Another slow news week, another "ban 4wd" story

[Bird]

story starts off well...
"Three years ago, a survey found that three in five Australians were opposed to four-wheel-drives and sports utility vehicles using city and suburban roads"

http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/should-4wds-be-banned-from-city-roads-20111201-1o7jl.html

[cdustbehindme]

Did you read the He says bit??....  Its not too bad actually, makes some very good points...   Id pick this as a glass half full article     

also just checked my 4wd and it doesnt have a drop down dvd screen..... musnt be a 4wd 

[Mallory Black]

As for the dipstick blogger who says "in Europe bullbars are not allowed on cars in towns" Last time I looked this was not Europe.
bunch of jerks

[theflyingbadger]

also just checked my 4wd and it doesnt have a drop down dvd screen..... musnt be a 4wd 

mine is

[WilSurf]

...and you are impatient, driving over the kerb Jon.

[theflyingbadger]

...and you are impatient, driving over the kerb Jon.

when?

[WilSurf]

Yesterday at a little before 6pm at the Joondalup Drive when you drove behind the bus and turned left, via the kerb :-)

[theflyingbadger]

Yesterday at a little before 6pm at the Joondalup Drive when you drove behind the bus and turned left, via the kerb :-)

thought that was when it was. bloody buses

[mystq]

If I had $1 for every time I have helped someone out in a ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Standard Road Car" I would be laughing. Stories like this get me going Ban 4x4's Ban Bullbars  IT'S MY LIFE LET ME DO WHAT I WANT!

[duggie]

While I was driving to work one morning a work mate was getting of the workers bus and he walked right out in front of my Nissan. He had just came of a twelve hour night shift and then a one hour run home in the bus, yes he was tired and failed to look where he was going and what was coming, lucky I did recognise the workers bus and had slowed down , but i still hit him fair and square with the bull bar. The bull bar save his life, as he was going down he grabbed hold of the bar and hung on , saving him from going under the 4 x 4 and getting badly smashed up or worse. Yes he was bruised and badly shaken , but he was alive and able to go home from the hospital after only three hours.

[Snow]

Stupid mute subject.

Thank goodness for ring roads that by pass the cities.

I hate cities with a passion.

[Hairs]

I hate cities with a passion.

I'm hearing ya Snow.
 

[cdustbehindme]

yeh cities are painfull, my wife likes driving 4x4 there though says everyone gets out of the way haha   althought the clutch work is a bit much....

mine is
 

better go and buy dvd player so i can go offroad....   damn my mate just bought similar 4x and his has a dvd player

[peteandkyles]

story starts off well...
"Three years ago, a survey found that three in five Australians were opposed to four-wheel-drives and sports utility vehicles using city and suburban roads"

http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/should-4wds-be-banned-from-city-roads-20111201-1o7jl.html

I live in the desert. If I want to go camping anywhere closer than 300km, I have to have a 4WD and use it as a 4WD. I would not drive it as a daily driver around the city and my wife walks the kids to school as its quicker than trying to park the car.

Ban 4WD from the city you will ban most of country people being able to shop in the city on the odd occasion or taking a holiday with the family. Same as the debate around bull bars. We have a roo being hit around these roads at least once a week. Only last week there was another roll over of a sedan after hitting a roo. So far this year there have been at least 8 (rollovers) near the town that I know of.

[lilstookie]

We are 4WD owning motorcyclists....we kill kittens and drive wherever we want with our bullbar proudly leading the way :roll: stupid beige city slicker soccer parents I say that people who live in the city shouldn't be allowed outside the city limits


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[cdustbehindme]

We are 4WD owning motorcyclists....we kill kittens

wat the!     

does that mean i dont have a 4wd if i dont kill kittens, dam this is getting hard, first i need a dvd player.......

[wsullivan]

Those people in the city made that iphone your typing on......

Talk about labels......

[eldo]

i want to know how the votes are counted, seems we are losing the vote by 10%, not to bad though i guess, what i want to question is the comments, im sure that about 70% of them are pro 4wd, so how can the votes be so far out. we all need to get onto the votes and really show em all.
i do agree that people driving SUV's with 22 inch wheels and a nudge bar are considered 4wds, it really frustrates me, it is no different than driving a bloody torago, yet no one say ban them.... i drive trucks in the city and on major freeways daily, the morons in the cars are my only annoyance, the 4wders are all pretty switched on