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UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows
(www.theguardian.com)
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SUVs the jack of no trades and master of fewer. They're such a strange concept, forgo the ease of a hatchback, the space of an estate, the performance of a sports car, the utility of a 4x4 and in return you get to kill more kids when you hit them.
I'm clearly not the target market with my '05 Civic that, because I live fairly rural, I put winter tires on. But, I don't understand what I'm missing. The wealthier around me are all in them, the rest of us are in hatchbacks and estates.
A lot of them are basically estates these days. The names have all become mixed up to the point of being effectively meaningless.
I'd been bullied into renting a small SUV as we were 4 friends travelling abroad for a wedding. Thankfully the rental car lady had more sense and seeing all our bags threw a Fiat Tipo estate at us. That thing swallowed bags, very impressed.
We're sweating our 10yr old SUV and then moving to an estate.... as long as my wife agrees :)