To think that 90% of Range Rover owners

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Don't need such a big fucking car and should buy something else amd stop taking up most of the fucking road.

I don't drive!

But I don't think I claimed to be chic did I? I just stated that I think that white Range Rovers are tacky. But that's a pretty mainstream opinion.

Where I live white Range Rovers seem to be the Boden Mum's car of choice, so presumably not really tacky as such.

But they are great to drive, and fitted up with cameras here there and everywhere to make them easy to park and manoeuvre. Lots of people choose a car on what it is like to drive, not just what it looks like or its image.

There are always cars that are status symbols.

Yes brasty.... do you think that many blokes with big exhausts on their cars realise that most people are thinking big exhaust, small penis.

Oh those exhausts that make so much noise! What's that all about? And they're always fitted to dinky little Ford Fiestas or similar. So bloody noisy!

Yes, you don't need one of these unless you live up a farm track. All the ones I see, and I do live in a rural area, will NOT give an inch when you meet them on a narrow lane, and very rarely will one pull into the passing place to give way. God forbid they get a bit of mud on them, or actually have to go off the road to allow other more sensible drivers to pass.

I am a flash twat that makes Kerry Katona look like the Duchess of Cambridge. However our RR is often mud splattered and we always give way. I am also not sure why the RR is seen as quite so braggy - there are other more expensive cars that do command attention. Nobody bats an eyelid at a RR really. If I just wanted to show off I would drive something else .

We live in the country. We are hip deep in immaculate white/silver Range Rovers driven by blonde, gym bunnies who are clearly terrified of their car.

It's hilarious to watch them trying to manoeuvre them, clutching the steering wheel for dear life.

I have been on a Range Rover driving course, so know how to handle one properly. But for the gym bunnies they are just a status symbol, alongside their over sized Michael Kors bag and their plastic-fantastic McMansions.

No, thanks.

philoslothy you sound quite proud of the fact that you're more crass than Kerry Katona. I thought most people would make a concious effort to nit be like her.

Strangely enough, we were driving back from a day out today- lethal roads, lots of traffic as there was an event on at the place we were at. As we were pulling out, there was a RR behind us- big shiny fucking huge thing. I said to DH, oh God there was a thread on MN about RR drivers being twats, I hope he doesn't ride up our arse the whole way home.

Well, he drove beautifully, and really carefully, keeping plenty of distance, slowing down at the 30 zones and all the rest of it. DH and I decided that we will allow him to keep his RR, once we rule the world in our ancient car

I find clean ones funny. My sister has a farm and swapped her old tank for a tractor. Hers was full of straw, rope, chainsaws, various creatures, etc. and the outside covered in poo.

We live on the city where most are souped up shiny amg buggers without a scratch, dent or splash of dirt. I know we have a few potholes, but really, Tamara doing the school run to Chelsea and back would do better in a mini.

I quite enjoy going home and seeing the good old defenders ploughing along with farmers at the wheel. It looks 'right' somehow. Like urban sheepdogs - it's just not quite right is it?

philoslothy you sound quite proud of the fact that you're more crass than Kerry Katona. I thought most people would make a concious effort to nit be like her.

I don't really feel anyway about it, I can't help my background - I either embrace it or turn into one of those people who tries to hide who I am. I am working class and don't really want to pretend to be anything else.

Where I live in the countryside, (back of beyond, lots of well to do types) the truly rich people drive Skodas and VWs. They don't give a shit about how much their car costs.

Same here mable. The gleaming white RRs are lined up outside the local private school. Whereas outside the local free grammar it's all battered Audis and 12 year old Volvo estates

It's not unreasonable to have a go at people who drive poorly, dangerously or discourteously.

It is unreasonable to assume it's stereotypical of people who own a specific brand of car.

I love cars but there are only 2 I care about - what I drive and what my husband does.

I think there's a lot of judgypants being pulled way up people's arses on this thread and quite a lot of reverse snobbery.

As usual on MN it's ageist to say you don't like children, sexist to do most things, racist to say Eskimo, even if you hadn't read until yesterday it was crime of the century.

People with money/Muslims/Gulf Arabs/4x4 drivers? Fill yer boots, the more offensive the comments the better. Why do any of you care so much how a woman chooses to dress or style her hair and what car she drives. Sometimes it's hard not to assume that there are lots of bitter, unfulfilled little people on this website but as I am not one for stereotyping I will just ignore them.

So are the truly rich all at the grammar with the beat up cars? Whereas all us thickos are at the private school with our white gleaming range rovers on the never never. Probably starving our kids so that we can afford the school fees, gym fees and petrol costs.

I love this thread.

Oh come off it, grammar school parents are mostly sharp elbowed middle class professional people (and massive social climbers). They're really not pootling around in clapped out old cars, if anything that'll be the parents being crippled by school fees.

And then I shall shake my mane and roar away in my Escalade

Tinkly if I managed to save a few hundred grand on school fees by getting my children into a grammar I would buy a fleet of white range rovers.

Of course if we cared about our children's education we would have paid school fees, instead we sent them to the comp and bought a big shiny car instead.

That doesn't make sense philoslothy I too am working class and can no way afford to be a flash twat, or would I want to be one

There's nary a white RR to be seen at our grammar. Lots of older VWs and estate cars instead.

I'm not saying they drive poorly eatshit I'' saying that they're too wide for the road, that even driven well they will still struggle to give enough space

Oh, hang on...think I misunderstood Mable's post.

It's not the rich parents at our grammar at all. Just certainly no driving of ostentatious 4x4s they're parked outside the private school

That's probably the teachers Le Queen. We don't have a grammar school system but plenty of the bright kids' parents at our state primary drive new 4x4s.

There is no inherent nobility in driving a dirty scruffy car if you can afford better. It's like the chattering classes who send their kids out with snarly hair and dirty ill fitting clothes.