This thing is a Frankenstein monster. Impractical and the wrong car for the UK in 2025
For a long time, like many others I am sure, I have been quietly infuriated by the emergence of steroidal family cars. The UK is transforming elegant vehicles into metaphorically speaking muscle-bound SUVs (sport utility vehicle). Everything is now a steroidal sport utility vehicle. Super-heavy, difficult to park especially for the fairer sex who have a real dilemma with these cars as they like the size for security reasons but no doubt hate them for the near impossibility of parking them in marked spaces designed for cars from a bygone age. They barely fit marked spaces and leave no space to open the effing door!
How many SUVs are scratched in car parks and how many SUV scratch other cars in car parks? Lots!
And often they are four-wheel drive for no reason at all because the car will be driven on tarmac all its life. People are pandering to their base self-indulgent instincts and the manufacturers in a madcap doom loop are feeding this self-indulgent madness in supplying ever bigger cars.
Take the ‘mini’. Yes, it is no longer a mini but a massive SUV. I have just walked past a Mini Countryman model S with a ’74 registration plate meaning it is new and it looks hopelessly stupid.
It has four-wheel drive and a souped-up engine for fast acceleration despite the fact that the car will be driven in the urban jungle all its life where the speed limit is 20mph! More madness. It is a classic steroidal car. A Frankenstein monster evolved from what was once a charming and hugely successful genuine mini. Even the first BMW version of the modern mini although much larger than the original was nice. Still fairly small although as big as a family salon from the ’70s. But this recent creature is doom loop madcap madness in my view.
These heavy vehicles are as mentioned hard to park and parking is very important for drivers and also, they are more prone to damage the road surface if the car is an EV with a massively heavy battery in the rear or under the seats. These are heavy cars which incidently means the car has less mileage if an EV.
More impracticalities. This mad journey to ever larger cars is also a journey to more impracticalities and nonsense.
Almost all modern cars in the UK are way too big for their intended purpose namely to carry one person a short distance on tarmac in the urban environment.
All the rest – the huge size and fancy steroidal styling – is superfluous; just pandering to the illogical desire of customers for something new, big and shiny. Bigger is better right?! No, definitely not.
The government should intervene and draft laws which limit the size of family cars. What is wrong with that? It would help free up space in car parks and free up space on the roads. It would help preserve the roads. We are all familiar with the potholes of the UK. They are famous and will cost billions to repair. If the council money can be found which it can’t because the country is essentially broke.
Britain has become far too self-indulgent. It links into the overgenerous welfare state and the Labour MP’s unwillingness to curb welfare spending which is catastrophic for the UK, believe me. There will be severe consequences. This is another form of self-indulgence. Brits need to be more logical and practical. Common sense needs to be reintroduced into UK lives.
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