Drago
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I heard a radio ad for some Range Rover or other, and the vehicle in question was described as being suitable for off road adventuring in darkest Africa, and suitable for the "school run".
This got me thinking and Googling. Land Rover aren't alone in stating this in their advertising, with several manufacturers also mentioning their models suitability for the "school run". The Guardian fancy themselves as at the thrusting point of the spear of climate awareness and sustainable transport policy, yet that didn't stop their motoring pages from reviewing a Peugeot 3008 SUV late last year and even going as far as recommending the model for the school run in the headline.
In this day and age isn't about time manufacturers were stopped for promoting their congestion causing, danger producing, pollution belching products as being suitable for a "school run", which is surely the last place any right thinking society needs them to be? If we're ever to be safe as pedestrians or cyclists then we need a lot less of this sort of thing, not people using profit motivation to try and cause even more of it.
This got me thinking and Googling. Land Rover aren't alone in stating this in their advertising, with several manufacturers also mentioning their models suitability for the "school run". The Guardian fancy themselves as at the thrusting point of the spear of climate awareness and sustainable transport policy, yet that didn't stop their motoring pages from reviewing a Peugeot 3008 SUV late last year and even going as far as recommending the model for the school run in the headline.
In this day and age isn't about time manufacturers were stopped for promoting their congestion causing, danger producing, pollution belching products as being suitable for a "school run", which is surely the last place any right thinking society needs them to be? If we're ever to be safe as pedestrians or cyclists then we need a lot less of this sort of thing, not people using profit motivation to try and cause even more of it.