Why are so many people driving around in great big 4x4 and off road vehicles in town ?
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i really try not to go off road but having a parking meter is the only way I can aim and besides it's not my fault my depth perception is off
Cause thats what he bought me,but I do go off road!
here where I live we drive these big 4X4 trucks to get in and outa the woods
There is alot of lumber operations in this area
We also get alot of snow so a 4X4 is needed often
I think it's just a status symbol. It's kind of a waste if you're not going to use your vehicle off road or for what it's really designed for.
Because it's trendy
It is necessary to have one these days in order to pick up/drop off children and go shopping.
Its just the fashion at the moment
I saw a guy with a Hummer going down the road at five miles an hour as there was this pothole and he didn't want to wreck his car.
Huh?
As unfortunately there is alot of selfish, deluded, consumer obsessed c***s in the world with too much money and not enough class!
They think they are big and bad in a big truck
WHOA hang on it is not only rednecks, which is a racial slur,
MEMO TO SELF TO REPORT!
ALL kinds of people ride around TOWN in them!
THEY usually have BIG families and need MORE space.SOME just like to show off their $$$ or MANHOOD!
Does this question actually have a purpose or did you JUST WAKE up and notice something that has been going on for several years!
And A reason that gas is being guzzled and the prices jacked up!
PEOPLE do not get it!
they think it makes them more safe/secure, when actually the opposite is true, since the flood of SUVs on the road the amount of traffic related deaths have increased, both for the cars these soccer moms run over, and also for the soccer moms who tend to roll their SUVs over a lot.
There have also been studies to show that many SUV drivers tend to be more antisocial and selfish, putting their own safety above the others around them.
Note, 9 times out of 10 if you see someone doing something stupid in a car. 12 point k-truns. 10 minute parrallell parking jobs. merging without looking. etc. they are usually soccer moms on cell-phones in SUVs. they are the very people that they are trying to protect themselves from by driving these bohemouths.
and people think that if they have an SUV they look like sporty independent mothers. instead of soccer moms trapped in minivans. and their husbands can drive them too. this will all change within a few years. socially trends always respond ten-fold to things that flood the market. so in a few years SUV moms will be looked down on much more than minivan moms ever were. not to mention the gas prices. i hope it goes to 5-10 dollars a gallon, then people will finally start making sensible decisions. think globally act locally.
Mini vans are passe.
Do you see what they are doing when they are not in town?
Look for the mud.
I agree, I think it has to do with fashion and the specific culture of the area. While living in Texas, I noticed that there were huge car lots with thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of 4x4s. They were the only style available. In the south, I guess they're considered "fashionable."
Also, while in New Orleans, several people (on separate occassions) asked me why so many New Yorkers drove Hummers (I'm originally from New York). I was genuinely stumped. My friends from New Orleans had concluded that the reason why so many New Yorkers drove around in Hummers was because NY must have alot of mountains. I'm guessing that in New York, Hummers are considered "fashionable."
Because they're dimwits who believe everything they see in 4x4-manufacturers' ads on the telly and in the trendy Motoring mags and supplements. They also probably don't know what to do with all that salary dosh flooding monthly into their bank accounts, matching their lack of sense. All off-road vehicles should be banned on-road, especially in this tight little island of Britain.
4x4=16 that's all I know lol
Society status symbolism
Like most silly things humans do.they are a bunch of lemmings and will do or say what is popular at the time. Their neighbor gets an SUV or 4X4 and now theynhave to have one. Most humans are incapable of independent thinking and thusly you have soccer moms tooling around in big SUV's taking the kids to the movies. Their excuse of course is if the weather gets bad they can go.here's a clue people.if the weather is THAT bad.stay home!!!!!!
i own a shogun 3ltr the reason i bought it was because i wanted to and its fun to drive goes like hell so why not i pay road tax insurance etc its still a free country the UK i mean isn't it we are allowed to choose for our selves what we drive what we say etc
Most of them in London are only showing off. They don't usually have enough kids to fill them for the school trip so it's one car one kid and ONE HELL OF A JAM! Because they can afford to buy and run them, they can afford the congestion and parking charges too, but you can put your life on it that 90% of them don't know where the nearest bit of country actually IS let alone go 'off road'. "OFF ROAD?" I hear them scream. "WHY, SURELY THAT WOULD MEAN GETTING THEM DIRTY.."
See what I mean. If they were to take them off road, the likes of US wouldn't be able to ADMIRE them, would we.
because they have to make up for their short commings.
bcus it is awsome
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