If you buy a massive 4×4 SUV...

[bravefox]

... to ask you to practise parking it in a single space? Saturday afternoon in the town multistorey and the number of huge cars parked half in a second space is 🤯

Same applies to people with small cars who equally are fucking dire at parking.

We need to start heavily taxing these fucking things and restricting their ability to enter builtup areas. They belong in rural areas.

They are heavily taxed!

I have one, I live rurally so parking isn't often a problem, but I can park it in a bay if needs be. There should be a test for them and proof of why you need one!

I pay the highest rate of car tax for mine. £735 a year. It’s 16 years old, looks it, and I live “rurally”. It spends most of its time in a rural environment and gets used in fields etc.

Occasionally though I do have to travel into town. What do you expect me to do? Buy another car just so that I can do some shopping?

Surely if you buy any car the onus is on you to learn how to park it properly. Or is it just the drivers of certain cars that need to do so

Small sites possibly. Like those that work on your house or a small project but the million plus projects have everything provided on site. Individuals don’t turn up with all their own stuff and nor do they go out and buy materials for the project
Of note. This is partly down to health and safety

Have to say as someone said up thread I find people driving smaller cars as big a problem as they seem to just drive in and dump. And regularly I witness women dumping small cars into parent and young children spaces and walking away without any children whatsoever. That's entitled women of all ages on all car parks. More small cars than large as well.

Is that a reference to the tea party crash in 2023?

You’re wrong in so many ways.

But life is too short to argue with people like you on the internet.

Singapore (i think) has that so you pay the tax and/or buy 2 cars one for weekends, one for city driving.
And if that was the city with "odd number" plates only one day then "even number" plates the next solution was 2 cars swapped to meet the requirement.

Well exactly. We should be trying to reduce consumerism, not requiring families to have two cars, as many do already.

Which I’m guessing is fine……..🤷‍♀️

I don't think it’s Singapore. It’s difficult to do anything but city driving there. Car ownership is incredibly expensive though, even for mere mortals.

And so it should be, cars are very destructive, people should walk more.

Easy to do if you live in a tiny over populated city state. Not so easy in the UK.

Especially when councils and planning departments keep approving out of town shopping and housing estates miles from anywhere.

So if Estates ( like the Octavia for example ) are OK what’s wrong with SUVs regarding parking.

Really? I remember their policy of cars over 10 years old getting scrapped.or exported.

Even then in hot countries industries tend to cluster as its hard to attract employees from competitors when they have to add an extra rides or go "out" extra stops on busy public transport. And more exposed to the weather the routes are the tighter the cluster.

Not sure.
Japan did the same so imports of "good" second hand but hard to get parts trade was a whole cuffle too.

Mine is an ev

And they say money can’t buy class.

The current tax on SUVs should be doubled if not tripled. People need to be encouraged to drive microcars which are smaller and more considerate.

Micro cars? And strap the kids car seats to the roof?

They tend not to float very well and have low air intake 🤷‍♀️