SUVs make up more than 40% of new cars sold in the UK – while fully electric vehicles account for less than 2%

[maomao]

I'm don't think I'm even sure what an SUV is then. I thought they were huge things. Is this just a rebranding of people movers?

 

[platinumsage]

Was never a fan, but then came across the RSQ8 by Lumma and have changed my mind. The MPG of around 12-15 is a bit hmm, but even Swampy would clamour to get behind the wheel of this bad boy...

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That's a hatchback. There's a trend these days for adding 15mm of ride height, some black plastic on the wheel arches and calling it an SUV. It's wrong and should stop.

 

[Marty1]

I'm don't think I'm even sure what an SUV is then. I thought they were huge things. Is this just a rebranding of people movers?

Sports Utility Vehicle.

 

[editor]

Lamborghini Urus is a serious piece of kit.

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Prices start at £180,000

I’ve only seen two on the road up here but expect they’re two a penny down that London.

So now you want to turn it into a luxury car porn thread

 

[maomao]

Sports Utility Vehicle.

Haven't you got dogs to fuck?

 

[editor]

Haven't you got dogs to fuck?

And this kind of weird cross-thread beef is not really acceptable either

 

[nogojones]

Lamborghini Urus is a serious piece of kit.

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Prices start at £180,000

I’ve only seen two on the road up here but expect they’re two a penny down that London.

I don't know if its got enough boot space to be that useful. I supose I could get the servants to bring the luggage separately

 

[SpookyFrank]

Was never a fan, but then came across the RSQ8 by Lumma and have changed my mind. The MPG of around 12-15 is a bit hmm, but even Swampy would clamour to get behind the wheel of this bad boy...

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I like how they've blacked out the Audi badge so nobody will know you're a wanker. Unless of course they can see any other part of the car.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Was never a fan, but then came across the RSQ8 by Lumma and have changed my mind. The MPG of around 12-15 is a bit hmm, but even Swampy would clamour to get behind the wheel of this bad boy...

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A four door as well.

When I win the lottery the one below is mine:

 

[Sasaferrato]

Haven't you got dogs to fuck?

Is that necessary?

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'm don't think I'm even sure what an SUV is then. I thought they were huge things. Is this just a rebranding of people movers?

Sports Utility Vehicle. Presumably because they're mostly used to drop little Tyler and Sushi off at their tennis lessons.

 

[Sprocket.]

It would be a better world if people just let other people get on with their choice of transport that they are happy with.

 

[editor]

It would be a better world if people just let other people get on with their choice of transport that they are happy with.

You sound like the kind of person who thinks it would be better if people could still smoke indoors and let everyone else suffer the consequences.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Lamborghini Urus is a serious piece of kit.

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Prices start at £180,000

I’ve only seen two on the road up here but expect they’re two a penny down that London.

It's just a Posrche Cayenne. Which is just a Volkswagen Touareg. Which is almost exactly a quarter of the price.

 

[maomao]

Sports Utility Vehicle. Presumably because they're mostly used to drop little Tyler and Sushi off at their tennis lessons.

I know what it flipping stands for but when I first heard the term 15-20 years ago it seemed to mean pick up truck type things. These just look like Galaxies with go faster stripes.

 

[Sprocket.]

You sound like the kind of person who thinks it would be better if people could still smoke indoors and let everyone else suffer the consequences.

Not at all. I was an avid cyclist until illness stopped that but I got fed up of being called a pariah for doing that. These are all just topics that rile people from different parts of the spectrum. It’s the entire attitude towards other people that gets me.

 

[SpookyFrank]

It would be a better world if people just let other people get on with their choice of transport that they are happy with.

I'd be happiest driving a wheat thresher up and down Dorking high street.

 

[SpookyFrank]

It would be a better world if people just let other people get on with their choice of transport that they are happy with.

We'll all be in canoes like it or not if people don't stop burning so much fucking petrol.

