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[SPS]

Evening All,
Driving to the office this morning - it had been raining overnight - so puddles around on the back lanes!
Scene set,
New(ish) Land Rover on the school run moving at a very slow speed towards one of said puddles ( no more than a couple of inches deep).
Driven breaks hard and WAIT FOR IT....
DRIVES AROUND THE PUDDLE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD!! A driver behind the Rover could not move for laughing and pointing at this amazing life saving manoeuvre!
Don't you just luv em!!
Cheers
SPS

[Redruth]

No mention on your profile of where you live but I'm guessing, Surbiton, Godalming, Kingston??

In any event, somewhere that 4 wheel drives are a prestige car not a fully functioning vehicle.

Insurance companies include a clause for those areas for 4 wheel drive cars. If they get any mud on them or (heaven forbid) drive through a puddle, they lose their no claims bonus.

[SPS]

Staffordshire!!
God it must be spreading northwards!!
Can we ever contain it?
Cheers
SteveP

[Ray]

4x4 = 16 the drivers IQ??

if you need one out in the sticks fair enough. But is it really worth the dire fuel consumption, ( we should be conserving fuel for use in bikes!!) shite handling, the dock needed to park in etc. for the school run??

And before the comeback of well they are loads safer, I'm not sure the poor B that you have just clattered into will agree??!! Thats the society we live tho'..............I'm alright Jack/Jill.

Must go, got a tree to hug and a cardy to Knit from recycled bed socks.

Ray.

[guest1]

Originally posted by Ray
well they are loads safer,

Land rovers are most definitely not safer. They covered it on slop gear some time ago and whereas on most other vehicles you could at least open the drivers door to get out, the land rover was well and truly buckled.

[Jools]

What do you expect?

Most 4 x 4 drivers definition of off-roading is parking with one wheel up the kerb outside Fortnum and Masons





:"Jools...you can't park outside Fortnum and Masons...you'd be clamped"

Jools: "I know that you pedant, it was said for comic efect"

:"It's comedy jim...but not as we know it"

[Mark]

Have you ever seen a 4x4 crash due to heavey breaking? I've seen a brand new range rover barrel roll down the m27 once, nasty. He slammed the brakes on, tried to dodge the car in front and it flipped over 4 times, stopping some 200 yards away. And it bounced over everything on the way. Driver was killed. The feds reckon he was only doing 50!!

Own a 4x4 for road use only, NEVER. To me, it's a coffin waiting to be used.

5th Gear highlighted the problems with 4x4's. Their not as safe as you think, infact quite the opposite really.

[guest1]

Originally posted by flanker
Own a 4x4 for road use only, NEVER. To me, it's a coffin waiting to be used.

5th Gear highlighted the problems with 4x4's. Their not as safe as you think, infact quite the opposite really.

In scouse accent "calm down, calm down".
Every cars a coffin waiting to be used.

Like the guy in the barrell rolling rover, it's not so much the cars fault, it's the loose nut holding the steering wheel.

[Mark]