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Bruce, I've had the Bendpak MD-6XP for almost three years and am very happy with it. The Boxster needs ramps to clear the flattened lift, so I quickly built two ramps by stacking two 2x10's a bit longer than the wheel base. A little stagger and angle cut at one end is enough to make it easy to drive onto. Then you swing the arms under the lift points and go.

The lift height is maybe a bit over 40 inches which is plenty for doing everything. You can't stand upright underneath that but unless you have, what, 10' ? ceilings, no lift will be able to let you do that. You can work on wheels at standing height, and you can crouch, or sit on a rolling workshop stool, for lots of things under the car. Don't forget about the garage door when it is open and in the way! You can stop the lift at any height, and the safety stops are every foot, meaning that if you raise the car to 40", the farthest it could drop if there were a catastrophic hydraulic failure would be six inches.

I wish I had bought it years earlier!

Here is a set of photos I just uploaded. I took them when I first set up the lift. Hopefully it gives you a good idea of how it fits in a 20'x20' normal height garage. Note that in the photos of the car on the lift, it is not at the max height (there's at least a foot of clearance available between the car roof and the garage ceiling).
[url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/bombaydigital/sets/72157649623334692/]Bendpak MD-6XP setup photos[/url]

[url=https://www.flic.kr/p/q2LreQkr.com/photos/bombaydigital/sets/72157649623334692/][img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7554/15772548758_ee4f3f9b91.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/q2LreQ]Untitled[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/65297422@N00/]bombaydigital[/url], on Flickr

Bruce, I've had the Bendpak MD-6XP for almost three years and am very happy with it. The Boxster needs ramps to clear the flattened lift, so I quickly built two ramps by stacking two 2x10's a bit longer than the wheel base. A little stagger and angle cut at one end is enough to make it easy to drive onto. Then you swing the arms under the lift points and go.

The lift height is maybe a bit over 40 inches which is plenty for doing everything. You can't stand upright underneath that but unless you have, what, 10' ? ceilings, no lift will be able to let you do that. You can work on wheels at standing height, and you can crouch, or sit on a rolling workshop stool, for lots of things under the car. Don't forget about the garage door when it is open and in the way! You can stop the lift at any height, and the safety stops are every foot, meaning that if you raise the car to 40", the farthest it could drop if there were a catastrophic hydraulic failure would be six inches.

I wish I had bought it years earlier!

Here is a set of photos I just uploaded. I took them when I first set up the lift. Hopefully it gives you a good idea of how it fits in a 20'x20' normal height garage. Note that in the photos of the car on the lift, it is not at the max height (there's at least a foot of clearance available between the car roof and the garage ceiling).
[url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/bombaydigital/sets/72157649623334692/]Bendpak MD-6XP setup photos[/url]

[url=https://flic.kr/p/q2LreQ][img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7554/15772548758_ee4f3f9b91.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/q2LreQ]Untitled[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/65297422@N00/]bombaydigital[/url], on Flickr

Bruce, I've had the Bendpak MD-6XP for almost three years and am very happy with it. The Boxster needs ramps to clear the flattened lift, so I quickly built two ramps by stacking two 2x10's a bit longer than the wheel base. A little stagger and angle cut at one end is enough to make it easy to drive onto. Then you swing the arms under the lift points and go.

The lift height is maybe a bit over 40 inches which is plenty for doing everything. You can't stand upright underneath that but unless you have, what, 10' ? ceilings, no lift will be able to let you do that. You can work on wheels at standing height, and you can crouch, or sit on a rolling workshop stool, for lots of things under the car. Don't forget about the garage door when it is open and in the way! You can stop the lift at any height, and the safety stops are every foot, meaning that if you raise the car to 40", the farthest it could drop if there were a catastrophic hydraulic failure would be six inches.

I wish I had bought it years earlier!

Here is a set of photos I just uploaded. I took them when I first set up the lift. Hopefully it gives you a good idea of how it fits in a 20'x20' normal height garage. Note that in the photos of the car on the lift, it is not at the max height (there's at least a foot of clearance available between the car roof and the garage ceiling).
[url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/bombaydigital/sets/72157649623334692/]Bendpak MD-6XP setup photos[/url]

[url=https://flic.kr/p/q2LreQ][img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7554/15772548758_ee4f3f9b91.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/q2LreQ]Untitled[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/65297422@N00/]bombaydigital[/url], on Flickr