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Plastic Paddy
Especially Austrian women in SUVs.
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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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
No problem.
Athos
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Maybe the SUV has lower emissions than a Corsa.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Maybe you'd have lower emissions if you shut up.
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
That sounds like a classic Clarksonism to be fair.
Athos
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Maybe you're an imbecile. Actually, no 'maybe' about it.
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Plastic Paddy
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Yes but have you ever met other people? They're dicks
And every other road user is a complete moron.
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
You're absolutely right and so for balance I shall mention in passing the US studies showing some interesting though not entirely surprising characteristics of male SUV drivers in that country.
Hmmm... get your point but I’d say the Nissan is a cross over (ordinary 2wd on stilts) rather than a genuine SUV - merely for the fact that it’s front wheel drive. I may be wrong but I thought a SUV had 4wd capability.
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Plastic Paddy
Nope. If that were the case a BMW X5 is not an SUV.
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hiraethified
It's a lot bigger in every dimension compared to what passed for a 'perfectly normal family car' 15 years ago.
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hiraethified
Took a walk down my (very busy) road and I'd estimate one in three cars that I passed were what would be termed a SUV. And all but one had a single driver at the wheel, all doing their bit to make my town even more fucking polluted.
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Plastic Paddy
Some are, and some are RWD.X5’s are 4wd tho? Or so I thought
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Annoys the fuck out of me that does. If you wait in a car and it’s hot just get out and go sit in the shade.
The gym/pool I go to is in the grounds of a posh school and it has hockey and tennis courts and football pitches that are also open to local clubs as well as the school. A number of times have seen one those ocean liner sized Volvo SUVs (always black, do they even do them in other colours??) sat outside with a mum watching TV with the engine running, I go in and get changed, swim for 30 minutes, shower and get dressed again and leave and the fucking thing is still there, ticking over so the TV can be watched. Makes me want to lob a brick through its window.
The gf’s Santa Fe is FWD for normal road driving but 4WD can be activated by the push of a button. If it didn’t have the 4WD capability then it shouldn’t be classed as a SUV imo.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Well this is quite the problem isn't it? There's no generally accepted definition of SUV so dickheads like those who wrote the article in the OP referring to "SUV's" is quite meaningless.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Sports Utility Vehicle. Doesn’t actually mean anything. A car that facilitates your sport? My estate is pretty fucking handy if your sport of choice is hare coursing, seeing as it often has a Lurcher in the boot, but never gets called an SUV.
BristolEcho
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Is it really cross thread beef when it comes to Marty1?
We always had MPV's growing up. Previa, galaxy, Espace or whatever it was called. Are these judged the same?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
No. And they're mostly larger and more polluting than midsize SUVs but you won't find the likes of SpookyFrank or others getting their knickers in a twist over them because they're not considered "posh" ... or something.
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hiraethified
I can't be arsed to nitpick over what a SUV is, but it sure strikes me as fucking stupid to have cars getting bigger and wider (and therefore, less inefficient and spewing out more fumes compared to a smaller, directly comparable car) when we're facing a climate catastrophe.
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Wide load: most-popular car models increase in width by 17 per cent
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ska invita
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Oxford Dictionary says SUVs are big fugly oversized petrol guzzling cars driven by prats with a new level of self-superiority to add to their collection
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
They're wider because of safety regulations. There are better ways to cut CO2 than rolling back vehicle safety.
Cid
Proper break this time
I'm not sure it is tbh... not for family cars of comparable function/capacity. That was the era of the people carrier, stuff like this:
And I can't imagine there is any car less aerodynamic than the Nissan Cube:
n.b Those may be 7 seater examples, dunno. But there were plenty of 5 seat things on those lines.
SpookyFrank
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Most SUVs seem to be driven by blokes who look like their ideal sport would be darts. Even the most modest hatchback has boot space for several sets of darts and probably even a board as well.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Cars are bigger because the crumple zones are no longer the occupants knees
The idea we should go back to the death traps of yesteryear is ridiculous.
Once again, the problem is not a particular type of car. The problem is how, and where private cars are used.
The idea we should go back to the death traps of yesteryear is ridiculous.
Once again, the problem is not a particular type of car. The problem is how, and where private cars are used.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
At least we've arrived at 'big SUV's are more polluting than small cars'.
It's still not necessarily true but progress had been made!
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