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

I wish I could change my lovely estate car to one a bit higher off the ground as I drive over fields a lot and have regularly heard that disconcerting sound of my exhaust system sraping a groove along the ground.

I drive over fields deliberately, obviously, I'm not an impatient driver taking a short cut.

@ TrickOrNinks

pushing it slightly there darling

I confess that I am somewhat frightened of the sort of women who drive 4 x 4 cars and it is not just because they might run me over.

I drive a large Volvo.
I tried hard to find a car to fit three seats safely in.
We paid less for it than a smaller car.
We walk to school nearly every day.

I also used to drive an ambulance!

What makes me angry is those that judge a person because of the car they drive.

If I came on here and said that I really dislike all those poor chavvy people who drive small cars, I would quite rightly get my arse kicked off the thread.
Dont you think?
Inverse snobbery.

I drive a ford fusion 2 - it's an mpv, not an suv. And I wouldn't be caught dead in those ridiculous sunglasses.

"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."

But the city is only unsafe for your children because everyone has to have a big car! Or were you being ironic?

I don't mind the word bint and agree with you. I live in London and there are far too many being driven really badly.

I do love the SUV-bashing threads. This is what someone has been parking outside my house recently (in central London). I am not joking, the top of the bull bar is eye level when I'm in the car. It's deliberately intimidating.

And has anyone ever noticed the preponderance of tinted windows on the blasted things?

Oh yes, and the numberplate is EGO ...

Proof, if it were needed, that it is driven by a wanker

BLDad

"But the city is only unsafe for your children because everyone has to have a big car! Or were you being ironic?"

Not being ironic at all - the city in whic I live (as said before not UK) is unsafe for children for any and all of these reasons:

i) Urban planning is non existent: slip roads on and off main roads occur within 75 metres of each other and the most acceptable place to park is the outside lane of a roundabout. Pavements are few and far between and the hard shoulder is simply used by those in a rush.

ii) It is considered acceptable for 13/14 year old boys to drive so their mums don't have too.

iii) Speed radars are set 50% above the limit and traffic police are non existent

iv) Driving tests/license distribution are joke and largely dependent on status/money

v) A Humvee is considered an acceptable choice of car for a new driver.

vi) And yes - Everyone else drives HUGE cars. I accept this is self perpetuating but I'll be damned if I will be the one to sick my head above the parapet and start driving a Yaris. Everyday on the main road you can see the result of a crash between a Yaris/Urvan minibus and a Land Crusier and the results are never pretty .

I would still really like to know why MPV's are fine and SUV's are not - they are often the same in terms of physical size/weight and emissions. I'm starting to think it is a cost issue and that alone. Someone tell me it is not.

My point was that those who do it also perpetuate it and make the enviromnent less safe for all. I guess you have chosen to live where you do, like I have.

Sorry, I don't know you or where you live and have no reason to attack or offend you, but it just irritates me when people say they have to drive, pollute, consume resources, or cannot recycle, live more sustainably etc, when these are not needs at all, but simply their lifestyle choices.

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okay - deep breath - I'm over it. A few days into half-term have done wonders. peace!

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