Ban adverts for SUVs?

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see www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53607147.
Personally I think it would be pointless, as I suspect people have already made up their mind that they want an over-sized car and and the lack of adverts will not change their minds.

Pointless....

Not pointless at all. Banning cigarette advertising made a big difference.
Next step would be to ban them from parking on the roads (parallel to smoking in public)
Baby steps...

It sounds ridiculous. Larger cars are very expensive so people only buy them if they need them. And it does take a large SUV to fit in 2 toddlers in their seats, a buggy and a weekly shop. Hardly excessive...

I would like them banned from car parks as the drivers are often incapable of parking them.
Funny how people managed with smaller cars in the past.

And it does take a large SUV to fit in 2 toddlers in their seats, a buggy and a weekly shop

Does it fuck like.

To continue, '2 toddlers in their seats, a buggy and a weekly shop' would fit perfectly well in my small estate car with a 1 litre petrol engine.

Have to agree with @BarbaraofSeville, we use to manage two toddlers on car seats, a buggy and a weekly shop in a Fiesta. It's was hardly like tetris either.

Yesterday I was behind three SUV drivers at different points in my journey and none of them appeared to be able to drive them well. Crawling along a residential street at 10mph, too nervous to drive through a gap with plenty of space for them - one took five attempts to straighten enough to pull into a parking space.

I live 3 miles from the centre of a major city, hardly an off-roading paradise

And it does take a large SUV to fit in 2 toddlers in their seats, a buggy and a weekly shop

Does it fuck like.

I concur totally not needed, you can do a weekly shop using a double buggy with kids in if you wanted to.

My off-road buggy would take up the whole boot in a Fiesta. It also doesn’t sound like you’re 6ft or 6ft4 as we are: it really does do your back in getting a child into a low down car. Not to mention that DH doesn’t even fit behind he wheel of most smaller cars.

My run around car is a small crossover but it’ll definitely be a large SUV next.

If a Fiesta is good enough for someone it really isn’t likely they’d be spending £££ on a much bigger car.

I really don’t get the SUV hate.

The problem is that lots of saloons or MPVs are now being chunked you and the whole category is becoming huge and blurred.

Also, what about PHEVs and similar? I suppose you could do it by car tax category?

Is a tuscon classed as a SUV. We went to my parents for the weekend with a 2 and 5yo. 2yo rear facing and 5yo in a maxi Cosi hbb. No room in the middle for an adult. As the passenger my seat is quite far forward due to car seat.
Boot had buggy, a few bags and a scooter and was completely full.
Advertising did not influence our decision rather the fact that it is higher up so I find it easier to get in and out of and get kids out.
I drove a Ka for 10 years and feckin loved it!

I say do it, if it were 'pointless' to do that they wouldn't spend on adverts.

SUV hate is obviously due to higher fuel consumption.

It would be a no lose policy change, unless you work in the oil industry.

Muppets who designed this stupid "campaign" are the ones that should be banned.

Hiding cigarette ad's hasn't exactly caused smoking to plummet to zero, has it?

Neither will this.

“Advertising doesn’t work on me”.

Said everyone, ever.

Pointless.

Maybe it’s the only car type of car they physically can access or get out of when their bones are fusing together like rock and the joints don’t bend to actually allow them to use a lower vehicle......

People can look online, hear ads on the radio, see a link on Youtube, use any kind of media to get info.

It’s the job of the brand to raise public awareness of their company though.

They just need to be taxed appropriately by size and weight, rather than just emissions, no point banning advertising.

ours is a 4wd crossover rather than a proper suv so slightly smaller, fantastic fuel economy. It was the best option we could get when we needed a 4wd due to off road useage. Not all cars are created equally, if the information is not out there then we couldn't have made sensible choices.

@labyrinthloafer

I say do it, if it were 'pointless' to do that they wouldn't spend on adverts.

SUV hate is obviously due to higher fuel consumption.

It would be a no lose policy change, unless you work in the oil industry.

On the higher fuel consumption, not necessarily - things like the Qashqai, Rav-4, Sportage etc come in with combined MPG between 50-60. (And I’d wager that even most of the models heavier on fuel are far more ecologically friendly than the apocryphal 20-year-old bangers so adored by so many MN-ers desperate to let everyone know how little they care about such common, tacky things as nice cars!)

Anyway, concur banning adverts would be pointless. I don’t drive an SUV but I do own several fuel inefficient cars because I like them. The way to discourage people from buying them is to make them prohibitively expensive through taxation, and the government hasn’t made it prohibitive enough yet.

Some newer SUVs are electric... this would be pointless. Cars are changing.

I always drive premium second hand estate cars. The only other type of car I’d consider is an SUV, but most of the smaller ones are too small in the boot anyway so I’d be in full size Range Rover category. 2m flat behind the back seat is ideal for me with the back seats down, that’s my main requirement. Different people have different needs, my OH likes small cars easy to park because he only drives it locally. Car TV adverts don’t really make any difference because I research for a while before I buy a car. It seems a bit unnecessary to ban advertising them, if people want them they will just research and get them because people buy cars with features that suit their needs.

If I wanted one, I'd buy one. Cigarette advertising and it's lack of, didn't make me forget about cigarettes.

It seems that many people looking to ban SUVs are simply just jealous. Get over yourselves!

@clipclop5 that's a pretty strange interpretation, what is there to be jealous of??