to get fed up with receiving more than the average amount of abuse on the road just because I drive a range rover?

[Mrs4x4]

I get the whole environment thing psses some people off but this seems out of proportion with the abuse. I am a considerate driver and really object to the abuse especially when my DC's are in the car and people are swearing. Recently parked car in a supermarket carpark to have someone who lived in a nearby flat on one of the higher floor start shouting that i should get back in my RR and pss off.

Don't agree with your choice of vehicle, but don't believe you should be verbally abused because of it.
Why would someone shout that?

yanbu

Apparently a meat eater driving a low emmission hybrid car causes more environmental damage than a vegetarian driving a 4x4.

How horrible for you.

TBH many 4x4s have better than the average saloon for fuel consumption, so I wouldnt worry too much on that score.

Agree with Lizzylou. Would never actually say anything abusive or drive aggressively near you, even though disagree with the choice of vehicle.

Because I was raised to be non-confrontational and generally nice. And maybe because I'm aware that my car would probably come off significantly worse if you were to be aggressive back. [thinks like can of sardines opening up]

It's out of order for someone to swear at you when your dcs are in the car or if you're not being rude, aggressive, ignorant, inconsiderate, crap at parking or any of the other characteristics those of us in humbler ( less energy sapping and dangerous) vehicles than you have come to expect from 4x4 types.

Probably won't really endear yourself to many with your choice of nickname either

PMSL soupdragon. Do you think there's maybe an opening for signs like "baby on board" but "vegetarian non-flyer" instead.

I can't understand why anybody living in a town/city would drive a Range Rover. I was thinking about that this very afternoon when an enormous RR parked next to my car, taking up so much space that I had to squeeze DS2 into the car through an inch-wide gap. They're just too big unless you own a country estate.
But I don't think people should be shouting abuse at you for your (poor) choice, so YANBU.

I drive a small Clio but number 3 is on it's way so having to change to a people carrier which I am dreading as I am utterly rubbish at parking. In some car parks the spaces are tiny so that if I park between two cars I have to squeeze the DDs out, what the hell do you do in a RR?

My neighbours have a 7 seater and they have one toddler, why?

On Top Gear that big 4x4 that James may was driving across London was six feet wide, apparently thats alot for a car.

LOL pooka. Perhaps I could get one saying "tubes tied after 2" to demonstrate my commitment to the planet. And before anyone with more than 2 children starts a rant I am ofcourse only joking.

who poses more of a risk to the pedestrian, the meat eating hybrid driver or the veggie 4x4?

Oh I dont abuse 4 x 4 drivers.

Well, no more than any drivers that cant park for toffee and dont know how to use reverse gear

well, you do take up more than the average amount of road.

Totally unneccessary in a city and cause LOADS of probs. They're supposed to be for people who have to drive across rough terrain, fields, rocks, dirt tracks etc.

Not up and down Deansgate in Manchester City Centre with their blacked out windows!!!!

{fume fume}

Surely it depends what kind of 'meat' they eat, quad

Sweetkitty, you don't have to get a people carrier (unless you've got enormous car seats) Some of the smaller MPVs fit three children fine. I know two families with three children under 6 and one drives a Chrysler PT Cruiser and the other a Vauxhall Meriva.
My Cruiser fits three car seats in the back and it's nice and short, so easy to park (and you can still get tons in the boot).

)Oh I make a point of routinely dmaging 4X4s.

I had a very practical estate car when i had three children, they are a bit dull but they do the job.

Lyra - I liked the look of a Meriva but thought theres no way I could get 3 seats in the back, will have 4yo 2.6yo and newborn. Am looking at a Renault Scenic or Focus C-max probably Scenic as they are cheaper and theres loads about. I am scared of them though they all look like buses.

So Mrs4x4, who do you drive a Range Rover if it's making your life difficult? Do you own a country estate?

yanbu. that person was awful to you. unfortunately there is becoming an 'image' that people associate with 4x4 drivers, just like they have about women drivers. personally, i drive a large people carrier,and i sometimes get it aswell, funnily enough its always men who give me road rage,never other women drivers

The Scenic and the C-max are good options, not too big but big enough. But tbh anything is going to seem like a bus after a Clio