I couldn’t find Paris bans SUV thread but anyroad -
https://www.change.org/p/ban-4x4s-and-other-heavy-cars-from-urban-centres
https://www.change.org/p/ban-4x4s-and-other-heavy-cars-from-urban-centres
Flawed petition and does nothing to tackle the real issue, poor driving and poor vehicle choice.
I won't be signing, despite finding the profligate 'status symbol' ownership of the big 4x4s abhorrent and offensive. There are various genuine reasons for owning a 4x4 but the common reason of advertising one's wealth, success, presence or perceived importance is not one of them!
While I largely agree with your point, surely poor vehicle choice is what it's about...? I'm not sure of any legit reason for driving some three ton, 15mpg monstrousity into an urban centre where its size and mass presents even more of a danger to its efficiency and the safety of other road users...
All that said, these crass icons of conspicuous consumption seem to have proliferated over a similar period to the availability of cheap debt and the other shallow displays of pseudo-wealth this has brought. I suspect given their running costs and appalling depreciation, natural selection inside the new-normal of sensible interest rates and a higher cost of living should righteously hammer the nails into their much-deserved coffin in time.
In english please. Don't get a feckin big car because. My sister has one 'beause'. 1 kid, and a dog they move occasionally.
No legitimate reason to drive your enormous knobhead chariot in the city. Soon the plebs won't be able to afford them in any case 👍
PCP - so they all have them !