in the spring and curing garlic from midsummer to mid fall) or put away for the winter in a side room in the lower barn. And the van gets parked under the shed roof off the lower barn that during the rest of the year shelters a produce wash stand; which requires moving hoses to winter storage, folding up a couple of tables which fit against the wall of the barn, and putting away whatever other miscellaneous accumulated in there over the season.
The car and van can’t stay in their winter quarters all year, because I have other uses for that space. And they can’t stay in their summer quarters in the winter, because the town snow plow turns around in some of that area, and piles snow on top of the rest of it.
So, referencing the electric vehicle thread, about 40% of posters could fairly easily have an electrician install an outlet to plug in a car. (Or might already have such an outlet.)
I went other. We are inner-city with detached garage. The motorcycles are always garaged and the car is sometimes but usually street parked. Our garage is in a tight alley and getting the Outback in or out is a two person job; clearance is roughly 2 inches a side.