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Me and 2 other people moved a poorly parked Toyota Tercel when I was young, pivoting it on a front tire.
I'm kind of a big dude, but I'm not huge and only one of us was particularly strong.
It's easier than you might think especially if you just want to flip it over. 3-5 regular sized guys could definitely do it!
Saw some students try to do that with a relatively small car badly parked on campus. They decided they could probably lift it with one on each corner. Unfortunately they each grabbed a wheel arch and came away with handfuls of corroded bodywork. The rest of the car stayed where it was and they ran.
Yeah, gotta grab it by the tires and frame, anything else will probably break even if the vehicle is in good shape.
Colleague is a firefighter and they regularly have trainings for moving a car, in case it's blocking a driveway.
They'll have a person at each wheel and bounce the car in sync, making use of the suspension to keep the momentum going. And then when it's bouncing upwards, they'll lift it off the ground and push it over a few centimeters. Repeat until it's out of the way.
He said, it's fairly quick, you can easily move a car half a meter that way.
But yeah, if you need to move it further, you'll go ringing doorbells, or worst-case, wait for a tow truck...
"There's nothing in the rule book that says you can't dribble a car..."
-Firefighters apparently
It often fucks up the body work too, which is a nice plus.
We did something similar, but we just stuck the back end up on the curb because teenagers do dumb stuff and we didn’t like the driver. It was a Geo Metro; we probably didn’t need more than two guys.
Rotational relocation along the longitudinal axis is definitely easier and more warranted for the BMW.