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Jul. 9th, 2003 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brrmCut, because here be embedded images...
It's not so much the climate-changing aspect that bothers me about the larger 'SUV's, though, but their sheer size. I've attempted in the photos to get this across. In particular, the fact that the bonnet of the one in the pictures is at head height for the driver of a car such as my Rover, also pictured. What they do to cyclists, motorcycles and pedestrians, I really would rather not think about. Mercifully, whoever owns this behemoth has not fitted it with child^Wbull bars. This height is not only physically unsafe, but it hinders the visibility of other drivers at t-junctions and roundabouts.
And now the Hummer H2 has made it into this country, it seems we are turning into america, where SUVs now make up 50%-ish of new "car" sales.
</rant>
It's not so much the climate-changing aspect that bothers me about the larger 'SUV's, though, but their sheer size. I've attempted in the photos to get this across. In particular, the fact that the bonnet of the one in the pictures is at head height for the driver of a car such as my Rover, also pictured. What they do to cyclists, motorcycles and pedestrians, I really would rather not think about. Mercifully, whoever owns this behemoth has not fitted it with child^Wbull bars. This height is not only physically unsafe, but it hinders the visibility of other drivers at t-junctions and roundabouts.
And now the Hummer H2 has made it into this country, it seems we are turning into america, where SUVs now make up 50%-ish of new "car" sales.
</rant>
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