Range Rovers, Q7s and Cayennes are good looking cars.How can anything bigger than an X5 be nice looking? I dread that size of chelsea tractor at school pick-up time here!
Not sure that cars applies to any of these , agricultural vehicles more like .
A strip of 1/2” ply with 1” nails hammered through and placed across your drive might persuade them otherwise ...
Mercedes make large cars too you know
The other week VW Golf drivers were getting stick on the forum for the ‘R’ models and now the BMW X7 (which can’t have been out long enough for anyone to have had a negative encounter with!) are the new evil...
It’s a bit of a lightweight, and smaller against MBs offering...
It is those enormous GL things that cause the most offence to me! If they are not big enough to be seen from space, MB decided to put some ludicrously big petrol V8 engines in some of them too, so they can be heard coming from another continent! Just ridiculous and completely unnecessary!
Who on earth would contemplate buying one!
---- and I was going to add off road capability- but that's pushing it a bit For some there's also a curious "acceptable face of ostentation" vibe associated with this type of vehicle. Where prospective buyers in the past might have veered away from the ostentatious show of wealth a large limousine be it Bentley Rolls Maybach or Phaeton might have conveyed, the appeal of the "utilitarian image" of a very expensive large 4x4 seemed to be it afforded sufficient social camouflage of that intention. [without hiding it all together of course as that would defeat the purpose]
You missed the joke
Middle East - trust me, you need something very large to feel even a little safe with the driving
I’m not sure an X7 would be considered to be a show of wealth, any more than a BMW 5/7 Series would be. Don’t get me wrong they’re a relatively expensive car, but for me at least the statement it makes is more “family & middle class” than “superiority & wealth”.I'm not a fan of SUVs at all, to me it's just another US influence that manufacturers are exploiting. They're generally a lot heavier than 'normal' sized cars, meaning more wear on the road, you can't see past them which often takes away your ability to drive pro-actively, they're especially annoying when parked near corners blocking any view into a junction. Then there's the additional issue that a lot of people that drive them can't get to grips with their size and as a result drive and park them badly. If they're bought for their actual abilities as previously mentioned then each to their own, but buying a huge thing like an X7 just as a show of wealth or a feeling of superiority, which quite often means they're driven with that kind of attitude, makes me hate them. Unless you're towing a caravan or similar or you live on a farm or you need the load capacity on a regular basis, essentially a good reason for owning one, then I don't understand why a decent sized estate won't do the job for you. Rant over
