If you buy a massive 4×4 SUV...

I agree city dwellers and even town dwellers don’t need them. But sometimes us farmers have to go into the city. You can usual spot us though, truck or suv will be covered in mud.

Non of the above I'm afraid, could easily afford one just choose not to, hth.

Ahh, yes the line straddlers - don't you have any awareness of how stupid and ignorant you look? Stupid because you obviously don't have the ability to park, ignorant because, well basically, you just are..

If you have time and of course just about enough space, park next to them anyway. I've done that a few times, parking in MY spot, completely blocking them in.

People who buy them because they NEED them tend to know how to park funnily enough.

Yes, agree with this. We have a range rover sport (for reasons I shouldn't have to divilge, because its our choice) and we are most definetly not 'chavs', thank you!

My parents were involved in a motorbike accident with an 82 yr old driving an SUV , he ploughed straight into their bike as he turned at a junction and didn’t stop. Yes great they are easier for people to get into but had he been in a smaller car he wouldn’t have caused them the injuries he has . My Dad has had to have mind blowing surgery to save his leg as his leg isn’t attached to his foot .
Had a child been crossing the road …

Some of these cars are like the size of a small tank .

Me to. My SUV is my child so I’m following the rules.

Have a spoon to help stir the pot

Best done with a long wooded one 😀

Wood = dont get burned yourself
Long = from a distance is safer and use others as a shield.

Better than "poking the bear" or "lobbing a grenade" as one is allowed to remain and watch the carnage road rage.

In France, there is an enormous registration tax - it's called a malus (up to 70,000 euros - the new Land rover grenadier fits this group) on the largest gas guzzling cars - hence we don't see that many of those over here.

Mind you in our supermarket even normal sized cars seem to like to spread themselves over 2 spaces.

I never quite understand people who call for bigger parking spaces. Sure, they can be made bigger, but then there will be fewer spaces and everyone will complain about that. Why not just buy a car that fits in a standard parking space? People have been towing caravans and what not for decades, I don't understand why normal estate cars are suddenly deemed not up to the job.

There are lots of small cars available. But they are small relative to other available cars. Not to historical cars.

e.g. a Fiat 500 is 1m 68. An old Mini is 1m 43. A new Mini is 1 m 74.

And obviously no one in 2025 is about to put three kids in the back of any of those cars.

All of this means there is less free space between cars parked a set distance apart. That's just maths. Obviously people should park as best they can within the lines, but my point is it's made unnecessarily harder.

I remember seeing a video where they tested how many little children lined up behind the car it would take for an SUV driver to be able to see them out of the rearview mirror. I can't remember the exact answer, maybe +. Even the driver was totally shocked and said they didn't realise their view was so hampered that they wouldn't be able to see small children stood behind their car, even if they checked the mirror before reversing.

These threads always trigger bonkers generalisations like this 😂 is it jealousy? Insecurity? Not sure. Funny though.

Modern cars are just too big. We upgraded to a SUV style. It’s a Volvo xc40. I was worried about it because it looks massive. Surprisingly when I looked at the dimensions it was smaller than my 2 door mini in width.

So sorry OP I think YABU. There’s really not much in it even with the big range rovers.

I've come to the conclusion recently that people who are shit drivers attempt to compensate for this by driving a fucking massive car. So yes, it would marry up with being unable to fucking park.

With number plate recognition, the technology is there to charge these vehicles more to park. If they take up two spaces, they should pay for two spaces.

Typically I wouldn’t but after numerous unpleasant interactions with these rather awful people the shoe most definitely fits.

I could afford one but I'm not a dick.
I get the serious urge to key cars parked like that. I never would. But I really want to.

Yep.. this is the case with said neighbours! Just selfish.

My late DM’s neighbours had a SUV each and they only had room for one on the drive. Just ridiculous.

Am wondering why it’s acceptable to refer to Range Rovers as “chav mobiles” on here? I once went on a date with a man who called the bus a “peasant wagon” and I left immediately. Making judgements on people because of their transport choices is frankly odd.

Yep I don't understand people buying SUVs because they "need a big boot", they've got shit bootspace. We will continue to buy used MPVs and Estates for as long as we can.

I think people who spend 40-60k on a car genuinely believe they have the right to inconvenience other people so it doesn’t get damaged.

I drive a fucking builders van and manage to park it quite sensibly.

Living in the country is a pathetic excuse for being selfish.

One issue is that car makers are not selling estate cars

They are also stopping selling MPV's and cars you can get into easily

There was some discussion on a site I am on for those that suffer the vice that has no name (OK Model Railways) that SUV's are massive but the bit thats important - the load bay is small compared to a proper estate car

That of course and the fact that you dont get a good view forwards so can easily run over a child because you cant see them