The thing you have probably discovered about the 240 and parallel parking is that for a big car it's turning radius is great. I once parallel parked my 17 foot long '84 245 in a >20 foot space between two cars. Ok I had help from my pasengers to guide me plus I used a few techniques I saw used in europe (where parking on the sidewalk is ok) - I backed in at a sharp angle - putting my rear tire on the sidewalk then made multiple short back and forth trips to get the car straight in the spot and off the sidewalk. The other cars had lots of room on either side to get out but if I were to leave before them we would have had to pick up the civic and more it to make room.