//We don't need large 4x4s driven on our roads.//

I think she imagines that all our roads are just as nice and smooth and tarred as the one she drives on because she's never been outside the city, and apparently nobody has told her that things are different in less urbanised environments and 4WDs are frequently a necessity to get where you want to go.

//So are you all really against improving the safety on our roads for your families and others?//

Do you really think that forcing everybody to drive 2WDs, even on roads that are only suitable for 4WDs, constitutes 'improving safety'?

Maybe we should make firetrucks 2WDs (and a lot smaller as well). That should all make us much safer, right? Except for when we get incinerated...

4WDs are 4WDs for a reason. It's so they can go places 2WDs can't. If you don't think people should be going to those places, then you need to explain why instead of just whining about health & safety.

In a 4x4 crash the driver walked away from the school-room.
In a van crash , all the kids walk away from the school-room.

nicknamenick,

What BS!

Light construction walls are very easily penetrated. By far the most common vehicle doing that and disappearing inside at the same time, would be ordinary compact four cylinder hatchbacks and sedans that have superb power to weight ratio, are very nippy and are so often through cheapness even where new, in the hands of inexperienced and Sunday drivers.

Just Google for the hundreds of photos of small front wheel drives that have been buried entirely inside houses and businesses and sometimes catching fire. The headline, 'hatchback at the dinner table or on the double bed' isn't as welcome to the editor as an ordinary people carrier, a 2WD Kluger (some are AWD, none are 4WD) described as a 'Four Wheel drive'.

Honestly, the media play so many games with public, yanking their chains with the negative stereotypes invented by the 'meeja' and scurrilous politicial animals. Talk about 'false news', the question is 'What isn't?'.

However, a van is not nice for the driver , Kluger is.
An Impreza hatchback has 320Nm and weighs 1.3 tons , total force 416 units.
Kluger has 337Nm weighs 1.9 tons , total 640 units of whammy crash or one and a half ground zero .

I'm told that, in a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado here in Adelaide a few years back, when the poo-bah was making his List, of who to punish and, well, who to exterminate, the singer added 4WD drivers (I forget to which category). The audience broke into spontaneous, enthusiastic and sustained applause.

You know it makes sense.

He could have said

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