Why do people drive unnecessarily large cars?

It is other peoples business where pedestrian safety and use of excess road space is concerned.

Most people who drive massive 4x4's have bought them on credit or finance not straight up cash.

As opposed to those who drive saloons/hatchbacks etc. have not bought on credit/finance?

It's a nonsensical point you've made.

Cars are cars, even when the cars are 500kg heavier than an average car, or when the front of the car stops you from seeing small children in front of you thus creating danger… I can assure you no one is jealous of a Panzer tank driving down Belmont Ave.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2022/08/17/restrictions-to-stop-suv-drivers-mounting-south-dublin-footpath-to-be-introduced/

Sorry, not my fault boards dropped me into this thread 4 months back 😀

But in the summer months I regularly drive either in bare feet, or socks if it's a long trip and the feet will stink up 🙂

The only practical reason I've ever seen for driving in shoes was to be able to apply more force to the brake. But that reason doesn't apply to any car with servo-assisted brakes.

Much safer to drive bare/sock foot than in flip flops/sliders/sandals.

A couple of points………

1. Firstly, the length of the journey has SFA to do with how big of a car you need. If I'm driving to Cork, on my own, I can do it in a smart car no problem. If I'm driving to Ranelagh with a crapload of tools and equipment, I'd need a bigger car. Distance doesn't come into it. Your FACTS are anything but. You are justifying your made-up fantasies by using irrelevant datasets. Talking bollocks, as it's known colloquially.
2. Secondly, averages schmaverages……..even if the average journey is Xkm, that doesn't mean you can say for certainty that any particular car isn't doing 10X or even 20Xkm. Anyone with any decent grasp of maths knows that using averages is a fool's errand. Here's a quick example……on average, people have approximately 0.9 testicles. I'd be willing to bet that there is a statistically irrelevant number of people on the planet who match that exactly. Using averages is unscientific, desite your assertion that it is fact.
3. "Personal blather"………..All I did was ask you why you said what you said, and you got the hump. You said that car is unnecessarily large and have provided the square root of fcuk all to justify that statement. In fact you've avoided saying anything to back it up, until now, and, as we've already seen, your justification falls at the first hurdle. I stand by my original point that you made it up in your own head. You've done it multiple times now, including accusing me of driving a 4x4 and by claiming that nobody in Ranelagh ever drives outside the city. Again, making sh1t up to bolster your point is a sure sign that you haven't got a point to begin with and are losing the argument.

Keep throwing your toys out of the pram though, it lets everyone else know that you're full of it.

You people need to start driving 4x4's less and reading more (news articles).. what was the other phrase that caused you lot to get all giddy? Ah yes, SUV arms war.. Now have never heard of SUV's referred to as Panzers?

Here's a nice picture to illustrate where the idea came from:

You don't know what is going on in peoples lives. She might have a boyfriend in prison being raped and terrorised by his cellmates. She might need a big car to visit her boyfriend at the week ends.

That. Was. The Whole. Point. Of. That. Statement.

It's supposed to be a stupid statement. It's illustrative of just how fcuking stupid your argument about driving distances is.

But let's call a spade a spade here….that's not why you stopped reading. You stopped reading because you have no comeback to my post. We're back now to refusing to address points made to you because they're stupid and not, y'know, because you can't actually counter them, due to the fact that your entire argument is built on a hill of sand. You're making ridiculous logical leaps, accusing others of things that aren't true, making sh1t up in your own head to justify your contempt for your fellow countrymen and now you're calling for the thread to be locked.

That's because you're losing the argument, nothing more. You can pretend it's because the level of discourse has dropped, but we can all see through that charade. Check and mate.

The truth is you've no idea how large a car anyone needs and instead of admitting that, you're trying to dig your way out of a hole that you created for yourself. You're {this} close to claiming the entire thing is beneath you and running away from the thread because, again, you don't know WTF you're talking about and pretending that you do.

Desperate stuff altogether.

Everyone seems selfish driving big fat mostly empty cars when they could use public transport or car share or use bikes or just walk ( I see people driving just 400 meter even though easily walkable distance, and they are very well able to, but won't cuz of their selfish behaviour).... So do you also walk when you can? Or are you selfish like everyone else seems to be?

you show your snobbery

Oh really, snobbery. Who was it that said:

You people need to start driving 4x4's less and reading more (news articles)

I explained where I got the Panzer/SUV comparison from

And I explained why it's ridiculous. Your "explanation" did nothing to rebut how silly a comparison it is.

Details about the type of vehicle involved in crashes like this can take a while to come out.

Don't bother quoting me, i prob won't read it.

It's easier to stick your fingers in your ears and tell yourself you're right.

too big/heavy for the streets of any Irish city/town/village

This is simply made up nonsense by someone who clearly has an agenda they don't wish to have questioned.

What's the point of this post, other than to try and tug on heartstrings? What are you actually saying here, because it looks like nothing more than an appeal to emotion?…………………."oh, look, this poor boy was killed by an SUV therefore they're evil and anyone who says anything else is okay with toddlers being mown down, cos, I mean, nobody is okay with dead babies, right…RIGHT!!!!?!!"

Intellectual dishonesty seems to be the order of the day.

Are you claiming he'd still be alive if this wasn't an SUV? How did you come to that conclusion, if so and, if not, what are you actually saying?

Also, what other details are you expecting to come out, given it was three years ago now? And what has it got to do with the post you quoted?

His point is that the height of these vehicles make harder to see smaller at risk pedestrians (Kids) the closer they are to the vehicle.

If it had been a micra they might have actually seen the child as a giant tank like SUV doesn't tower a few extra feet over small at risk pedestrians.

This is partucularly accurate at parking outside Supermarkets where people will be walking in close proximity to the vehicle.

If it had been a micra 

Are Nissan Micra's much use as a farm vehicle? Do they market them as a farm vehicle?

If not, then that doesn't make any sense.

as a giant tank like SUV 

More of the desperate hyperbole. There are a number of articles telling us the make and model; it categorically wasn't a "giant tank". but hey, why let facts get in the way of some obfuscation.

What if it was a "Panzer tank" ?…..