Chelsea tractors

[Mungo_Jerry]

I have an X5 and it is, quite frankly, the shit - that's why I drive it. Call me Jeremy Clarkson but if that makes me a bad person so be it. Funnily enough my wife used to have a Clio and that had worse CO2 and MPG than the beast and drove like a piece of crap so we shopped it in.

 

[Common as Mook]

C

Big car?
Small penis.

So I'm told.

Ride a bike?
Smell like Germaine Greer's groin BO.

So I'm told.

 

[red star portslade]

I've got a small car and a small penis!!

Big car?
Small penis.

So I'm told.

 

[Scampi]

So according to this thread i should be driving a bigger car


Anyway enough of my tiddler, I think that perhaps the OP is getting at the practicalities of ownership. IMO many people who own these things would be much better off with a different vehicle. In Lewes and Brighton they just aren't needed and are bloody impractical They adversely effect other road users, are highly polluting and dangerous to pedestrians.

 

[Icy Gull]

No generalisation here then. Seriously, everyone driving a 4x4 is a twat and everyone else parks superbly and is a considerate driver .... So when I drive my 4 x 4 I drive like a fool yet I'm a nice guy when I drive either of the other cars FFS

No sure that I called anyone a twat and a big f*** off 4x4 does block my view and they are often driven by Mums who park badly. Don't take it so personally

 

[Bob!]

No need for them on the majority of roads. They also seem to be driven by the most arrogant and inconsiderate wankers.

My personal fight against them is to never give them way on the roads...

I'm in this gang as well.

Why do so many of the drivers of these vehicles think they can intimidate you into giving way to them?

 

[R. Slicker]

Try driving through the country lanes in Surrey. You constantly meet Ermentrude and Quentin's mummy coming the other way in her Mercedes 4 x 4 where she stops dead in the middle of the road because she has no idea of the width of her vehicle so you and several other motorists have to reverse to where it is wider so she can pass at 0.25 miles per hour.

 

[wellquickwoody]

We should also consider the extra Co2 emissions and pollution these things generate, after all, we do not own the earth, we are just borrowing it from our children.

LOL!

 

[wellquickwoody]

Just bought a car that does 18 mpg round town, I feel like a grown up at last!

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

maybe they are owned by country people just in lewes shopping etc ?

you'd like to think so , let's face it Lewes has changed , too many tree huggers and general snobs about these days

Ousedale flats is the real lewes

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

No need for them on the majority of roads. They also seem to be driven by the most arrogant and inconsiderate wankers.

My personal fight against them is to never give them way on the roads...

not far wrong there b0y ! and a small penis to boot

 

[Seagull on the wing]

They always seem to be driven by blonde haired haughty women with small heads wearing obligatory oversize sunglasses.

....on top of their head....why? have they suddenly sprouted eyes up there...

 

[Winker]

Big car?
Small penis.

So I'm told.

Or the bigger the car - the bigger the penis driving it!

 

[markw]

No need for them on the majority of roads. They also seem to be driven by the most arrogant and inconsiderate wankers.

My personal fight against them is to never give them way on the roads...

I would be very careful with that attitude, when I have had smaller or nice cars, people who don't give a f*** make you give way when its my right of way, normally when parked cars on their side of road. Now I have an old discovery, if someone does not give way when they should I carry on and they have a couple of choices, move over or get the side of their car smashed in.

 

[Albumen]

Or the bigger the car - the bigger the penis driving it!

Noooo they need the size to y'know drive to Tesco etc.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Lewes is the perfect storm for 4x4's. A pretty wealthy middle class who seem them as a status symbol and people who live in the countryside and actually need them to functions

 

[goldstone]

At least Lewes is a country town (and former market town) where you might expect to see a good number of 4WD vehicles.

Chelsea does not have that excuse.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Assuming that to be true, does that lead on to a wider argument about some people feeling that their car is a natural psychological extension of their personality?

Goodness, this could be a bit of a worry if it's more than just 'some people'. Where would it leave people who drive around in, for example, wondrously dirty cars covered in poo and algae?

 

[Nibble]

Let's face it whatever your defence for having a beast of a vehicle, unless you need regular access to off road locales, the only reason you have on eis because you can. It's selfish, it's helping ruin the planet and it's not very practical. People need to stop asking whether they can do something and start asking whetehr they should do something.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

of course that vehicle is popular on school runs, as you don't take any risks with your kids do you.

You do if you send them to a school where poor drivers drive huge vehicles up to the school gate.