SUV rant

[Red vee]

I had a similar experience but the outcome was worse. I got knocked off my bike and she disputed liability claiming I was on a one-way street going the wrong way,no lights, refelctive clothing etc straw clutching, then tried to claim I damaged the front of her car when I hit the side. Took nine months for her to see sense and I got over ?2k for my troubles.

[Rude Boy]

mart I've always thought you come across as the kind of guy who takes the bus.

[Peter]

Why pick on 4x4? What about so-called people carriers, championed by the environ-mentallists? They have just as big a footprint as most 4x4, similar performance figures (pollution) to most of the soft-roaders, and of course, never actually "carry people".

Pwehaps those who complain 4x4 s never go off road should also petition for the banning of people carriers unless they have 6 people in them. Just to prove its not range rover envy, you understand!

[mart]

That's right Rudey, all of us tree-huggers use public transport.

Mart

[stripeysydney]

One of the kids in our close is called Joshua, you could'nt imagine a more rat-faced jug-eared pikey little shit if you tried, and his mother definitely has'nt got a SUV, working in the local Asda part-time, she probably thinks that SUV is an actual brand of car and not an acronym.

[Fred]

Bloody cyclists, threatening all us poor SUV owners lives. We're under attack!

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[superior]

Fucking good point about cyclists - I am sick to the back teeth of cyclists using pedestrian crossings (its so fucking annoying having to stop at a red light just so someone can cross the road on their bicycle), cycling on the pavement and totally ignoring traffic signals when it suits them especially red lights.

Cyclists are either road users like the rest of us or they arent - they cant be one when it suits them and then another when it doesnt. If they want to use the roads then, at the very least, they should obey the rules we all have to obey day in, day out - if I drive through a red light I get in the shit and quite rightly too but if a cyclist does it the cops dont bat an eyelid as they are seen as "pedestrians". If they are pedestrians they stay off the roads.

Phil

[mark cremona]

Im rather partial to my SUV, I just bought a Fuck Off Dodge Ram SLT Quad Cab with the Fuck Off Cummins 5.6 litre oiler and it kicks the shit out of Rangeys and those piss ant jap rice burners. it quite fast too for a yank tub.

[Mad Burt]

i do feel pretty bad in my discovery 3 when ive mowed down a cyclist but the the good thing is the bike does look far better under my wheels than with the lycra wearing eco foolish anti poluting chap puffin and pantin on it. word of warning to all cyclist though. NEVER chase after a bloke in a 4X4 on your bike. simple maths tells you that you can NEVER win

[Officer Dibble]

"These cars are known to be significantly more dangerous than other cars. They also spew out double the CO2. In my eyes, only the greediest, most selfish type of people would want to drive one of these things, knowing the harm they cause."

This is yet more Guardian reading middleclass cobblers. Being anti-SUV is a recent addition to the hand wringing classes? box of tricks. It has only recently appeared (last few years) in ?The Little Red Book of Middleclass Ponciness'. Once something is written into the Little Red Book, then it becomes received middleclass wisdom, and every Guardian reading member of the middles classes will then espouse it with all the irrational, wild eyed, zealotry of a mad mullah.

I've had a few Range Rovers and Jeeps. They're good fun, interesting to drive, even on everyday roads. You experience a serene sense of wellbeing sat up there, looking down on all the boring people in their VW polo's and Honda Accords. You experience a sense of invincibility (illusory of course), a feeling that whatever the conditions and obstacles you may encounter you will just brush them off, ride over them or through them. Yep, they're pretty cool. Why do you think celebs love ?em? ? ?cause they?re cool, of course.

SUV drivers selfish? Depends how you look at it - if they use twice as much juice, they pay twice as much tax, which our Gordon can then fritter away on whatever undeserving cause he favours at the time. But should they abstain even if they can afford it? I?m aware of the greenhouse situation, but I say no. First of all because no on else will in other countries. Also, we are each only on this earth for a limited time, so my philosophy is make the most of it and indulge yourself to the full. If it feels good, do it while the going is good.

If ordinary (non-poncy) geezers don't make a stand against this anti SUV bollocks, it will be sports cars and executive saloons next. The middleclass fuckers won't be satisfied till be are all driving beige Nissan Micras with all the verve and brio of a neutered knob sack. T? fuck wiv ?em. I say!

I reckon better candidates for a motoring rant would be woman drivers - like the one that knocked strictly?s sister off her bike. Generally speaking, they all drive at a traffic snarling 30 MPH in Vauxhall Corsas and such like, while being totally oblivious to what is going on around them. Jeez, I was just driving down the road the other day, when suddenly the car in front of me (a Ford Fiesta) rapidly slowed down and stopped dead ? in the middle of the road. Well, this was odd, I couldn?t work out what was going on, and so I gingerly pulled out to ease past, half afraid that I might see a dog or, God forbid, a child under the wheels of the Fiesta. But no. As I drew level with the driver I noted that it was a woman with a mobile phone clapped to her ear! She?d? only stopped dead in the middle of the friggin' main road to take a phone call! If I hadn?t been on the case I would have gone slap bang into the back of her!


Officer Dibble