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Another Anti-4x4 TV Programme!
blackbob:
--- Quote from: "SWEETY" ---my friends dad drives 38T lorries, a car pulled out a junction & under the trailler, He said " it felt like going over a speed bump untill looking in his mirrow & there was a flat heep in the road.If they had put a 4x4 against a 38Tonner the same out come would of happened
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my friend was hit by a oil tanker last week on a motor way on his way back from bulgaria he was driving a nissan 4x4 which was a total mess but they only had glass cuts
my first coment was glad that they didnt take there bmw as they would have been killed
the tanker driver shook his hand and was glad they were in a 4x4 he said he didnt see them passing him
and they have bought a shogun till the insurance pays out
i like driving my 4x4 and as its a 1988 model on lpg and i do low milage i dont think a biast program is going to change my mind also my family want 4x4s when they pass there driving test and those that drive also have 4x4s we have a disco 2 rangies a shogun a frontera and a fiat panda
and we fly for holidays
so when we have a nice warm spring and summer you can all thank my family for the global warming
(did any one see the program on ch4 a while back the great global warming conspiricy CO2 dont make global warming its a by product of the effects of warming)
when i was at school we were told we were heading for another ice age so what has changed(POLITICS)
cardiff_gareth:
Ofcom is the way to go as enough complaints will make them take action :wink:
crusader:
--- Quote from: "defuzz" ---dreadnought, I think your avatar adequatley describes what we are doing to the world with our gas guzzlers. I for one ran over 23 penguins and an endangered siberian tiger today and I can't be the only one.......
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Totally Agree! I was the one that Killed the Cow with my Bullbar! :lol:
And what i would like to know is?
Did the Producers of this Programme get Permission from FIFTH GEAR for showing the Crash Test between the Shogun/Civic? :shock:
Skibum346:
Said my piece to OFCOM...anyone counting....?
--- Quote ---I was appalled at the tactics employed by this programme in the way they represented 4x4's.
There were a number of "tests" carried out to "prove" that a 4x4 is bad, one of which was three "representative" 4x4 drivers reversing around a corner. The programmes argument was that the fact that the vehicle was a 4x4 was the cause of two drivers failing this manouvre. I believe this represents clear bias as I would argue the cause is lack of skill or attention of the driver.
Further, the programme showed a number of video clips to the three drivers of flooding, forest fires and other weather phenomenon. The argument put to the drivers was that their vehicles were contributing to global warming leading to the demonstrated weather effects. This was omission driven by bias. They failed to give accurate statistics comparing the contribution of 4x4's against that of other vehicles. In particular the fact that many 4x4's are more efficient than some people carriers, executive saloons and sports cars.
The prgramme also regularly refered to the size of 4x4's, building the picture of 4x4'sa as too big for the road (happily for them they managed to find a 4x4 driver with an escalade). They failed to point out that many 4x4's are no larger than typical family saloon's or executive.
I believe in the right of individuals to have an opinion and make that opinion public. I will fight for their right to do so. What I am gravely concerned about is an individual using their access to the media to promote their own opinion thorugh innaccurate, biased arguments particularly when they fail to provide all the information.
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BrumLee:
If they made 4x4's as ugly as Mr Sargent then no one would buy them :lol: :lol:
Vince Cobley's got a MUD number plate 8) good on you Vince, nice one 8) 8) Bet they had Ed on the show because Vince would have more than likely told Mr Sargent he was a pillock :lol: :lol:
Are all 4x4's shiny? I mainly see kitted up 4x4's round by me and on the way to work :wink: They easily outnumber the shinies, so why were there none in this program :roll:
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