Not a new sexual deviancy, a way to describe 'family' vehicles that are way too big for standard parking bays. 'Which' reckons there are now over 150 car models that are taking the piss (not their words ) and that over 40% of new car sales last year were SUVs.

In my book, even they're not as bad as those double cab pick up trucks - they should be made to park with Luton vans and mini-buses! Came back to a multi-storey in Durham last week to find one had left me about 6 inches to get in on the driver side and was sticking out 3 feet into the roadway. As usual, the cover over the back was mint condition and looked like it was never opened.

Never mind emission charges - make these selfish buggers pay more if they insist on using tanks as urban runabouts.

Them monster trucks get the finger if they try to cut me up in my Sinclair C5..

I remember a number of years ago this bloke being interviewed for driving this monster of a 4x4 complete with big bloody cow catcher bars on the front( in case he encountered a herd of wildebeest on the visit to the retail park?)
He was a skinny little short arse with his rodent kids and wife and had the bloody nerve to say he drove it because the protection of his family was important and if he’s in a collision his family would be the family that would survive.
I don’t if it’s this that gets people to buy these, small dick syndrome or ‘look at me’ I’m just vulgar but don’t realise it.
As for crew cab pick ups, all that pick up bit has ever had as a load is the food shop.

Cars are huge nowadays - remember back in the day, my Dad used to always put his car in the garage- various Fords and a few Sierras.
He stopped bothering when he upgraded to a Mondeo.

Nowadays unless you have a large or a double garage there is no way your ever getting your car in there. Driving past the new housing estate at the end of my road (which is being built on Kettering's old ground) the garages are tiny- basically just outdoor storage- you ain't getting a car in them unless you drive a Ka!

There’s a clip on You Tube we’re a bloke is sat in his monster 4x4 and the warden turns up and looks at his windscreen and starts to write out his ticket, the bloke asks what he’s doing as he has a valid ticket, the warden says he’s straddled across two parking bays so he needed two tickets…the driver insists he doesn’t…but funnily enough the warden says you use two bays you pay for two bays…but the arrogant driver says the bays should be bigger…. Now I don’t love wardens but he just tucked the ticket behind his wiper screen and waved goodbye.

Mind you if they did design parking bays to accommodate 4x4’s we’d lose half the parking bays.

If they worked out their cost per mile (including the finance taken) I suspect a lot would save money using taxis.
There are at least three 2-person households in our street of 56 houses, with each of the 3 households running 3 vehicles, & none of the 9 are kept in a garage

Over the road from us they have extended the house and there’s a total of five cars to the household..we had three but off the road…now two….but it must be a pain where parking’s tight.

well we are a 2 person household with three cars but unlike the rest who have them i keep one in the garage always. just taking the least used one its about 600 quid a year just to have it. mainly its used for football matches and if i did put the fuel used into the equasion i could come to pools by train for nearly every home saturday league fixture for about the same cost. i just like cars like others like say art and collecting this that and the other. could go the extra mile and sell em all. never leave the house and leave my lad a good wedge after i gave out my last yawn in life.

a couple get married and drive a normal vehicle. then they have a kid and after buying a cot they go out to buy a SUV or a people carrier. can never understand this as i managed quite well with a peogeot 505 estate when we had my lad which are actually longer than some of these monster 4 x4 things built for off road use where the only off road use they get is a car park. all vehicles now look to have been on steroids when compared to older models of them with no more space inside the vehicle. if peoples driving improved by concentration there would be no need to protect the family with steel as in todays world anything seems to go as long as its not going a few MPH over a speed limit.