More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space
More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space
Campaign network calls on government to prioritise smaller cars and introduce higher charges for SUV owners
I really don’t get why people like to buy such huge gas guzzlers and somehow those are the people I hear complain about gas prices the most
We should really just have EU law that over a certain size requires a new license that isn’t automatically given to people that have one now.
I reckon doing what Norway does and just tax them by the weight of the vehicle to to discourage people buying them while alps making those that do pay for the extra wear and tear in the roads they cause.
Road damage goes up proportionally to the 4th power of vehicle weight: double the weight, 16 times the damage. Vehicle tax should include that as a component. That also indicates that we massively subsidise the use of huge lorries to transport goods.
It's not just ICE cars that are huge. Even new EVs tend to be unnecessarily large SUVs or Sedans.
Very much, I drove an ID.4 as a company car for 6 months and it was such a horrible experience. Huge and just to move 1 55kg person c'mon man.
Also drove a Tesla M3 after that and was already much better, low on the floor and felt much safer and good to drive. Would love to have an electric version of my Toyota Yaris (hybrid), its a great size for me.
Oh even better? Cheaper public transport so I don't have to take the car to save money!!
Its green and eco-friendly so i can waste as much of that extra energy as i want seems to be the attitude people have. We've made emissions be the spotlight of our energy crisis when the total amount of energy we use is still important, potentially even more important than just reducing emissions alone.
I really don’t get why people like to buy such huge gas guzzlers
As a dumbass American who's been considering that for forty years, let me try to help: The short answer is, very tiny pee-pees.
I wish I had a better answer, but that's honestly the majority reason. They do bang on about "safety" a lot, but when that's scientifically proven to be false they still say it so - back to item number 1.
Over here, the enormous gas-guzzlers eventually weren't enough so they had to super-size even them. Now we have these gargantuan death behemoths everywhere for absolutely no reason (well, for one reason).
Good luck, given all the car lobbying going on here...
Its so sad, here in the Netherlands if public transport was just cheaper it'd already be able to replace almost all my commuting. But I pay less for my car driving somewhere AND back than a 1 way train ticket.
I point this out when people complain about the size of roads and parking spaces. You bought a car that big, what did you expect, the roads to magically grow?
Cries in North American, where suburban streets are wider than freeway lanes
Cars seem to, though. Somehow, every new model for some reason seems to be slightly larger than the last.
"what? This sidewalk or bike lane fit perfectly"
Vehicle tax should be doubled for any such monstrosity. They also block visibility on the roads and are a hazard to cyclists and pedestrians.
I live in Dublin (NOT UK but there are many similarities) and this drives me fucking crazy. We have teensy-weensy little roads all through the city. they have made it so there's parking on both sides of these little roads, and they are two-way streets. This is just possible for two smaller cars, like a civic or a yaris to squeeze by one another.
enter the one person in a range rover or BMW suv and everybody's gotta fucking wait for these hulking ICE powered shit boxes to clear the road.
Forget parking at shopping centres with them around as well. They will stick out in the front or back, which takes up two spots, of course. Full sized American pick up trucks have started to show up, also, not a blemish in the flatbed.
The road taxes are based on weight, so they do pay significantly more than I will with my 1.4l engine, but not enough for them to not care that they cant see things that are in front of them, that they'd kill every occupant of a normal sized care they hit (its a big part of why they report to like owning them, for "safety" read: killing a family of 4 in a corolla with my truck that I use to drive to work alone)
I do not like it!
I hate seeing shitty trends in the US being exported
That's a good thing. If they can't find a parking spot, thats a good thing.
Cars are getting fat, expensive and just boring, I'll stick with my old banger
How big are these things? My dad owns an old landrover defender (the boxy one) and that thing fits just fine into every space and lane. (He also lives in the countryside and has to use an unpaved road just to leave his house)