The reason behind the 4x4 SUV thing.....

[ComedyPilot]

...is so that when they are barrelling towards you on a singletrack country road, they don't need to slow down to pass, they just ride up onto the verge and drive round you.

Just another way for the selfish, boorish, beligerant idiots to try and justify their existence, (and lack of trouser equipment).

They have clearly evolved from the Nova-man that blighted our towns with their boom-boom laps of the 'circuit' to having the latest 4x4 and driving everywhere with a 'superior' view of the road.

 

[fossyant]

Had a run in ?

 

[TheDoctor]

Well, I can get a 'superior' view in the cinema - I just sit on the back of my seat!
Simples...

 

[ComedyPilot]

Had a run in ?

3 run ins on friday, all 20 something men in what looked like Mitsubishi L200's.

Saw them coming, and instead of timidly moving aside I held my position to slow them down (otherwise they'd have blased past about 50!!).

They then all mounted the grass verge and ploughed past??

On a similar note, I was out a few weeks ago and an idiot tried doing the same thing in a Corsa, and hit one of those soak-away cut outs in the verge, laugh, I almost wet myself.

Come on you idiots, slow down a bit, relax and enjoy the ride.

 

[very-near]

That will likely be because they are used to people jumping out of their way when they drive their tractors. L200's are classed as commercial vehicles. Unless you have a business, or tow something heavy, I struggle to see the point in owning one.

 

[ComedyPilot]

That will likely be because they are used to people jumping out of their way when they drive their tractors. L200's are classed as commercial vehicles. Unless you have a business, or tow something heavy, I struggle to see the point in owning one.

Round my way on any one of a number of 'new build' estates there are always a dozen or so households that seem to have the pre-requisite 4x4 on the drive, the garage full of bicycles (unused), the trampoline in the garden, the massive plasma screen TV in the living room (no nets - big invite to Billy Burglar). There was a phrase in the 70's called 'Keeping up with the Jones', It looks like society as a whole now sees that mantra as something to aim for, rather than being a statement of ridicule.

I maybe didn't explain properly in the OP, I would have yielded to them anyway, but have found if I cringe in the hedgerow they will zoom past with NO decelleration. I now take the stance of slowing them down to a safe speed before yielding, but always having an exit-stage-left strategy ready just in case.

 

[HLaB]

they just ride up onto the verge and drive round you.

That's unusual, I find that here their drivers usually scared to go 5mm off road encase they get dirty.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Seen one today,L200 type, gave me room but to close, to fast past the horse rider coming the other way and upset the horse.

 

[upsidedown]

Don't Nissan do one too? Equally hideous and unnecessary.

I don't understand what they are for? There's no space to carry anything as they only have that little square in the back.

Presumably a Defender can pull as much, depreciate less and not mark you out as a half-wit

 

[mm101]

Round my way on any one of a number of 'new build' estates there are always a dozen or so households that seem to have the pre-requisite 4x4 on the drive, the garage full of bicycles (unused), the trampoline in the garden, the massive plasma screen TV in the living room (no nets - big invite to Billy Burglar). There was a phrase in the 70's called 'Keeping up with the Jones', It looks like society as a whole now sees that mantra as something to aim for, rather than being a statement of ridicule.

Is there nothing more ghastly than one of those big plasma TVs? Makes the sitting room look like a bloody pub. 4x4 look obnoxious and brash in a suburban setting. When did we become a nation of tacky?

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

Is there nothing more ghastly than one of those big plasma TVs? Makes the sitting room look like a bloody pub. 4x4 look obnoxious and brash in a suburban setting. When did we become a nation of tacky?

When we let people have 125% mortgages and other debts they couldn't possibly manage in order for them to keep up with them next door?

 

[mm101]

When we let people have 125% mortgages and other debts they couldn't possibly manage in order for them to keep up with them next door?

They should set next door the example of being modestly understated

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

They should set next door the example of being modestly understated

Absolutely. But we can't ave er there showin off, not after what she said about r Reet and the way their Darren goes on and all. We need to put em in their place.

 

[Cranky]

Some of those Mitsubishi things are called a Warrior.

When I see one, I often look at the driver and think: "He/she thinks they're a warrior".

I also remember when lots of car brands had a model called Executive.

It's all rather sad.

 

[very-near]

Some of those Mitsubishi things are called a Warrior.

When I see one, I often look at the driver and think: "He/she thinks they're a warrior".

I also remember when lots of car brands had a model called Executive.

It's all rather sad.

Erm, it's the car which is called the warrior, not the driver.

Did the same logic apply to the buyers of the 'Probe'