Results tagged “4x4” from Birmingham Mail - Is It Just Me

Anyone noticed how drivers of these 4x4 Tonka trucks whose only excursion off road is the car park at Sainsbury's seem to be incapable of actually driving them.

Maybe they are sitting too high up or the ridiculous vehicles are just too big to allow anyone to see white lines but the people perched behind the wheel really do struggle to park them. Some clown in a monster affair with personalised number plates parked next to me while I was in the gym today (first one to laugh will find there is a contract out on them) leaving a gap of less than an inch between the passenger side of their posh bread van and my wing mirror.

There was not even enough room to open my door and slam it satisfyingly into expensive, gleaming paintwork to squeeze in so I was left scrambling in from the passenger side and climbing over to the driver's seat.

My mood had not helped by being almost forced off the road on my way to the gym by a BMW 4x4 driver, who either had a sore ear or was on his mobile, who seemed to think the white line in the midde of the road was a guide track, something like Scalextric. Perhaps the time has come when these giants are taxed not as cars but as something more substantial, like, say an artic - £1,850 a year would seem fair.