to hate SUVs & the bints who drive them?

[scariboo]

ds changed schools recently & where once I was only perplexed by people driving SUVs, I now (almost) HATE them. Barging up & down the narrow lanes leading to the school, taking the space of 1.5 cars, arrogant, rude, more money than brains, splutter, splutter

^^^ hear hear - about the no need to get poncy cars in case you have to take other peoples kids. Bloody stupid argument. Like I said nowt wrong with my nissan micra..

^ was meant to be to Rivens post

Coolma It's not an argument, it is a fact: My DC's have a friend back after school once or twice a week. For this to happen we need a bigger car (just imagine if I posted saying I regularly have 5 young children in my car and don't use car seats - AIBU?!)

Therefore when choosing a new car how many seats it had was a significant consideration - don't really see the issue.

Not making it an issue - just stating that i wouldn't want a big gas guzzling unfriendly car that will probably make me disliked, in a town like cambridge where you can walk everywhere or cycle, just to pamper my kids! Bloody silly reason if you ask me!!

Coolma Ah well fair enough. We live in a city where you can neither walk or cycle anywhere and a "big gas guzzling unfriendly" car doesn't get you disliked because it is considered the only sane option if you want your children to live to be teenagers.

ok, sorry if sounded grumpy - didn't mean to !

Aw Riven must be tough on you both. Sometimes it is the little things like shared lifts that mean so much (Mean that in a totally genuine way should the lack of an "I'm being honestly genuine not patronising emoticon" fail to convey that.)

Can your DD travel easily in a car without her wheelchair? or is a WAV your only option?

Riven Would you find it odd if I bought a bigger car because once a week me DH and the DC's wanted to take mil out for the day? I honestly don't see it as much different from that so not odd or altruistic - lets face it I am doing it for my DC's not anyone else. It makes their lives happier if their friends can come to their house sometimes.

And to be honest we wouldn't have spent any less if we hadn't bought the SUV - we had a budget for a car regardless of type. On balance the SUV was a better option because it takes three car seats comfortably and I can share the school run/pick up DC's friend's from school. We just bought the car that best accommodated our needs.

No big deal...although I am happy to be considered as all round generous altruistic person .

We can get four children in our Nissan Micra--two of them secondary age.

Well I can fit five car seats in a galaxy.

hooray, someone else bigging up the micra!

I love the fact that my renalt master van is biger than all these 4 by 4's
I cans ee over them
I take up space for 2 cars as well.......

YANBU if they don't live on a farm/other simelar, they are just selfish and dangerous. usually bad drivers too.

Bint is sexist. You don't have to be a woman to drive/park badly.

Anybody with a massive car that they can't park deserves every scornful glance they get IMO, male or female.

This goes out to the arsehole who saw fit to park 6" away from my car door, making me clamber in the passenger side. Twat.

4x4 are no more polluting than other cars, they are just estate cars but higher up. there is a massive snob value attached to them, but who cares?

Vauxhall corsa's can get up Glaciers in Iceland. We know because we managed it in our hired corsa back in 1999

Bit hairy coming back down on the gravel roads mind you

I love my very small SUV but I can also drive and park a tractor and reverse a tractor and trailer so I don't think I qulaify as a bint.

I detest SUVs. they are ugly, incredibly expensive, polluting and useless in all but a tiny minority of cases.

They are cars for men with inferiority complexes and their dissatisfied wives, and I am sure IABU but if I could ban them I would, this is how much I hate them

I am not sure I've ever seen a bint driving an SUV, but they are driven by the wives of men who are never home.

The men have a £50k mercedes and the wife ferries a couple of enormously over priveledged kids around in an SUV.

Well, that is what happens where I live.

The man thinks he is a good driver, and the woman thinks, that as she has an SUV she is a safe driver.

The kids aren't thinking anything as they are playing on their DS.

Well I can't be expected to see out of the back of my asexual mums mobile can I? Especially not wearing sunglasses against the searing rain-clouds.

I only have one child but I do have to pack a violin and an au pair into the back. It's a real necessity when you have to park on the zig-zags in order to take part in the school-run fashion parade without actually getting cold or wet.

And there is a sharp 0.001% incline between Kensington and Chelsea which I have to negotiate you know. It has mud there in winter.

And I drive past a state school where large people are crossing. They regularly damage my bull-bar!

spot on, Miggsie

Ford Transit Crew Vans are the answer.

They have 6 seats, which accomodates our family & a friend.

You can chuck EVERYTHING you will ever need in the back. No farting around attempting to pack two week's camping gear in a boot. (We originally bought it because dh is a muso & gigs a lot, so back usually full of amplifiers).

We used to have a Rover (inherited from parents), & the van is cheaper to run & has the same wheelbase.

Obviously, being a fugly white van, it doesn't have quite the 'I have lots of money, drive like a twat & care nothing for other road users or pedestrians' cachet of an urban 4X4, but I think that's sufficiently offset by one's being occasionally mistaken for a Daily Star reader.