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Exactly Chaz.. if we all drove a similar car the world would be a better place for everyone. I was laughing last week at the outrage from European car makers at the comments from the Uber CEO re Chinese EV's.. it was just sheer protectionism, but he was right, we don't need any of the bollocks which goes hand in hand with modern motoring, heated leather seats, launch control, intelegent parking pilot, it's all bollocks.. if we're going to save the planet, we don't need £100k EVs we need identical affordable metal boxes. Making motoring the preserve of the wealthy is just classist bollocks.. we should all have the right to get around cheaply without the fear of being crushed to death by a massive £100k truck.

Jeez.. don’t you think you’ve caused enough trouble for one week

Same here @tooth but it’s usually Porsche wankers rather than size conscious.. the types who think a car which can do 0-60 in 3.2 seconds in inherently better than a car which takes a measly 3.4 I’d advise the Goldilocks approach in future... not too big or too small, not too fast or too slow not too expensive nor too cheap... juuust right.

Our house is up a little path away from the road.. the nearest street parking space to our house is 200m away but I’ll often have to park on a neighbouring street so if I had an EV I’d need 30 or 40 extensions to charge it... imagine the trip hazards!

Same for us.. speed bumps and massive pot holes, even though i hardly drive the car, it always fails the MOT with leaking shocks. We live on a row of terrace houses which pre-date the car so nobody has off street parking or a garage but if every family just had one small car, it could probably cope, alas, folks have 2 .. when we moved there, i hadn't parallel parked for years so it was a struggle.. nowadays it's my forte.

It is long but it's narrower than a Mini.. and nearly 12" narrower than an Audi Q7 so if 2x Q7s pass on the road, that's 2' less road i have to ride on.. it's not the length that's causing an issue.. said the actress to the... ect Also, if i look out the window, i can see cyclists, pedestrians, pushchairs, wheelchair users and such because it's also the same height as a mini, not jacked up.

I think it started in the 80s, as folks point out, America is big but from my knowledge, it’s always been big even before the 1980s I remember seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger driving a Hummer when I was a kid, I think this was the first crossover from military vehicle to road.

But they would be safe if everyone was driving the same size car, it’s the disproportionate size between vehicles which is causing the danger.. which was my exact point 20 posts ago

I'm not saying you should drive 41000 miles in a 1L Loop @jkbrwn but i'm sure there must be something in between that and the SUV. It wasn't always this way, the US must have plenty of older cars on the market, you don't have to listen to those pesky marketeers forcing you to buy what they tell you to buy.. i appreciate (lithium mining aside) an EV is more environmentally friendly but the carbon footprint of an old car has already happened. How have y'all become such fearful road users? folks are living through war zones and y'all scared to drive to work unless you're cocooned in a tank, when i was a kid, we didn't even wear seat belts as a 5yr old, i would straddle the transmission in my dads old Land Rover and change gear for him while our whippet stuck it's head out the window.. which incidentally, he drove back from South Africa.. so distances, through geographical sparseness are indeed possible in cranky old cars, or they used to be before the motoring industry convinced us otherwise.. My safety, my wife, moms or boys safety is equally as important to me / them but it seems, these^ fears are being played upon.

So why don't you? Here's my old Loop.. (997cc, 60+mpg) I used this for my 40min daily commute into the city when i lived out in sticksville.. i would drop the kid at nursery and the boot was plenty big enough for the Bugaboo pushchair, it's all you really need. ..and my 240 wagon (1986cc 20mpg if you're lucky) which i used at the weekend for camping trips, bikes, fishing tackle and such .. nowadays, i hardly drive at all.. probs, less than 1000 miles/yr

This^ is the most sensible thing i've read all day 😍

I'm just eating pizza with the offspring.. 😋

Having read all POVs.. i still can't understand why y'all can't simply choose a smaller car instead of your SUVs .. the car market is consumer driven so drive it with your consumerism.. i appreciate SUVs are safer but your need for safety is compromising the safety of other road users.. SUVs can drive on dirt roads apparantly?.. as someone who's blessed with zero sense of direction, we've negotiated treacherous mountain dirt tracks all over Europe and snow drifts across the Peak District with zero visibility in nothing more than a Fiat Panda or VW Lupo and i've lived to tell the tale.. it's just a case of forgoing a small percentage of ones own comfort and safety for the wellbeing of other road users, some folks are preparred to make these sacrifices and some folks are not.

^^Hey.. how did you know I was missing all those things?

Yep.. our entire infrastructure was built around the horse and cart which had a similar wheelbase to cars built up to the millennium.. I’m not making comparisons here folks, SUVs are fine for American roads but as previously mentioned, unless you change your buying habits, our small island with no motor industry if it’s own is destined for ever larger vehicles which are too wide for our roads.

Where will it all end? to be visible / safe amongst the 2 tonne vehicles, you buy a 3t vehicle.. when everyone drives a 3t vehicle you buy 4.. the larger the cars get, the more dangerous roads become for other road users.. and crazy as it sounds, i’d like to be safe and visible too

Y'all need to start driving tiny micro-cars or what us Europeans would refer to as 'cars' Our roads are just not suitable for these types of vehicles, but while you're driving the market forward it ain't going to change for the rest of us and i'll have to share the cycle lanes with these monstrosities.. i appreciate, they shouldn't be driving in the cycle lanes but our roads are way too narrow for two of these monster trucks to pass on either side of the road unless they do, so it comes down to.. are SUV drivers in the UK incredibly selfish?.. yes! indeed they are. Come on Americans.. it's up to you to save us all from this motoring hell! ..

Oh wow! congratulations.. that's great news I like a box on wheels too.. (i drove a 240 wagon around for years) but it's only the side view^^ which looks like a box on wheels, the front looks like something from the future.. the headlights remind me of a Dyson fan heater

Only thing i can offer this week is an Anna Soba handmade cat mug Charmingly wonky.. all her cats have bumholes

Love the front.. not sure about the rest of it though!? like a friday afternoon styled car.. the designer spent all week meticulously working on the front end.. dudes from the office shout "you coming to the pub" yeah fk it.. draw a box on wheels and it's done.. What's all this with the growing family, is there a baby-broark on the way?

I’m surprised Levi’s are so placid in regards to the use of red tab.. It’s hazy but If I remember rightly.. part of the 2007 lawsuit was not only the placement or colour of tab but it regarded ‘any tab being attached between folded pieces of fabric’ (I can’t remember the exact wording) Levi’s seem much more aggressive in regards to protecting their arcs, flashers or two horse patch, than they do tab.. I mean, we still see tabs, rarely do we see arcs or a patch depicting ‘things’ pulling apart a a pair of jeans.

Wow!.. @TripicalMidbooster what's the prospects for recovery, will it be full or partial? .. When i was a Niketalk member in a previous lifetime, i'd been gradually selling off my collection to a dude in Orange County, in the time i knew him, he'd left university, got a job, put a payment down on a house and started funding his younger brother through his education, any spare cash spent buying my old Nikes.. One day i got an email from his hospital bed saying he'd suffered a stroke and was recovering from his second surgery.. a stark reminder of how life can change in a heartbeat. ..anyway, welcome to the forum!

They don’t ‘own all arcs on back pockets’ the Levi’s arcs are a registered trademark and if your arcs look Levi-esque the lawyers will act for infringement / copyright protection.

Levi’s should force FC to recall all the 30th ani pairs to be unpicked by means of poetic justice..

Wait what.. who’s arcs were TCB plagiarising again?