To think that 90% of Range Rover owners

[Dinosauratemypudding]

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

[Cherryskypie]

The women driving RR I've seen are blonde but younger and thinner than you've said OP. I could have one but it's too high to put the dogs into. One of them likes to be lifted in and out of the boot and is over 30kg rather heavy. I'll stick with the old Volvo.

[ClaudiaApfelstrudel]

YANBU op, and not to mention the damage these fashion accessory cars are doing to the environment!

[SirChenjin]

It could be worse though - it could be one of those awful Overfinch things

[Fortybingowings]

In the city, it's just a badge nothing more. Like Mulberry, Bugaboo, Joules, Boden and bloody Prosecco.
RR to me screams boring middle class stereotype.
However, if someone wanted to overtake me on the school run in an RS3 for example, then I'd think they were cool as fuck.
Each to their own, and we're all allowed to spend our hard-earned cash how we like!

[UmbongoUnchainedInAPearTreeeee]

If you think they're too big then you're not seeing them being driven properly. I can still drive around the tiny back lanes of Cornwall while letting other cars pass me with no problems at all.

[Grumpyaboutchristmas]

Unless you live on a hill in a country with permanently inclement weather, then no, YANBU. It's yet another vehicular cock extension and a desire to feel like you're the biggest bastard on the road so every fucker should get out of your way. I bloody hate them.

[Sussex1983]

Own a RR. Not Blonde. Not middle aged. Can drive. Very nice person. Might not 'need' it, but you could say the same for lot of things. I like it & I pay for it, not sure why it would irritate anyone else.

[TinklyLittleLaugh]

Yes "new money" is a particularly vile phrase. God forbid that anyone who hasn't been solidly middle class for umpteen generations should have cash to spend. How very dare they.

We are working class made good. We don't aspire to crumbling characterful old houses (we had enough of the cold and damp growing up), or private education for our kids (like us they are bright enough to do just fine in the comprehensive system). We like our cars though, chavs that we are.

We like our holidays too but that's another story.

[littlemissangrypants]

My dp has a Range Rover too. We go camping and manage to fit all the kit in it including a 7 berth tent. It has the largest boot space of all the cars on road. We also take it to scotland and drive up some pretty hilly places with it.
On top of that we have 2 6ft kids in back and they never struggle for space. It's a big car but dp can drive and park it. I rarely get to tease him for parking like range rover man. Dp has always wanted a Range Rover since he was young so it's his dream car and with our life style the car works. It's also pretty handy for costco trips.

[DinosaursRoar]

Disclaimer - I don't own a 4X4 of any type.

It's the argument that people don't need to drive them for day to day that pisses me off - do you all own a fleet of cars? If you need a 4X4 for weekends, or even for just a weekend a month, it's not like most people can justify buying a 2nd small car purely for the supermarket run.

We own 2 cars, so for most 'popping around' journeys, I use my tiny little thing, but many families don't need 2 cars, and can't justify the cost of having a spare one sat on the drive for the weekends.

Oh and DH's car is an estate car, takes up the same amount of road and parking space as most 4x4s, is probably less fuel efficient as well - but somehow estate cars are seen as "practical family cars for familes that needs to cart about lots of things/people/pets" and RR/4x4s are for "posh wannabe twats".

[PoloStar]

We live down a private lane and the number of tiny cars (think VW Up!) that come down to the end and can't reverse out again is scary. One tried turning round and it took her about 27 goes, with a strong smell of burning clutch. (while I watched her with my arms folded)

I drive a Hilux pickup and can not only reverse up the drive but also turn round at the end.

People need to learn to drive properly, regardless of what car they have.

[LikelyLama]

I like belingo's, they have sliding doors, are cheap as chips, have excellent visibility and are really roomy. It like driving a greenhouse it's so light and airy. My mum has one and I'm almost envious. 🚙🚙🚙

[LikelyLama]

A lot of bigger fancy cars have parking cameras these days so parking is easy peasy.

[DinosaursRoar]

oh so sorry didn't answer: YABU to assume that 90% of range rover owners don't need a car that big - while they might not need it for that particular journey, few people buy a car that big and expensive when then never need a big, powerful car.

[paddypants13]

I used to drive a big Jeep Grand Cherokee (oh how I miss her.) partly because I bloody well wanted to and partly because we live in the middle of nowhere.

The amount of aggressive driving I was subjected to by other drivers was incredible. I sometimes had to drive in a more aggressive fashion than I would normally just to get my self out of sticky situations.

Maybe that's a factor for other big 4 x 4 drivers?

[limitedperiodonly]

I once watched a docu about people defending ranger rovers saying that they're safer for their kids to be in.

What a gripping piece of television that must have been OP.

Meanwhile my vehicle of choice is a bus. Takes up more room than a ranger rover but we there are more of us to wave at you as it forces you and your crappy Berlingo into a ditch

[trufflepiggy]

My parents have one but to be fair they live up a mountain and when it snows it is the only way they can get out!

Most people don't need one.

[ForalltheSaints]

Agreed, and the same could be said for Chelsea tractor owners. My idea would be to make anyone who wants one take a separate driving test, which I think would put many of them off buying one.

[ImTiredMum]

I always think of them as drug dealers cars

^ really? so working class can't have them too?

[HerFaceIsaMapOfTheWorld]

Yes they are annoying but not bully's. The bully's are the vans and lorries

[BlancheBlue]

imtiredmum you think there are no middle class drug dealers then?

[HerFaceIsaMapOfTheWorld]

lol drug dealer cars have you been watching essex boys

[FlyingElbows]

If there's one thing that does my tits right in its fannies driving in the middle of country roads who expect me to plant my truck into the hedge so they don't have to get any dirt on their nice clean pedestrian sensible family car! Fuck actual off. Yes it's a proper 4x4 but that does not mean I want to break all its underneaths by grounding it in a proper field ditch. Mine is massive and shiny black and sporty and makes me look like an amusing fat middle aged (but not blonde) drug dealer and I love it. It doesn't fit in parking spaces and I could fit loads of grannies under it. There is no way I could drive over our land to check the animals in a Nissan micra or some worthy eco thing. You can't fit many bales of hay in a fiat punto or pull a horsebox with a corsa. We do have a corsa as well. I am very very aware of how potentially dangerous it is but I am also very grateful for how safe it is. No more so than when some entitled prick planted his mid life crisis car into the back of us. We barely felt it and his car was like a crumpled bit of paper. You can keep range rovers, they're too flash and "executive" for me (I need a car you can put mud in) but I love my proper 4x4.

[JacquesHammer]

Unless you live on a hill in a country with permanently inclement weather, then no, YANBU. It's yet another vehicular cock extension and a desire to feel like you're the biggest bastard on the road so every fucker should get out of your way. I bloody hate them

No cock extension here. I'm female. I am single. However my 4x4 suits my needs. And no. I don't think people should get out of my way. I think all drivers should drive with a modicum of sense.

Sadly many - and that isn't limited to one type of car owner - don't.

Oh and mine has low emissions and is very economincal