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laser_jock99:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/opinion/columnists/lifestyle/joanburnie/

e-mail your complaints here please:

http://www.pcc.org.uk/feedback/index.html

I'm fumming that this daft bint should be allowed to write this utter crap. The tone of her article is full of nonsense, prejudice and bigotry and seems intent on stirring social hatred.

Please consider sending in a complaint to the Press Complaints Authority.

Rangie3.0LtrDan:
Sent her an email and going to copy it to the Editor :D

Ms Burnie,

What on earth are you spouting?  I read your article in disbelief.  In fact most of what you wrote is utter tosh!

Firstly, you say you want owners of gas guzzlers to pay more excise duty and more RFL because of the vehicle type!  Well then let me give you some statistics.  An average Range Rover Classic with a 3.5 litre V8 does approximately 18MPG.  Now also bear in mind that most of these vehicles which are still on the road run on LPG.  Secondly my Land Rover Discovery which is nearly 15 years old gets better fuel consumption than my 55 reg Vauxhall Astra estate.

Another point you might want to consider is the environment impact of producing a new vehicle.  It is a proven fact that there is more environmental damage done during the manufacture process than there is through running the vehicle.  Land Rovers and similar vehicles were built to last a very very long time (there are still originals from around 1958 running on the road today).  How many other vehicles can say that?  Surely thats better for the environment as they mean people havent had to buy a new vehicle?  Yes your Toyota Prius type vehicle might be good on MPG and emissions, but how long is it going to last?  Vehicles today arent built to last, they are built to be thrown away after a small period of time.

Onto your claims about safety.  We constantly come under attack about how unsafe our vehicles are for pedestrians.  Please tell me how many accidents are happening because our vehicles are driving along pavements?  Hardly any as far as i know.  Now my problem is why not educate pedestrians to look before crossing a road?  The vehicle is big enough to see coming and its not like they go as fast as a normal car either!  The other point about people in Range Rovers parking where they want to regardless of legality.  This is also utter coswallop!  I collect my 10 year old step daughter from her school 2 nights a week after her post school activies.  Now i am a disabled person yet i sometimes have to park around 200 metres away from the school in order to park legally and safely, yet the people in their normal cars see fit to park on the zig zag lines immediately out the front of the school.  So maybe you would like to check and confirm your information before printing it.

Your other point about charging tolls for them when they travel on motorways is really stupid and pointless.  If you looked at the main causes for problems on motorways its people who dont pay attention on the road (regardless of what vehicle they drive) and the travelling salesmen in their company Mercedes and BMW who decide they can drive at whatever speed they want regardless of what the law says.  In fact the larger vehicles like 4x4's are safer as they have a more commanding view of the road and can see further than your average car.

Might i also suggest you visit a website.  http://www.4x4prejudice.org which may be able to clarify alot of the true facts about these vehicles.  Pay special attention to the points about percentages of vehicles which are diesel powered as opposed to petrol powered.  The problem with people like yourself is that you are misinformed.  You believe the hype about these issues.  Most of the statistics are brought over from America (hence the term SUV) and are based on much bigger engined vehicles and a majority of them being run on petrol.  As i said earlier in the email alot of the petrol powered V8 Land Rovers are run on LPG as promoted by the government in reducing emissions!

I will be sending a copy of this letter to your editor with a covering letter stating why you should not be allowed near a type writer, let alone a computer, ever again!

Yours informingly

Dan Hardy

laser_jock99:
Hang fire on the Press Complaints bit.....

The Daily Record appears to be a Scottish version of The Sunday Sport!

Re-reading the article I'm not 100% sure if it's meant to be somewhat tonge-in-cheek?

Either way I've e-mailed her my opinion.

How dare SHE call US ugly....

woody:
WOW what a great read
come on so many words and she done it without using any facts (thats clever)

why doesnt she put her efforts into Edinburgh's drug problem (i believe there is a major problem in Edinburgh), now that would benefit society

she forgets that its only footballers that can afford a car for the school run, a car for work (is kicking a ball work) a car for shopping and something for the weeekend

as for the willy debate we could have a poll :lol:  :lol:
the wife doesnt drive does that mean in the poll i would vote massive (liar)

i was still ugly when i drove a metro, i am proud of my looks, driving the metro not so poud of :lol:

as for tolls on roads if they tax on size then what about HGV's this would increase the cost of goods and the cost of living

and if they banned the largest engines on the road then they still wouldnt be happy as there would still be a 4x4 presence

WishIhadaLandy:
not a single one of the complaints she has made about 4x4 couldn't be applied to at least one other type of car:

fuel emissions: anything with a big engine,
crash damage: has she never seen an MPV, van, bus, HGV, big merc/bmw etc.
ugly:what has that got to do with anything, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that.

no 4x4s within 10 miles of an urban area
sorry to all those people who can only afford 1 car, if its a 4x4 you cant go shopping, socialising, to work and i guess your gonna have to send your kids to boarding school or they will have to walk coz you cant take them.

Not difficult to work out where she was talking from when she said all that!!

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