4x4 do you own one and do you get hostilities from other drivers

[Blueglass]

I have just aquired one and get constantly picked on. And before you ask it is not my driving

I had a Grand Cherokee Jeep for 3 years and have had the Volvo XC90 for the past year. Have never had any abuse.

I have never abused a 4x4 driver but if my bloody neighbour keeps parking his great hulking thing outside our house I may kill him. It blocks light and ruins my view. It is ugly. It is environmentally unfriendly. He is a single man living in London. Why, why why???

Sorry - I know I am prbably not making friends here. I'll get my coat.

No I live in the country, and drive with care and respect. I do not get any moare abuse than I did when I drove a sports car. That said, if I drove the middle of London, I would expect some abuse.

Ha ha starting a thread like this your asking for it

Get rid of it. Serious threat to your peace of mind & to the environment.

Oh no threat to my peace of mind thanks, and as regards to the environment, I have land and plant trees which balance my Carbon footprint.

oh carbon footprint my fanny. why do you need the great, hulking thing?

Planting trees to balance your footprint is questionnable. Even if it were possible it does not effect the fact that you have financially supported a company and therefore encouraged them to make more environmentally unfriendly cars. You may have added to social pressure for others to follow suit.

If you hit a child you are more likely to kill them.

If you park outsude your neighbou's terraced house you will block their light and cause them to hate you

Oh feck off, I will tell you why, I live very high up where I would otherwise get cut off in the middle of winter, I have horses and pull a trailor, and because I love it.

Although the tree comments were true they where a little glib, I love my 4 x 4 and have no problems sleeping at night thanks

Oh and I didnt financially support the company, its a company car! does that piss you off even more?

Oh good point dp is a heating engineer who fits energy eficient boilers, I think that justifies my decision to have a 4 x 4

reasons for buying my 4x4 - space and crash test results, bearing in mind the journeys i do and the ages of my children.
i will continue to need the space for a couple of years at least. i will then look for a smaller car but will still have crash test results as my key criterion for the decision.

good - its like saying "look at my BIT DICK"

bit dick?

"just acquired one"

did you nick it?

It was not an unsupported statement. The UK Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) has produced a study that showed that road deaths are on the increase as a result of the growing popularity of 4x4s. Amongst other things it showed that in a collision between a 4x4 and a small car, the occupants of the small car are 12 times more likely to be killed than if the collision was with another small car.

by pointing out something thats worse - is not an argument for the grossness that is 4x4s

Oh god, this is SO one of my major bugbears in life. Can feel a the Rant of the Century coming on but won't bore you all. Suffice to say that I live on the Cheshire plain and am sick to fecking death of the amount of 4x4s I see riding roughshod through the rough terrain . And as for the argument re: space...BUY AN ESTATE CAR OR A PEOPLE CARRIER! But they're not status symbols, are they now?!