For all us 4x4 drivers.....

[Cornflakemum]

You all poked fun

You had your laughs

You quoted fuel consumption graphs

The papers ensured

We all were mocked

With vitriol that left us shocked

You scratched our cars

You hurled abuse

With swearing sometimes quite profuse

You cut us up

You pushed us out

Two fingers and an angry shout

Such hatred

Never felt before

Until I drove a Four-by-Four

But suddenly you?re not so snide

?Can little Johnny have a ride??

?My car is stuck?

?My wheels just spin?

?OMG, we?re all snowed in?

To school, to work

Without a fuss

I?m suddenly the minibus

The neighbour?s friend.

(Although you sniffed,

You nonetheless took up the lift)

The snow will go

The ice will melt

But will the gratitude be felt?

When weather is no more a factor

Remember your friend

The Chelsea Tractor.

I have no problems with farmers etc having a proper 4x4 with sheep and dogs in the back etc.

It's just the numskulls in "Sports Utility Vehicles" in the home counties (and other well-known wilderness areas) that I find unpalateable.

Insurance figures show that you are 25 percent more likely to be in an accident in
a 4x4 and twice as likely to roll over on the motorway.

Crash tests and accident figures show that tall, heavy 4x4s are more lethal in collisions with smaller cars, cyclists and pedestrians.

'It's just the numskulls in "Sports Utility Vehicles" in the home counties (and other well-known wilderness areas) that I find unpalateable.
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Although I cannot judge as I am not evensure i've ever been to the home counties, that did make me laugh.

We're in S E Wales; far from wilderness but bloody dodgy roads still, and a hobby means time on farms down in Somerset. It'slong and thin as well rather than tallwhich I think does helpw ith stability.

My 4x4 went back last Spring, as I no longer needed to be taking kids to school.

Boy, do I wish I'd still got it!!!

That's hilarious, Cornflakemum.
Our trusty Honda CR-V has been invaluable this last week.

The problem I have with 4X4 cars is that they don't have a reverse gear, so every single day when I'm driving down twisty lanes a 4X4, usually driven by a blonde with sunglasses on her head and a Jack Wills stripy shirt on, drives around the bends on the wrong side of the road, stops dead in the middle of the road and waits impatiently while I reverse round a blind bend, destroying my paintwork on the hedges because it doesn't seem to occur to them that maybe they should either shift their fat arses over to their own side or reverse.

F'ing pillocks.