parking.....

[MICKEY88]

Little ding turns to premature rust and the necessary bodywork later on in its life that I don't care to do or to pay a lot of money for someone else to do. You can disregard obviously if you drive American cars because they are usually done mechanically way before you have to worry about rust, but those of us who drive Japanese cars, we like them due to the fact you don't have to work on them mechanically for 200,000+ miles and don't want to have to put all the work into bodywork prematurely well before that 200,000+ miles because some idiot dinged up the car in a parking lot compromising the bond between the primer coat and the sheetmetal 10 years earlier.

you are living in the past with that thought, American cars are now every bit as good as japanese cars

I belong to the Chrysler 300M Enthusiasts Club, we have many members with
several hundred thousand miles on their cars, mine has 191,000 and runs like new,

 

[disney1990]

In answer to your question, 99.9% I back into a parking space and I back into our own driveway. It proven that it is safer to pull out of a parking space that to back out of one. I know how to drive and operate my car. It takes me no longer to back into a space than it does to pull into one. However, I, too, lose patience with people that must drive "tanks" and don't know how to get them into a parking space.

 

[locolala]

I back into the parking spot 9 times out of 10 because it was ingrained in me when I was in the military. You park rear end in so you can get out faster. Yes, I know that it's not likely to be needed when I'm at the grocery store or the mall, but it's habit. Most cars I see at the commissary (at least ones not driven by spouses) are backed in. If I am nose in, I honk my horn twice to let people know I am backing up. Another habit from the military. I know EMS people and LEOs who back in for the same reason.