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Starry Wisdom
in britain we use the term saboteurs.
SUVs make up more than 40% of new cars sold in the UK – while fully electric vehicles account for less than 2%
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Yes, you're the one advocating for them to be used on appropriate terrain only. Did you mean appropriate terrain other than when travelling about?
I don't think they merit that.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Sorry. I foolishly assumed you may have been following this thread.
Just a few posts before:
SUVs make up more than 40% of new cars sold in the UK – while fully electric vehicles account for less than 2%
My answer was that I couldn't tell you because there's too much variation in what people think. I'm no more omniscient than you are. You could tell me what you think.www.urban75.net
Oh but I have…
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hiraethified
streets
Sorry I have that poster on ignore which pretty much tells me your 'point' is well worth ignoring.
she's too wide to cycle past?
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
She’s an otherwise fit 80 year-old who has been forced to give up cycling thanks to the width of modern cars.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
You can affect to not know about that post, however it just highlights the disingenuous nature of many a post on this thread, seeing as you gave him penalty points for posting it.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Hmm... the Daily Mail famously supported that nice Mr Hitler, back when it must have been a "left wing racist" paper.
As Chris Brookmire once said, supporting Hitler was all in the past and the paper has since changed its position.... it's moved more right wing.
As Chris Brookmire once said, supporting Hitler was all in the past and the paper has since changed its position.... it's moved more right wing.
liquidindian
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I thought SUVs were getting big but they're more spacious inside than I thought.
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hiraethified
It's fucking ridiculous that cars are getting bigger and bigger when we're in an environmental crisis.
www.transportenvironment.org
Smaller cars can reduce demand for critical metals by almost a quarter – report - Transport & Environment
Cutting battery sizes, improving chemistries and reducing private car journeys can cut expected consumption 36-49%
www.transportenvironment.org
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HaveMyPassword123
I'd never seen inside a Jet2 cabin before, those seats look dreadful.
Then this morning I saw this, if I was going to Magaluf I think I'd rather drive:
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Hot on the tail of news that Volvo are ditching their estates and only selling SUVs in the UK is an announcement from them of a new model - an electric people carrier.
Despite this probably being very similar in size, weight and capacity to the 7-seat XC90 and EX90 SUVs, it will no doubt fail to attract much ire from anti-SUV folks because they're irrational.
Despite this probably being very similar in size, weight and capacity to the 7-seat XC90 and EX90 SUVs, it will no doubt fail to attract much ire from anti-SUV folks because they're irrational.
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HaveMyPassword123
Pretty sure no one thinks that, so carry on tilting at straw windmills or whatever.
More than 150 car models too big for regular UK parking spaces
Fears over safety as analysis by Which? shows ‘autobesity’ epidemic means cars getting wider and longer
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
More than 150 car models too big for regular UK parking spaces
Fears over safety as analysis by Which? shows ‘autobesity’ epidemic means cars getting wider and longerwww.theguardian.com
I once argued with some complete chump who demanded that every car park in the country be repainted to make room for his (imaginary) Bentley. When I pointed out that making spaces bigger would mean fewer parking spaces because of maths he got very angry. Imagine being angry with maths ffs.
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I note that the vast majority that don't fit are too long, not too wide. If only people would swap their lengthy saloons and estates for reasonably-sized SUVs there wouldn't be such a problem.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Everything is woke nowadays, even the fundamental physics of our universe
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Is it too simple a solution to suggest they pay for two spaces?More than 150 car models too big for regular UK parking spaces
Fears over safety as analysis by Which? shows ‘autobesity’ epidemic means cars getting wider and longer
Edited for an infant school spelling error (see quotes below).
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Would be amusing. But obviously still a waste of space.
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hiraethified
Apart from the excess pollution and additional resources needed to create and power needlessly heavy cars.
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Yes, needlessly heavy and long cars that don't fit in parking spaces, rather than lighter, reasonably sized SUVs which do.
Anyway the BMW i7 saloon in that study weigh 2700kg, far more than a Tesla S which only weighs 2250kg despite having a longer range. Neither are SUVs but one is needlessly heavy.
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A car that is too long for a parking space won't even fit in two spaces.
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No, cars should be getting smaller and lighter overall. And the trend is anything but that:
Average car weight climbs 100kg in 10 years with huge impact on emissions | Evo
Market trends for larger, heavier cars and SUVs are having a profound effect on the climate, according to Green NCAP’s findings
www.evo.co.uk
It's got so bad in the UK that "new guidance from The Institution of Structural Engineers has stated that car parks in the UK need to evolve to cope with bigger and heavier cars.."
Major organisation calls for changes to UK car parks to deal with weight of modern cars | RAC Drive
New guidance from The Institution of Structural Engineers has stated that car parks in the UK need to evolve to cope with bigger and heavier cars.
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