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4x4s Get Off the Road
V8MoneyPit:
So, I've put my money where my mouth is and e-mailed them:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have just got to hear of your forthcoming programme. I understand your flyer reads:
Do we need big 4x4s in our town centres?
Are they really more polluting or dangerous?
Does our consumerist market justify their ownership?
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It is my opinion that the questions are presented in a biased manner before you even start. Unfortunately, this leads me to think I already know what the tone of the programme will be like.
If it was more balanced it would read something like:
What are your views on larger vehicles in inner cities?
'Do we need big 4x4's in our cities?' is almost answering itself in the use of the word 'need'. Nobody 'needs' anything. With the exception of food and water. And why single out 4x4's? You should really employ more professional researchers if that's the best they can do.
In answer to your questions though......
'Big 4x4's':
Most 4x4's are no larger than many saloon cars. So they certainly don't generate greater congestion than many other vehicles. Let me pick an example:
Land Rover Discovery - 4.84m long
Ford Mondeo - 4.8m long
A Mondeo is not exactly a huge car by any standards.
So if you are questioning whether we should have 4x4's in our cities, you should really be asking whether we should have any private vehicular transport in our cities.
Pollution:
Well, in real life (not those misleading perfect world figures produced by manufacturers!), the fuel consumption of most 4x4's is not vastly different to saloon cars of similar size.
Dangerous:
It depends on what you define as dangerous. A vehicle is an inanimate object and, as such, cannot be dangerous. Put a driver behind the wheel and any vehicle is a potential weapon. Unfortunately, too many people see vehicle safety in the secondary sense. i.e. after a crash occurs. The day people realise that crashing is not an inevitability and can be avoided by addressing primary safety issues, the road will be a safer place. It is the driver who is unsafe, not the vehicle. It's about time someone pointed this out to the masses.
Does our consumerist market justify their ownership?:
This question applies to any consumer product. The manufacturing of which causes more pollution than any car pumps out of it's exhaust. In order to change this, you would first have to fundamentally change the attitudes and life expectations of those living in the developed world.
I do hope you manage to put together a balanced and realistic programme. Unfortunately, this is a subject that is currently in vogue and there is a lot of poor, and sometimes totally misleading, information floating about on both sides of the argument. As you have probably gathered, I think people are missing the point in targeting a minority group. There is a much bigger picture that we really ought to be looking at.
Yours faithfully,
Steve Nash
scania:
Wow steve
errrrrrrrr do you know a certain man is leaving No 10 in May, with a speech like that you should apply lol
Seriously tho, I get 45 mpg from my 4x4, its comfortable and definalty has less emmisions than the guy with the knackered peugot 2 doors down.
I got verbally attached in a certain A**A superstore the other day. i parked in a bay, opened my door carefuly and this bloke started swearing and shouting at me. "Mind where you*** park with your *** jeep, think you can park where you *** want"
duhhhhhhhh! well in a car park I suppose I can :lol:
steve howes:
crickey steve i wish i was that articulate, nice one mate! :lol:
wing nut:
ive just had a reply and the women has left her number for me to contact her :lol: :lol:
jaws:
--- Quote ---scania Seriously tho, I get 45 mpg from my 4x4, its comfortable and definalty has less emmisions than the guy with the knackered peugot 2 doors down.
--- End quote ---
45mpg wow!from my brand new festa st i get 30mpg if i'm lucky!not had the 90 longenough to see what that does but i bet it's more than the fezzi!
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