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4x4's should need a special license!!

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  • MaximumImpact
    MaximumImpact Posts: 419 Forumite
    Car Insurance Carver!
    My 4x4 is smaller than most cars and I need it because I live in the middle of nowhere, up a dirt track....Is that alright with you????? !!!!!!
    '' A man who defends himself, has a fool for a client''
  • Hintza
    Hintza Posts: 19,420 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    OK whilst we are at it can we ban all MPVs as well..........spawn of the devil. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    The drivers that should be banned are those with bad attitude, like the OP.

    Intolerance and impatience are the root cause of many road fatalitities.
  • Paddy2eyes
    Paddy2eyes Posts: 426 Forumite
    I think we should ban red cars! I don't like red as a colour very much and someone driving a red car once looked at me in a strange manner. I have also seen red cars parked badly, so obviously red car drivers should have to sit an advanced parking test.
  • mealone
    mealone Posts: 527 Forumite
    500 Posts
    We have two 4x4s, we live in the country along a lane that floods at least 6 months of the year and my OH builds roads for a living.

    We have appropriate vehicles for where we live, what do you drive op?

    cosy coupe?
  • sharnad
    sharnad Posts: 9,904 Forumite
    As much as I prefer people to us cars for what is seen as there main purpose people have paid tax on them and can use them for whatever they like

    How about a special licence for under 21 year olds in small cars to always have someone over 25 in them in case they speed

    Any other mad ideas to through in the mix

    I would love a gadget that makes cigarette buts attach to the people who smoked them and threw them on the ground
    Needing to lose weight start date 26 December 2011 current loss 60 pound Down. Lots more to go to get into my size 6 jeans
  • harveybobbles
    harveybobbles Posts: 8,973 Forumite
    People with large 4x4's should NOT bel allowed to park on the end of a row in a car park, blocking everyones view for pulling out. they should all have their own special carpark somewhere - perhaps with all the sodding caravaners!!!
  • motorguy
    motorguy Posts: 22,626 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    andy208833 wrote: »
    Given that these idiots are as bad as shed pulling caravaner's i reckon that you should have to prove that you need a 4x4 before you can get one. Live on a farm, down a dirt track or really need it for off road work then fair enough but does a school run mum really need one if they live in suburbia?

    4x4 drivers are the new Volvo 'look at me i'm invincible' idiots of the road imo

    Totally right. And when we've convinced enough morons in government to tax them off the road with dumb assed comments like that, then what will we target next?

    Convertibles - who really needs them? Driving about enjoying themselves. How very dare they! Why cant they drive a Skoda?

    Supercars - well you have to be rich to own them, so lets ban them too. Why cant they drive a Skoda?

    Hot Hatches - How dare they have fun in a car. Just make a 1.2 litre version and force everyone to drive those. Or a nice Skoda.

    People carriers - I rarely see those with seven people in them so make them drive a nice skoda instead. Or a fiat.

    ALTERNATIVELY WE COULD JUST LET PEOPLE DRIVE WHAT THEY WANT AND MIND OUR OWN BUSINESS. :mad:
  • Ian_W
    Ian_W Posts: 3,778 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    Buying a brand new top of the range UK made 4x4 last month - QUITE EXPENSIVE.

    Knowing it winds up numpties like the OP - PRICELESS!!
  • Markyt
    Markyt Posts: 11,864 Forumite
    andy208833 wrote: »
    does a school run mum really need one if they live in suburbia?

    Maybe, just maybe, the cars are also used for other things outside the times of the school run?
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