4 x 4 - raison d'etre?

nickcc

Bet the OP is sitting there and thinking, wound this lot up a treat. If you look at his join date coupled with no useful posts I really wonder who the mugs are. Maybe he just has some spare time on his hands now he has broken up from infants school but drawing many serious members into a very childish argument should be beneath contempt.

youth_leader

Anyone looking to get a 4x4 because they can't get home without one because of bad country road/flooded rivers like me, I have to recommend the X trail. I had an old Mitsubishi Shogun which drank diesel and I am getting 48 mpg out of this - it's so marvellous not to look at the gauge for a week!

Happy Christmas!

motorguy

nickcc wrote: »

Bet the OP is sitting there and thinking, wound this lot up a treat. If you look at his join date coupled with no useful posts I really wonder who the mugs are. Maybe he just has some spare time on his hands now he has broken up from infants school but drawing many serious members into a very childish argument should be beneath contempt.

I find it quite fun, although not very challenging.

Its like shooting fish in a barrel.

He came on here expecting support and hes been made to look a fool, so result as far as i'm concerned.

Rolandtheroadie

Only ever had one 4x4, bought because it was cheap, 8 miles away and had a v8 (two birds with one stone so to speak, wanted both at some point).
Done about 15 MPG, the guy I passed it onto managed to get it down to 7 when towing.

Originally bought to tow a big caravan, I found out after buying, it couldnt have towed the big Hobbys we were looking at anyways.

Joe_Horner

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

Do you,

Drive a car when a bicycle, or the bus, could get you to work just as well. No

Waste money on fine wine when a cup of tea would quench your thirst just as well. No

Take a holiday in foreign climes, think of the environment and cycle to your nearest beach instead. No

Live in a house larger or have a garden larger than everyone else, you could manage perfectly well in a two up two down. No

[...]
apart from celebrities and their wannabe weird disciples, does anyone normal care a jot what anyone else thinks of their car/house/job title/lifestyle. Oh yes

You should see the cars my inlaws have been through just to get the "right image". Usually followed by trading in again within 6 months because they've all been completely impractical.

There really isn't any genuine practical reason for most 4x4 owners to have one. Personally I don't care whether they choose to or not, but I'd much prefer that they'd just answer honestly "because I want to" if challenged.

goonarmy

andydiysaver wrote: »

wish I could say I was making it up - went out to get petrol today , only do it once a week and it's 50-50 at the pumps - normal cars and 4x4's, I'm thinking- must be co-incidence because I've learned on this thread that 4x4's are in fact 80+mgs and perhaps this was the yearly fill up for the 4x4 owners in the area etc..


anyway there's this discovery I think it was parked at a pump, one ahead of it is free, so I go up round the top reverse back - not enough so the 4x4 can't get out or drive around, but obv a pump is free I need some petrol


old git comes out gets in the 4x4 give me the horn on the way out, for what, parking and getting petrol? He clearly got past me ok or he'd not be able to blast the horn - evidently it's my fault his oversized vehicle isn't manouverable enough to get out of a petrol station in one piece... me, my 4x4, my road, stereotyped vehicle, stereotyped attitude........

So this proves that tbey arent too big- cos you can drive round it, they aint hard to see around cos you see the pump past it, and they aint hard to maneuver cos it drove round you:rotfl::T

andydiysaver

bigjl wrote: »

Well you have just joined and started by starting a thread in a hope to create animosity.

Perhaps it is indeed you who needs a new site.

Perhaps this isn't the site for you?

Maybe something about bicycles perhaps.

Perhaps there you can find some likeminded lentil eaters to converse with perhaps?

woah...major leap of faith there, I don't like 4x4's and suddenly I'm a lentil eating cyclist?


I've started a threat to get people talking and it's gone pretty well so far hasn't it, with views from both sides of the fence?

andydiysaver

motorguy wrote: »

I sold my x5 several years ago. Doing 25K a year of commuting so a Golf TDI is the order of the day.

Your sports car - a Subaru perchance?

Wifie had a Scooby before her current z4. Fantastic fun!

Subaru's drink as much petrol as 4x4's - why would I want one of those?

andydiysaver

goonarmy wrote: »

So this proves that tbey arent too big- cos you can drive round it, they aint hard to see around cos you see the pump past it, and they aint hard to maneuver cos it drove round you:rotfl::T

obv I can't expect you to appreciate it you weren't there, but I drove around the outside then reversed back - then he drives around me in the same lane which is more of an ask and then gets annoyed,


..thought these things came with "toys galore" you'd think power steering might be one of them?

Retrogamer

andydiysaver wrote: »

Subaru's drink as much petrol as 4x4's - why would I want one of those?

Some of them are 4x4's but most are AWD