Why do people drive big cars they can’t manage?

Ooh what’s your job @Tollington , I can only think of car salesperson, but I wonder if it’s more glamour than that

Ain't that the truth. My cars in last few yrs were a Kia Picanto & a Fiat 500. Which are not as small as I'd like but as small as modern cars with > 2 seats get. I often pull into a marked parking spot & think "there's barely room to get out"... so how TF do people in a Nissan Patrol or a RAV4 or a Galaxy cope? Mind boggles.

I honestly am fed up of men parking their big fuck off cars in the disabled spaces at the gym or in the kids parking at super markets. Drives me mad.

Why does it matter your mam is a farmer exactly?!! And why were you so interested in other people instead of each other’s company at lunch? You must be very dull to find this entertaining.

I would rather be entirely unable to park or in fact drive, than be so awfully judgemental. Your sense of superiority is obvious and unpleasant.

Lmao I come from a farming family and my mam fucking hates these faux-posh people (men and women) in their giant, shiny, never-seen-off-road 4x4's that they absolutely can't drive to save their lives. She'd love this thread.

Pal and I sat in a car park watching a woman trying to park one of those awful humongous pickups the other day, it took her longer than it took us to eat our lunches to get the stupid thing into a space. I felt like offering to do it for her but it was more fun to watch her struggle.

Seriously no fucking need. Pp said she doesn't drive when she's not well. Nowhere did she say she couldn't park the thing.

Excessively bulky cars that just don't fit into regular parking spots are a pita! Must be so irritating to have to cruise round carparks to find a space-and-a-half.
Not being able to reverse conf8dently must also be a nightmare, ditto passing oncoming car on narrower rural roads.

I don't get why anyone would choose a bulky heavy wide car - so few people actually need that style.

IME it's mostly men of a certain age.

I’d always want my wife and child driving in a large 4x4 because I believe it’s a lot safer for them, and my wife and most women are a lot better parking than I am anyway 😂 I am the worst 🙈

’Hubby’s’ car?????
Wtaf!

Just when you think people can’t get anymore stupid.

Most women I know seem to be able to handle big cars, but the couple I know who I almost feel reluctant to get in their car with them driving have the particular model because their husband’s wanted it (one car families). I drove the bigger car in my household (we had two) as I had four kids to ferry around.

Incompetent drivers are incompetent drivers regardless of the size of their car.

I bet you can drive yours properly, @Octavia64.

Even most small cars take up a full parking space now - it’s all the crumble zone protection. Saw an old fiesta the other day -really old one. Looked like a tin can!

Oh! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 I actually googled RR! 🤣🤣

My MIL has one. She doesn’t need it as such, but she’s flashy. She can park it though.

I agree there’s a problem with tiny parking spaces and bigger cars, though. They don’t have that problem in the US!

When I first read RR, my first thought was “where do you live, Monaco?”

Thought the OP meant Rolls-Royce!! 😫 To be fair, they are pretty big.

How horribly judgemental. “Usually in hubbys RR”?? Is it impossible she might have a RR of her own?

I’m a bit like this! Not a sex based issue though - my Dad was shit at reversing and parallel parking too and would avoid it whenever possible. I’ve just got very little spatial awareness I think. I’m equally shit in small cars. I do have a bigger car than I would chose as the kids are all over 6ft now and the 3 of them wouldn’t fit in the back otherwise. We live very rurally and so lots of single lane tracks and lots of reversing. I recently got a new electric car with great visibility and amazing sensors which has been amazing. All the local farmers know me 😂! I apologised to one once for holding him up when he stopped his tractor to say hello. He said it was fine. My reputation in the area (I’m an incomer!) is for being a bit slow but safe. It’s the people that race round blind bends who people round here get annoyed with.

edited to add:
my new car has buttons on the key fob which means you can start up and move the car forwards or backwards before getting in if someone parks too close to you!

I don’t drive on days when I’m too ill to manage it.

First of all it’s my car not my husband’s.

Second of all two women in 4x4’s meet on a country road and 9/10 both will start to reverse, but woe betide you if you meet a man. They much prefer to ignore the passing places and squeeze past mm’s away from your car whilst glaring at you.

Thirdly, it’s often quite beautiful at my local shopping centre multi story car park watching the women all arrive in their big cars and seamlessly and competently reverse into the spaces.

I live in the countryside. The women tend to have 4x4’s, the men sports cars. Neither are necessary or practical tbh, and yes we are all aware of this, before the outraged arrive.

@Zippidydoodah

i think in this case they mean a Range Rover.

In my marriage DH picks the cars because he’s very very interested in them and enjoys reading all the reviews and trawling through the ads. I don’t care about them so my car is something he picked. ( He would only pick a RR though if it was a Defender and we lived more rurally though. Yes I have to hear about it 😀)

This is exactly my issue.I now just bloody refuse to pull over or reverse.Generally it is a male driver TBH .

Because of my job I often get to drive large vehicles, Mercedes G Wagon, Ford Raptor, BMW X5, Range Rovers etc.

I would hate to take one to a multi story car park, a retail park or just try and park in a normal town centre. Parking spaces in this country haven’t got bigger but many vehicles have. I’ve got a normal sized estate car and even with that trying to get the door open and putting DD in her car seat can be awkward at retail parks