To think that if you have 4x4...

[SoupDragon]

... you should move across to drive in the snowy bit of road and leave the clear part to the ordinary car coming towards you?

It is, after all, the one time per year that your 4x4 is actually necessary in town.

I do! I love moving aside for lesser vehicles!

anyway, 4x4 owners are heroes after helping to rescue the stranded motorists last night

You'd think so wouldn't you SoupDragon.

Thing is, I think many 4x4 drivers are actually the less confident, less good drivers (hence the need to huddle in an oversized tank all year round) and so they're probably a teensy bit scared of the snow!

Makes me giggle really. These people spend a fortune on their tank, pay vastly increased road tax, huge fuel bills, and then on the one or two days each decade that their 4x4 might actually prove useful, many of us are off work anyway so don't need to go out!

Hee hee

or even ofer to get a few bits (bread, milk, etc) for your neighbours when they are snowed in and you are going into town? Rahter than let said neighbour trek 2 miles each way in the driving snow to get essentials for her (young) children?

I so wish we still had our 4x4. the first eyar we had it, everyone lughed, and then we got snowed in (roads very icy). I'd have another like a shot.

And yes, i would drive on the snowy bit. After all, that's the point, innit?

must not get too smug in case this is me later today . . .

anyway don't tar all 4x4 owners with same brush, I need mine for work [sticking out tongue emoticon]

and many selfless land rover owners sign up for Rover Rescue schemes, such as in Exeter last night, and are on call at times like this to rescue people

Ah, but there's an exception for proper rural 4x4 drivers, Mitchy. Respect

Round here the 4x4's are Chelsea Tractors and style accessories driven through the town centre to get their owners to the railway station. Driven by prats too.

yes there is no excuse for those

don't think anyone can accuse mine, which is not unlike an actual tractor (!) of being a style accessory, what with its dents, flashing orange light, manual windows and a 'climate control system' that consists of flaps you open or close under the windscreen!

Generalisation to the fore again! Maybe the odd person is actually at work violethill because they have a 4 x 4!!! I actually think many (please note - not all!!) of the people off work could actually get in, but can't be bothered to make the effort.

And to the OP - of course they should move over.

Deffo not a style accessory! Now you NEVER see one like that round here - it wouldn't match the Boden

although this one is a newer, shinier and more stylish version of mine

• I will try to stop talking about my land rover and actually go out in it instead

A mate of mine in the west country has one of those! Heated seats, apparently

pah

I have not got heated anything - hot air comes out on the passenger side but I can't reach the steering wheel/pedals from there

mine is a wanked out pile of crap really, but I still want to marry it

My mate's wife says he has an unnaturally close relationship with his too

they probably have road tyres on

or are not proper 4x4s

I'm still learning how to drive in snow though, the best approach seems to be to rely on a nearby tree or ditch to stop me as the brakes don't really work on snow?

I am off work because my workplace is shut. Been open all week and I've managed perfectly well in a small peugeot.

I agree with riven - IME 4x4s are usually driven by nervous mothers who can't handle them.

I don't think there are alot of drivers who actually know how to drive in the snow, not just 4x4 drivers. We don't get enough of it in this country for people to know how to drive in snow.

City drivers don't do they? I bet most of them have never driven offroad - they haven't a clue.

The situations where people actually need to drive a 4x4 are pretty rare - and as mitchy says, you'd need to be in the middle of nowhere to avoid walkers. If you can't control a vehicle, you are a danger to anyone else in the vicinity. Particularly walkers. I wish the twats in 4x4s who were sliding dangerously close to the pavement as I walked my dd to school earlier understood that.

You could call me a city driver - as I live and work in a city - but I've moved up from the rural south to the north - and I can drive on snow as we used to get properly snowed in. Not even the 4x4s could get through - tractor had to go out on day 2 to a nearby village to get milk and bread for people....

what a lot of bollocks. It's not just 4x4 drivers that have trouble driving in snow. I can pretty much guarantee that most of you whinging on this thread about 4x4s will also hate BMW drivers, sportscar drivers......

Yep sportscar drivers are the spawn of satan too. And BMW drivers deffo dodgy

Though I may modify that statement in the rather unlikely event of dh buying me an Aston Martin convertible for my birthday

4x4 without winter or off-road tyres just means you've got twice the number of driven wheels spinning like mad. This is what some irritates me about a lot of Chelsea tractor drivers - they assume that 4x4s can bypass the laws of physics, especially wrt friction and momentum. Little FWD hatchback with proper tyres will run rings round them - original minis are brilliant at this, as their tyres are so narrow.

I want a go in Mitchy's 4x4!

I hate those 4x4 drivers who live in towns and who don't seem to be able to drive properly. They appear to drive in the middle and park about a foot from the pavement outside dc's school so nobody can get past.

In saying that, after this weather I really want one - my elderly, rusty (but much loved) corsa went to the big scrapyard in the sky last week - don't think this country living suited her tbh.

The lanes leading to my house are never gritted and I'm getting pretty nervous driving a normal car to do the school run.

I hate 4X4's, so YANBU

come on then sb6699, we're late!

and when the 4x4 haters bandwagon gets stuck in the snow shall we tow them out or not?