[QUOTE=dreamer,Jan 15 2010, 02:39 PM] Ok so facts:

Safety: Yes you will probably be worse off if a 4x4 doing 30mph hits you compared to an estate car because it weighs more and the bonnets used to be higher (from a brief google there seems to be a lot of work going on there to make them more pedestrian friendly).

 

Ok fair enough! I just think "people" (as in Joe Public) don't know the facts and make massive judgements based on media reporting which is generally speaking inaccurate.

I still think the width argument is tenuous though

 

Two 4x4s try to pass each other on a narrow street.

Two Estate cars try to pass each other on a narrow street.

The Estate cars have roughly a foot more space to do so.

 

Of course, it's just in the 2 years I've been driving a 4x4 I've never seen it cause an issue. The 4x4's can more easily mount the pavement anyway and avoid each other (jk!!)

 

If they mount the pavement, hundreds of pedestrians will be killed

 

And the pavement could get pregnant.

 

Two birds with one stone then

 

Of course, preganancy is the largest cause of pollution, so 4x4s are even worse in that regard...

 

And we all know the old joke about what you get when you cross a pavement with a 4x4.

 

Some people don't like 4x4s.