Pop-up Garage Stows Your Car Safely Underground

By C. S. Magor / 65 comments

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The Cardok garage is an interesting parking solution that is starting to be seen around more affluent London locales. The owner’s car is raised and lowered by means of a hydraulic lift. At present there are eight in action around London, four under construction and another ten that have been ordered, which is no small feat as the price for the single model is $61,181 and if you want an over and under double it will be $72,816.

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Incidentally, here in Japan these are even creeping into cities in the more rural parts of the country. [Daily Mail via Design Blog, Born Rich]

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C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.

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It’s cool and like me !
- Donnie_darco
  
  What about rain? My grandpa’s house had a terrible water table problem and whenever we had a heavy rain the level below ground would flood. It seems possible for this garage to get water logged.
  - guest
    
    its hard to tell in the picture but when it closes it has a seal
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It’s cool and like me !
Dave

I’ve always wanted my very own bat-cave!
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  And now you can have one for almost as much as a small house.
Dave

I’ve always wanted my very own bat-cave!
- http://www.weinterrupt.com C. S. Magor
  
  And now you can have one for almost as much as a small house.
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Pretty cool & reminds me of same thing in Tokyo where you pay incredibly high rent for a parking space, i.e. $500/mo in 1992
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Pretty cool & reminds me of same thing in Tokyo where you pay incredibly high rent for a parking space, i.e. $500/mo in 1992
SB

Ill have 4 of them then! Might as well make a pop out toilet too!
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SB

Ill have 4 of them then! Might as well make a pop out toilet too!
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  Your order has been processed. Unfortunately the pop up toilet is on back order.
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http://www.redletterbelievers.blogspot.com David

This is totally cool — and pretty inpracticle.All of the work to get it set up would be costly. BUT what a great idea to maximize space. Plus I could buy a Corvette and hide it from my wife!
- http://www.weinterrupt.com C. S. Magor
  
  The smaller a country is and the more a parking space costs the more practical it becomes. In Japan they go three high at a lot of apartment buildings: underground, ground, above ground. The ground places cost the most because they are more convenient. I’ve heard of people paying $500+ per month for a parking space, so there is a good incentive for people to build them.
http://www.redletterbelievers.blogspot.com David

This is totally cool — and pretty inpracticle.All of the work to get it set up would be costly. BUT what a great idea to maximize space. Plus I could buy a Corvette and hide it from my wife!
- http://www.weinterrupt.com C. S. Magor
  
  The smaller a country is and the more a parking space costs the more practical it becomes. In Japan they go three high at a lot of apartment buildings: underground, ground, above ground. The ground places cost the most because they are more convenient. I’ve heard of people paying $500+ per month for a parking space, so there is a good incentive for people to build them.
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Hey! That’s definitely a great gadget for people who don’t have much room to store their cars. Not to mention it then becomes really hard to steal if they could even find it.
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Hey! That’s definitely a great gadget for people who don’t have much room to store their cars. Not to mention it then becomes really hard to steal if they could even find it.
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Lisa

wonder what happens if the power goes out?
- Patrick
  
  You’ll have to hand crank it, or use the included foot pump
  
  of course, you WILL be late to work….
Lisa

wonder what happens if the power goes out?
- Patrick
  
  You’ll have to hand crank it, or use the included foot pump
  
  of course, you WILL be late to work….
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ya this is really very nice people having space problems and have many cars can adopt it
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ya this is really very nice people having space problems and have many cars can adopt it
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shane

wouldn’t like to get a lot of rain tho.
shane

wouldn’t like to get a lot of rain tho.
idris

how long does it take for the lift to rise up? If its more than 10 minutes, its not worth $ 60 grand
- http://www.weinterrupt.com C. S. Magor
  
  I’ve seen similar systems here in Japan, it usually takes just a minute or two.
idris

how long does it take for the lift to rise up? If its more than 10 minutes, its not worth $ 60 grand
- http://www.weinterrupt.com C. S. Magor
  
  I’ve seen similar systems here in Japan, it usually takes just a minute or two.
Jonnyrox

Well I don’t think it would take that long to go up/down. I work in the motor trade and you can get a ramp for around £15000 and that dose exactly the same thing goes up/down when you want it to, which takes a minute to send the ramp up/down!! down motion is faster. So you could buy a ramp and just get some heavy duty/steel plates have them welded for less and put it in a big hole in you garden. £72,816 WHAT!
- JagSee
  
  I think the price is $72,816 but not £72,816
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nice idea!
IBA

$72k is a real high price to pay.
It can be built for way less.
Potty

what if someones in the car when u close it
- Dhollist
  
  Then you’re an idiot?
- Anonymous
  
  Did u just seriously f@#kin ask that? let’s put it this way… if u’re dumb enough for that to even possibly happen, then u’re too dumb to ever make the 60K+ to get one, so don’t worry about it!!!
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oh well i guess they sleep inside the car ha ha to bad so sad but nice hideing place for the mafia
Charlie453

I have one too, its called a garage.
fordcorona

72 mil ? :O
Jesse_6027

What if it floods? Good bye car…
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Mr Bockelmann

So when your final moments come, you can get in your favorite car and ‘bury’ yourself and save on funeral expenses!!!
- Dguyer86
  
  Theres a garage under there. its just not a hole.
  - Zelfarion
    
    Nope its not a garage under there its just the lift. I have seen one of these and its just a hole nothing more. Its just the lift that costs around 60k. Wherever you heard that there was a garage under there aswell is a lie. if you yourself build a garage and then build one of these then its gonna cost lets say 100k in total to build.
Dfljksfaskjhl

yaay! now i can hide how much i’m really worth from the taxman!!!
WICKED

So, are these sound proof, where you can lock the doors in your car then shut it down to hide from your gf, or in some other cases the guys wife?, also would be badass to connect it to your basement, so you can work on your car without going out in the storm, or when it gets dark out I guess, or maybe a nice park garage style basement to house your bikes if you have more than 4 motorcycles.
Matt

I can’t even afford to pave my driveway for goodness sake
kk

RE: What do you do if the power goes out..? Does it have a crank by hand system?

What to do if the gas runs out in the car? Does it have pedals to pedal to the gas station?

Next stupid question…
Dfma

buying a bigger house is much cheaper!!!!
Gary

this is hardly new, my brothers apartment block had these for all residents in an underground car park 15 years ago. It was a way to double the capacity of the parking area.
BUBBA

WOW ……. Just got mine and it is great will order two more for my friends !
Andre

Looks nice, but when it start raining, it will probably become a mess.

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