They sure would nail my Towncar.
And the stoatmobile as well. Apparently they want everyone in the tiniest, least comfortable and least-safe car possible so that if you hit a cat with it and total the car, your massive injuries or death will provide an additional tax burden, which will justify their raising taxes again to pay for your needless injuries.
Our British Friends deserve far better than this insanity.......
A few things about having a town car over there, the size of the car would turn many heads, cars are small over there for two reasons, Gas prices and parking. Having said that it would probably take the price of the car to fill it up and you would be lucky to find a parking space on a street long enough to park it, especially if it was a down town area of Norwich.
“They sure would nail my Towncar.”
Another cultural differenceis that these kind of moves are not as unpopular over here as they would be over on your side of the pond. When I tried to mobilise my neighbours to get parking permits for residents where I used to live (rather than having to pay by the hour to park outside my home!) I hit a brick wall. It’s a consequence of the lack of space and population density. Our roads in the major cities were mainly built between 1700-1939. The width is set by the buildings on either side - you can’t go wider without knocking the buildings down. They are therefore about wide enough for horse and carts. Add to that people parking on each side of the street and your residential roads in cities become a nightmare to drive in, and a bigger nightmare to ever park in. You think there are a bunch of people who hate SUVs over there? You have nothing on the bile that is pushed in their direction from over here! However, despite the urge to buy one just to spite a greeny/lefty the reality is that they are stunningly impractical for general use in the UK unless you live in a rural area.
Also - we pay about $1.90 a litre for gas!