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 🤯

Hilarious! 🤣

99% of the spaces in this country are 2.4 x 4.8 so considering the obesity levels I dont think its a red herring.

Im a size 8 and struggle to get in and out half the time of normal bays in normally sized cars. Absolutely no idea how larger people do it!

Thank god I have young kids atm as the child bays are a nice reprieve from the squeeze.

When I see a big SUV on the school run I just think ‘there’s someone on the school run’.

I think thank goodness for parking sensors and depending on how many car parking spaces they blocked or obstruction the pathway, I might think they are a dick.

When I see one driving at speed, I think finger's crossed they won't hurt someone.

The size of the vehicle will give the driver an extra sense of security.

My friend has to get out of her range rover to insert a parking card, then climb back in. 😆

That's really mature 🙄

Parking spaces size I understand was set in the 70s.

Alongside updating it, there should be two categories of car licence, and if you want to drive an SUV or a high performance car, you should have to pass a test in one. Numbers would reduce if that was the case.

I'd also have double VAT or more on PCP payments for such vehicles.

In the meantime I would support parking companies making a penalty charge as technically the car has occupied two spaces, one of which was not paid for.

I'm pretty sure your car is not as wide.

If the driver cannot manage a small car, then they should not be driving.

We used to have a camper van (for transit essentially), I could always park it inside a space, not outside the lines etc. All SUVs fit in spaces, its just crap parking. My mum has a CRV, it takes up less room in a space than our civic.

Some places do have different size spaces, but usually for smaller cars, when you look at the market now there are far fewer mid size cars being made, look at the fiesta, its perfect for a family of four, small for city/town driving but big enough for four and enough boot space.

Sorry to hear you get so easily tired. Good luck with that x

I think you are unfair to single out those in the countryside. I'd guess about 99% of people with SUVs don't need them, regardless of residence.

Honestly, I think there are better ways to improve safety than banning SUVs. I once saw a child be killed on the road by a vehicle turning across their path and not seeing them. Horrific. The vehicle happened to be a lorry/tipper truck type thing, not an SUV. The rest of the planet could have been in a mini and the child would still be dead. So find other ways of improving safety on the road, stigmatising SUVs and their drivers is a noisy sideshow.

Unless you need a massive 4x4 for farm/rural reasons, I do wonder if it would save money and the environment if people that way inclined should just paint ‘I want you to think I’m rich’ on the side of a normal car 🤷🏻‍♀️😊

So more or less mature than buying a larger vehicle than required then stopping others from parking by taking 2 spaces? Do we need to build a scale here?

Emphasis on "think" as well.
I remember a school mum complaining to me that her children couldn't do any of the hobbies my children do as they are "too expensive ". Then I hopped back into my little runabout and she got into her huge SUV with a personalised reg plate.

I spend my money on adventures and activities and investments, not status symbols

In what world aren’t manufacturers selling estate cars?!

I’m looking for one right now, precisely because an SUV has less boot space and excessive width. I could see them available (sometimes multiple models) from Toyota, Seat, Skoda, VW, Hyundai, BMW, Mercedes, Volvo…

You’ll struggle with three kids in car seats or if you have a disability that means you can’t get down into a car easily, but for most other purposes they’re great and still very much available.

Massive SUV = massive dickhead.

But it doesn’t though does it. Being a massive dickhead = massive dickhead, in any car

Wow how rude are you?
Do you drive that sort of car? Sounds like it.

They still make estate cars. Our estate is awash with Skoda Octavias, VW Passats, Audi A4s and 6s, Ford Focuses and at least one BMW all in estate versions. Mercedes do them as well.

A local fit lad was killed outright last year, his body landed 100 metres from the accident.

I don't think a normal size car would have had such an impact.

Accidents happen. I completely understand why driver's want the safest car for their family, however the risks to the other person.

If every jumped on the SUV bandwagon, there would be no space.

My Dsis has the X trail. It's a monster vehicle.

I’m surprised you can only access one of the larger 4x4 SUVs if you have spinal/lower limb/joint issues requiring a higher entry. (noting my assumption of mid-lower body issues rather than upper body with other requirements- apologies if I’m wrong)
By chance I’ve also a lot of experience in this area and most patients prefer a mid range size SUV model for a higher sitting position, not the larger size. Curious.
Did your service advise bigger and higher? Obvs extra vehicle width is irrelevant as even electric wheelchairs fit normal width vehicles but do need extra parking Soave length for exit (apart from the few who are side exit).
please let me know if any of these assumptions are incorrect.

When we are all forced to buy electric cars /vehicles , they are heavier than petrol/diesel , the multi storey car parks will not be able to cope with the extra weight .

But they won't spend ££ strengthening them. They;ll make fewer spaces . Maybe bigger ? And charge more as they need to make up the shortfall.

So you might get the bigger space you want .

I e got a little fiesta that I have to drive rurally everyday. ( not a farmer) I have had to have the suspension fixed twice because of pot holes, bumpy country lanes uneven roads.

I'm considering getting an SUV so that the suspension can take it, then I look at the other huge ones in car parks and on roads ( when I'm pushed into the hedge because of their precious car) and wonder if I'm giving in to the madness.

Who's 'forcing' you to own a car?

All cars are wanky child killing machines, and always have been.

I saw my 2 yr old brother being run over in 1983. Believe me, that car was not as big as today's but still as deadly.

Yes I have 2x SUVs.

Very proud to have worked my socks off for them.

Like I said, car manufacturers spend millions on customer research into creating vehicles customers want to buy.

And overwhelmingly, its SUVs.

Simply supply and demand. Get over it.