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And then you proceed to prove the point.

No, I'm stating it.

Audi 1.8T, Chrysler Grand Voyager, Ford Galaxy,

Why? Becuase you say so? And what is "a sensible car"? One you personally approve of?

And they are a decent multi-purpose vehicle that rides well, has an excellent design for load carrying and that has a reputation for reliability second to none.

Is a pile of poo with none of the above characteristics.

No it doesn't, it starts at £15,290.

36 mpg.

49.6mpg is the highest "official" figure and that diesel vectra costs £17,000 give or take a few pence.

No, that's 11.2 seconds for the cheapest petrol engined Vectra at £15,290.

14.8s to 60.

You appear to have missed something out above, but if you intend to comparing it with the cheapest Vectra and *gasp* the Vectra is slower in both petrol and diesel versions.

And the car is still pooe, performance has f*** all to do with how "good" a vehicle is for the environment and you've just proved that there's f*** all difference in the potential environmental impact in real terms between a really pooe car and a quite useful "ute".

And none of what you wrote matters a pee in a bucket because the potential to pollute is not the true environmental impact of a vehcile. The environmental impact is dependent not only on the paper figure but on real world use of that vehicle.

You've also proved the original point, you've been brainwashed by inumerate f***wits.

SUVs accounted for 7% of all vehicle sales last year, an all time high. Cars account for about 15% of the total emissions of CO2 in the UK (varies a little depending on whom you believe). So buttuming the absolute worst possible, the SUVs on the road account for 7% of 15% of the nation's CO2 emissions, i.e. 1%. So if we scrap all SUVs today and ban their drivers from ever owning another vehicle, it will result in a 1% maximum rediuction in CO2 emissions.

I'll spell that out for you since you seem to be hard of thinking, less than 1%, so little that it would not even register. And of course it wouldn't even be that high, because people will swap to another car. Say they are "sensible" and choose a Vectra diesel Estate to replace the (witht he same load-lugging ability) is 4-190= 2%, which means that the national savings to be expected by such a change would be 0.02%.

So, like all the other braying donkeys of your particular persuasion, your claims that SUVs are "bad for the environment" is utter, puerile, f***witted twaddle.

-- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759