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Ugh, these are the worst. I'm sorry they invaded your homeland as well.
This shit needs to be made prohibitively expensive. Like 5x the tax of the average car.
Why UK?
Loads of insecure people, most of the ones I see are vanity purchases for people.
Even the majority of trades people are better off with a transit style van as its more weather and secure for tool/material storage while having a larger load area. Even landscapers do use vans in the UK, although not all annoyingly.
Sure, farmers might find a 4x4 pick up cheaper and more reliable while good off road than a defender style vehicle, but that's about the only group who benefit from it.
Even people that work at height such as those who work on lamp posts or power lines tend to have a specialized van or lorry with a lift built in than some shitty pick up.
Farmers don't even benefit from it, the good ol' tractor's better for duty.
My street is approximately large enough for one horse to walk through without stepping on very many orphans. That's the spec the roads here were built to, but now they've got fatso cars parked all throughout and you can barely ride a bike past my house.
I saw one last week in suburban London. It is fucking massive. I'm used to bigger cars on our roads but this monster dwarfed my hatchback and the other days. It could barely fit in the lane and was left hand drive so must be imported. It's absolutely insane for somebody to buy that and ride!
They should be massively taxed. They're environmentally damaging and are a hazard to other drivers.
Not surprising, the UK has the highest per-capita number of convertible owners. British car culture is weird and nobody really talks about it.
As an American, I apologize for this. However, where I live in NY a truck is basically required. My drive way is basically an ice luge, and if I don't put my truck in 4wd low I can't make it out to the road.
Europeans should not need these vehicles.
I'll accept 4WD as a requirement, but why does it need to be a large truck? Wouldn't an AWD car, like a Subaru or VW, work just as well?
uh oh!!
Are non-lesbians allowed to drive Subaru 4WD vehicles?
My truck has a AWD mode, and maybe it's different with other vehicles, but my truck will just slide out on the driveway if I'm not in 4wd low.