Poxy Chelsea Tractor Brigade

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Don't even need to ask if I'm being unreasonable because I know I'm not.

These ridiculous tanklike constructions being driven around London is just damn selfish.

Do these people think that "rough terraine" is just round the corner from Fulham High Street or something.

Hasn't this been done before - bullshit about taking two spaces. Really good family cars, great for towing and tough as hell if in an accident.

I have a Land Rover and a Range Rover too - 4 kids a trailer and a dog - marvellous

I have one. I live in Fulham. I don't take up two car parking spaces. I drive well, I park well. I don't clutter up the school run as I don't drive on the school run. I take the bus/my children scooter and I carry the baby in a sling. I have three children in carseats that I need to fit along the back. I'm too much of a snob to want to drive a Vauxhall Zafira. Is that good enough for you.

It's such an easy target. Personally I think it's the rant of a bunch of people with a chip on their shoulder who'd love to be driving a gas guzzler/hummer down Munster Road but instead do that whole tedious eschewing of all material goods. It's up there with "we spent 35p on our wedding so therefore our marriage is more VALID than you bastard materialists...". Yeah, yeah, we get it. You're a better person because you ride a bike and drive once a year in a 30 year old volvo held together with organic hemp string.

Right, got that off my chest. I'm going to drive my f*ck off car to Waitrose. See you on the streets of SW6!

I too used to live in London, and drove most if not every day. I simultaneously owned cars ranging from teeny Fiat to Merc Sports car and a LWB Bentley.

I would not consider myself inconsiderate, I parked and drove appropriately wherever I was.

Houdini, well the way most people park them they do round here.

As for the "elevated position" shame theres not a lever on the outside

My "issue" is one of selfishness of course.

I'm too much of a snob to want to drive a Vauxhall Zafira.

haha yes me too - i fucking hate them they are so bloody mediocre

While I agree that everyone should have the right to buy whatever car they choose, it is bizarre that in a part of town where the streets are incredibly narrow, and owning a 4x4 means two cars can't pass each other, people deem it appropriate to buy a car that isn't fit for purpose.

It's the equivalent of living in Siena or another ancient town and then getting cross because your Ford Transit van won't fit round the corners - ie more fool you, and yes, people will get cross and think you're a dick.

Do these people think that "rough terraine" is just round the corner from Fulham High Street or something.

You mean rough terrine, dahling :o

Kitswins - No chip here, only on a friday with my nice bit of cod. Also not an issue of being able to purchase one either.

I'm a total foodie Whatme you little hun you

In my experience most of the people driving them seem to think it gives them right of way on the road and they don't seem very adept at driving them.

Not you of course Kitswins as you don't live in the area.

Nope, not jealousy.

That's another argument I don't understand. If you don't like something, someone will always say you're jealous. Sorry but I don't like Hitler, the woman who shouts at the guy behind the counter in the cornershop or people who start fist fights in pubs.

I'm not jealous of them, I assure you.

In fact I might have to introduce the entitled cornershop biatch to the fist fighters...

< drifts off into pleasurable reverie >

fuzzy - yep, I know Hurlingham Road. Don't have to go up there much, thank the baby jebus...

Volvo and Audi do not have three fullsize seats across the back (neither does the Range Rover). The Land Rover is the only car which fits three young children in car seats (I have 3 under 3.5) + all the associated buggies. And I live in London. So there.

And our Audi A6 was longer than the LR.

YABU

I think people should be allowed to drive what they want to.... They pay road tax, insurance and MOT.

I'm pretty sure the parking, getting stuck in traffic etc would still be an issue if all 4x4s were banned from the road, it's down to the driver.. Does the same apply for vans, buses and lorrys?

The carpark of the leisure centre where DS goes to nursery is full of enormous vehicles parked across 2 spaces. And they all seem to be driven by people who are actually not very good at driving and can't work out how wide their car actually is.

It drives me bonkers - you follow one into the car park at 2 mph, stopping every 3 feet so the driver can check that she can fit through the 12 foot wide gap, take a brief hiatus at the bottom of the ramp while she mounts the curb as she misjudges the corner and then panics and stops for a while to recover, and then you sit behind her for about 10 minutes while she tries to access a parking space that is actually smaller than her car, eventually realises that it is not going to happen and parks across the two spaces that you would have parked in if she hadn't been blocking the entire car park. And then glares at you as you drive merrily into the space she just vacated as though it is your fault your car is smaller.

I have no objections whatsoever to someone who can actually drive/park trundling around in a double-decker bus if they so wish, but why do so many bad drivers seem to choose enormous cars?

Friend has 3 children and drives some sort of merc estate, kids perfectly happily insitu The issue is the sheer unnecessary width of the damn things.

letting, for me it's the narrow streets vs wide cars that drives me wild about chelsea tractors, and actually, yes, a lot of queues would be solved by people driving narrower cars. But I am coming from a very specific part of the world... ie next to Chelsea.

It's a matter of being 'fit for purpose'. Where my parents live people can drive actual tanks for all I care.

It's that bloody "what business of yours is it what people drive" attitude that drives me up the wall. Actually it's quite a lot of my business. Unless Chelsea Tractor drivers have some amazing car that runs on fresh water (and they've successfully hidden from the rest of the car buying public) larger cars have a much higher fuel consumption and that impacts us all I'm afraid. Unless of course you enjoy sending teenaged boys to middle eastern war zones to protect the last few drops of oil left from the control of dictators.

Enough froth for you? :o

...Though interestingly, my dad who is a proper flat cap wearing, whippet owning farmer, doesn't drive a Range or Land River - he manages just fine with a dauihatsu

Because it's half the price, has just as much torque for pulling shot and chasing sheep across bgs, and glamour is irrelevant to him...

kerrist.

that's pulling shit and chasing sheep across bogs, btw.

fuzzy - are her three children still in car seats or boosters? Boosters are smaller. You can not fit three car seats across the Audi/Volvo (which was suggested as an acceptable alternative to the Chelsea Tractor.

And daihatsu! Aargh!

headfairy, want to share a ? It's a cappucino

"bullshit about taking two spaces"

The problem is that the parking spaces in car parks round here are only just wide enough to accommodate one of these Chelsea Tractors. You wouldn't be able to open the door to get in or out, and neither would the cars either side of them. I admit that I avoid parking next to one in a car park if I have a choice.

I have seen a lot of 4 seater pick up trucks in my area recently.

Vans, buses and lorries are a necessity.

kenobi so who is able to drive these cars then?