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Andy.:
Well this has turned into a "which tabloid newspaper do you read"  thread rather than about the article which was published in one.

Aren't we all the concerned 4x4 lot  :lol:

SteveH:
Would imagine that survey was carried out by kia in their showrooms, and is probably a fair reflection of their customer base, out of order to make that much of a generalisation though, bet if they asked defender buyers the same questions they would get different answers..

Merlin:
If I say i read "The Sun" I presume I will be banned from this Forum forthwith.  As metioned earlier, the pictures are good. :lol:  :lol:

matthew:

--- Quote from: "Andy." ---Whilst reading today's Daily Star this morning I came across this article in the motoring section. If I had a scanner I would put it up but here in the unaltered text.

Off Road? No Chance.

KIA made a study of the sort of people who want to buy 4x4's, and the results prove something we've known for ages.
And, quite simply, it is that four-wheel drive owners have no intention of ever taking their cars off road.
So what do they crave that makes them lash out so much cash on something they'll never use.
First off, it's "big wheels". Why? Because it makes them feel "invincible" with that commanding high-up drive.
Secondly, it's "more space" and why not? They've usually got a big family and need the extra room. After that comes "roof rails" probably for stacking the kids bikes on, followed by "body bumpers" which to my mind means that their pride and joy won't get scratched when they park right across two spaces in the supermarket car park.
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That bit is probably true for 80 - 90% of 4x4s under 5 years old. Let's face it how many of us could afford to go laning in £20 - £30,000 worth of car?



--- Quote from: "Andy." ---Four wheel drive owners, in my experience, tend to be a selfish, arrogant and wealthy bunch who don't give a damn about how or where they park, how much they spend on fuel and couldn't care less about emisions, which means polluting our poor planet twice as much as anyone else.
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That bit is just stereotyping, you could insert virtually any premier brand (BMW, Jaguar, Lexus, etc). You could even insert "all ramblers are obnoxious" or "all 4x4s only want to tear up the countryside", every group has it's unsocial minority.



--- Quote from: "Andy." ---Last in their list of must-haves comes four-wheel-drive. Why? "Because it's nice to know you've got it if you need it."
Most of them wouldn't know how to engage it, let alone how to drive it.
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Again probably true for a large proportion of newer vehicles.

No I don't use a 4x4 as daily transport, I use a car that will out accelerate, out brake and out manueovre most large 4x4s so hopefully avoiding an accident in the first place. My LR is used for laning and towing, very little else.

Sooty:
Spot on Matthew =D>
Just remember the KIA is a soft roader not an off roader, the average reporter in that type of news paper would not know (or even bother to find out) the difference.
Let them all pontificate about how ALL 4x4 owners are uncareing, selfish, countryside distroyers, that does not make it true any more that the statment "all football supporters are hooligans" anybody with a modicome of common sence knows both those statment are complete rubbish but they sell newpapers and that is the objective in this case.
I have not bought a national newpaper for the last 4 years and I still know what goes on in the world, if all the population did the same they would stop printing the rubbish and out right lies and get back to printing facts.
Sooty gets down off his soap box, gets int his 60 mpg skoda and goes out leaving the three land rovers were they are parked as he does every day he goes to work.
Thats made me feel better ](*,)

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