Pop-up Garage Stows Your Car Safely Underground
Submitted by C. S. Magor on Friday, 27 March 200916 Comments |
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.
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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It’s cool and like me !
I’ve always wanted my very own bat-cave!
And now you can have one for almost as much as a small house.
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
Ill have 4 of them then! Might as well make a pop out toilet too!
SB,
Your order has been processed. Unfortunately the pop up toilet is on back order.
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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!
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.
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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wonder what happens if the power goes out?