It barely fits in the bloody car park. So bad for pedestrians and the environment.
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It's just crazy that these things are allowed.
Ok, let people buy them if they really want, but they shouldn't be allowed to use them on the roads that other people have to share with them!
They should be allowed to drive them, but pay a price for them. Tax the absolute shit out them and don't allow it to be a taxable right off for "business purposes". But then I also say that should go for all four wheel drivers. 30 years ago the only people who had anything bigger than a station wagon were people that actually used them for recreational use. The argument of "it's safer for me to drive them" is the same argument people use when the gun debate is used - it's only safer because everyone else has one is not a valid argument.
People don't need four wheel drives - they have them because it's convenient. If you want that convenience then you should have to pay for it.
taxing them wont remove their massive blind spots that make them so dangerous. Even fwds have some use cases but these don't, to my knowledge there isn't any thing these stupid things can do that another vehicle cant do better besides maybe running over children, no one needs one of these.
I'm not a fan and would never own one of these, but I think the usual argument in these threads is that these have a larger towing / carrying capacity.