 

[Sprocket.]

I'd be happiest driving a wheat thresher up and down Dorking high street.

Would it be horse-drawn?

 

[Sprocket.]

I’ve done.

 

[Marty1]

Not at all. I was an avid cyclist until illness stopped that but I got fed up of being called a pariah for doing that. These are all just topics that rile people from different parts of the spectrum. It’s the entire attitude towards other people that gets me.

I saw a bloke on a mountain bike the other day that had some sort of petrol motor attached - was going a decent speed along the road as he passed with a trail of blue smoke behind him. Bizarre.

 

[Sprocket.]

My current mode of personal transport btw.

 

[platinumsage]

Would it be horse-drawn?

A horse produces 18kg methane a year. It's a 30x more potent greenhouse gas so equates to 540kg of Co2 annually. A SUV might make 130g/Km, giving 1300kg of CO2 annually for the average mileage.

Two horses is slightly better than an SUV, but if you need four horses to pull your wagon then a SUV is obviously the better choice.

 

[Marty1]

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My current mode of personal transport btw.

Cool enough tho is it classified as an SUV?

 

[platinumsage]

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My current mode of personal transport btw.

The CO2 figures for those 1.3 engines are pretty shocking by today’s standards, and higher than many new large SUVs

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

This whole thread exists to give editor plausible deny-ability when he claims this is not really his new motor...

 

[Roadkill]

I didn't attempt to link mental health issues with anything. My post was prompted by Roadkill attempting to exclude people "actively trying to harm themselves or doing something very stupid" from the causality statistics. Both road and rail deaths involve these things and such deaths shouldn't be treated differently.

Likewise I wasn't trying to "prove that railways are somehow worse than SUVs", simply that if you're genuinely concerned with reducing such deaths then there are for more low-hanging fruit in the area of railway transport than there is in private vehicle shape. [emphasis added]

That is complete and utter bollocks. The figures a couple of pages back go to show that the number of deaths on the roads in 2018 (1,784) was more than five times the number on the railways even if you include suicides. If you don't it's more than forty times, and that still includes people doing daft things at level crossings, despite lights, barriers and the rest of it.

What you are effectively arguing here is that we should ignore hundreds of preventable deaths on the roads each year and spend untold millions of pounds on motion sensors, cameras and the rest of it to prevent - probably - a couple of dozen deaths on the railway. Are you for real?!

 

[JimW]

A horse produces 18kg methane a year. It's a 30x more potent greenhouse gas so equates to 540kg of Co2 annually. A SUV might make 130g/Km, giving 1300kg of CO2 annually for the average mileage.

Two horses is slightly better than an SUV, but if you need four horses to pull your wagon then a SUV is obviously the better choice.

That's because you'be not factored in the manufacture and supply chain on the one hand versus the carbon footprint of two horses fucking on the other. Also easier and greener to dispose of the gee gees and even tasty if you're French.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I'm don't think I'm even sure what an SUV is then. I thought they were huge things. Is this just a rebranding of people movers?

I think this is the problem that a lot of people are having in this thread.

SUV has just become a catch all term for any tall car with a big boot and the vaguest of “off road” styling.

A V8 Range Rover really is in a different league to a QashQai...

 

[platinumsage]

That is complete and utter bollocks. The figures a couple of pages back go to show that the number of deaths on the roads in 2018 (1,784) was more than five times the number on the railways even if you include suicides. If you don't it's more than forty times, and that still includes people doing daft things at level crossings, despite lights, barriers and the rest of it.

What you are effectively arguing here is that we should ignore hundreds of preventable deaths on the roads each year and spend untold millions of pounds on motion sensors, cameras and the rest of it to prevent - probably - a couple of dozen deaths on the railway. Are you for real?!

This isnt about road deaths in general though, it’s about road deaths caused by a specific shape of car.

Far easier to save lives on the railway than save lives by banning adverts for particular shaped cars.