Think parking your car is a chore? Is your parking stall too small? Good thing you don’t live in Tokyo, where car ownership truly is a privilege. In fact, you can’t even buy a car in Tokyo unless you can prove that you have a place to park it. I normally don’t walk around Japan looking at parking spaces, but when I saw these two fine examples, I just had to take a picture.
Talk about parallel parking! Or maybe you use a forklift and lower your car in this space. Good thing this guy sold his F-150 extended cab!
Can you imagine parking here everyday?
Consider this is Japan, the steering wheel is on the RIGHT HAND SIDE of the car! This guy parks his car and has to climb out of the passenger side. I hope he’s skinny!
While it is true that most Japanese people own small cars, it’s also true that like in America, big cars make more of a statement. Americans like big trucks and SUVs, but Japanese people seem to like vans. If you think Toyota, you think of the Sienna van; Honda, the Odyssey, Nissan, the Quest. But in Japan, all the big automakers have a line up a vans that don’t get exported to the States. Here’s a couple of Nissan bad boys that would might even make American men want to drive a van.
No Soccer-mom Nissan Quest here!
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