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 also enjoy winding down my window as I pass someone driving one,applying my hand to forehead,making a vigorous pumping action and sneering 'You wanker'

Right night night ladies off to bed

Moondog.... any marks on feeby freelander in the morning, Ill kick your head in x

surely all that activity's a bit dangerous while driving, moondog?

I slow down.

lol at moondog! you should visit my children's school on monday morning - you could roam up and down outside vandalising all the (illegally parked) 4x4's that the mummy's have driven their children to school in (from their homes 0.5 miles down the road)!!

also please feel free to make gestures as i do feel a bit glum on a monday morning and could do with a giggle..

Deep, I've just looked up the current W? board, and can't see any CEOs in there. Am very puzzled - there aren't many people on the W? board anyway and certainly none of them are the heads of the Big Four high street banks or major supermarkets or anything!

Do you mean the member's council? Anyone with a subscription can stand for that, doesn't mean you run the place.

NHBC is deffo NOT independent of the industry, btw.

Which? is independent - I don't work there any more so have no particular brief for them but it winds me up when someone makes a careless allegation about an organisation that I value. They don't have any shareholders or owners or big banks to answer to. They have very thorough processes and cross-checking to make sure what they do and what they say is scrupulously fair. They are only human so occasionally small mistakes will be made, but one thing they really are is independent.

edam stop being sensible this instant.

I've noticed you don't tend to be let out at junctions much and also I'm rarely acknowledged when I give way to others as a matter of courtesy - but thats probably because I'm a woman driving a top of the range 4 x4

Custy, someone's dissed my work buddies! Grrr. Hate it when someone just casts ludicrous aspersions with no evidence. I happen to know that bloody organisation and the one thing it is is inde-bloody-pendent.

and I don't know what she's on about with her dark hints of court cases, you can look up the Which? board on the sodding internet.

I've got a big red van!

Buit I never drive it because I mighjt ^pollute and drive over peppeles

edam have a taste of my honey blodka.

hey rhubarb, is this you?

The issue for me is that other drivers of large vehicles usually adopt a defensive driving style - buses, vans etc. But many 4x4 drivers act as though they are in a normal sized car, barging through gaps that are too small.

Of course any individual driver can protest "But I don't do that", but, in my experience only of course, many don't drive considerately enough.

And the knowledge that they drive hazardously and in a car that's even more of a lethal weapon than normal is just enough to irritate the life out of me. I just get the feeling that the recklessness is encouraged because they know that if there is a crash "I'm alright Jack".

But I do live in a wealthy ,congested, urban place, and 4x4s are definitely surplus to requirements, other than to protect ones own little darlings at the expense of others.

Just popped in to tell artichoketagine that actually the Volvo XC90 scores 2 on pedestrian safety (all cars graded 1-3) which is in line with most family cars and a good deal better than many.

So you can't generalise, but people do for their own reasons I suppose.

Ah just read rest of thread and see that Edam has already mentioned that..

If it's the size issue, why are 4x4s singled out? People carriers are bigger.

I think it's just another example of inverted snobbery for most people.

Surely it doesn't matter how good a driver you are, as a 4x4 driver you can still be involved in damaging accidents, even if they aren't your fault?

I try to run over peopmes and score points, we have a sciore chart

50 for old ^peoplmes

we do as well teenagers get most points with a " get off the fucking road" then old people for doddering

teens 3 points
old peeps 2

So who else has a score chart then?