SUVs

fancythat

Another thread that involves wealth, that has gone pear shaped.

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Cabbie21, you might like a Jeep Renegade. It's described as a small SUV but it's really just a 5-seater hatchback but a few centimetres higher off the ground and thus easier to get in and out of.

Do you not have a boot room Allira?

I don't live in a posh town but there are loads of SUVs

LauraNorderr

People who live in, or rather just outside ‘posh’ towns have buckles on their green wellies.

I've bought Hunters for decades because they are very comfortable to walk in. Those bl**dy buckles are useless decoration, no good actually putting the (equally useless) strap through them because it immediately comes undone again but the buckles are guaranteed to get things caught up on them in moments of stress, things like haynets and lead ropes

For those of you stressing the 'safety' of SUVs just a reminder that with their higher centre of gravity they are more susceptible to roll over in the case of an accident or manoeuvring at speed.

LauraNorderr

Do you not have a boot room Allira?

Only in the stables 🏇

I wouldn’t call Range Rovers, the big BMWs, Audis, Mercedes or Porches SUVs aren’t they just 4WD cars 🤷‍♀️

So by “posh” I guess the poster means affluent.

Scribbles

Cabbie21, you might like a Jeep Renegade. It's described as a small SUV but it's really just a 5-seater hatchback but a few centimetres higher off the ground and thus easier to get in and out of.

A friend has one of those. He’s 6ft 8in (one of the few people my 6ft 4in son has met who’s taller than him!) and a personal trainer det so he’s huge but a Renegade suits him and his family just fine.

Allira it’s sp*ders in my wellies that I’m worried about! 👀 I was tidying out the garage where our wellies live, lacking a boot room, recently and there were some monster arachnids in there. 👀

LauraNorderr

Do you not have a boot room Allira?

Of course, LauraNorderr, but the boots, I'm afraid, have been relegated to the garage.

Allira it’s sp*ders in my wellies that I’m worried about! 👀 I was tidying out the garage where our wellies live, lacking a boot room, recently and there were some monster arachnids in there. 👀

Best not to investigate, SueDonim - I'm a spider magnet 😲

Oh dear Allira has Mr A been relegated to the boot room again. Surely you could let him have one of the spare bedrooms or one of the servants rooms at least.

I do agree about the nuisance of welly buckles Maizie. Often get caught in one’s evening gown when attending balls on the neighbouring estate across muddy fields.
Not getting the Rolls out in order to save the planet.

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He's taken over the sitting room. 😴

Are cars bigger because people are bigger??

Nandalot

My niece, a paediatric consultant, is very anti these monsters cars. They are so dangerous for pedestrians, particularly children in an accident. She used to leaflet such cars about the statistics.

They are not great for people driving smaller cars either.

I know of an accident on a rural road. Hardly a scratch to the large vehicle, £1000[and this was a few years ago] damage to the smaller car.

Allira it’s sp*ders in my wellies that I’m worried about! 👀 I was tidying out the garage where our wellies live, lacking a boot room, recently and there were some monster arachnids in there. 👀

My wellies live in the cellar, with the wine. I check them very carefully before putting them on ever since I disturbed a couple of wasps that had taken up residence in one. Suffice to say it didn’t end well for my big toe.

Allira

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He's taken over the sitting room. 😴

We are bigger but we CHOOSE bigger cars, there are plenty of small cars and on the top trim levels they are pretty nice.

In an accident it’s not rocket science that a small car comes off worst, however the safety of small cars is far better than it used to be

David49

Allira

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He's taken over the sitting room. 😴

We are bigger but we CHOOSE bigger cars, there are plenty of small cars and on the top trim levels they are pretty nice.

In an accident it’s not rocket science that a small car comes off worst, however the safety of small cars is far better than it used to be

What has that to do with the sitting room

The car sits on the drive, not in the sitting room.
The DH was sitting in the sitting room 😴

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Perhaps David parks his car in his sitting room and has a sofa in his garage so that he can guard his wellies night and day. Those pesky spiders, wasps and mice can cause havoc with ones toes.

David49 said We are bigger but we CHOOSE bigger cars, there are plenty of small cars and on the top trim levels they are pretty nice.

In an accident it’s not rocket science that a small car comes off worst, however the safety of small cars is far better than it used to be

Yes, it’s ironic that someone cannot see that in a contest of Big Car v Small Car, the small car is likely to come off worse.

The safety argument from SUV’s reminds me of the argument often heard from the US about guns. ‘I have a gun because my neighbour might have a gun and if I have a gun too, that makes us all safer.’

LauraNorderr

Perhaps David parks his car in his sitting room and has a sofa in his garage so that he can guard his wellies night and day. Those pesky spiders, wasps and mice can cause havoc with ones toes.

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I am still puzzled by David's post to me.

We used to have a lot of cars parked in our sitting room.
However, the DGC have grown out of toy cars now.

If we are looking at safety I believe that (for those inside it) while an SUV is safer than a small car in a head-on collision, a premium saloon with cutting-edge engineering can be safer than many mid-range or older design SUVs across the board.

I'm thinking Mercedes E-Class or Škoda Superb / VW Passat

...and for people not in the vehicle 10cms higher bonnet means 30% more deaths.

How lovely it is to have no car I don’t even know what an SUV is except I ve picked up it’s big 🤣and don’t bother enlightening me I ll be none the wiser I m happy with my free bus card gets me around and my feet do the rest