Buck the trend, get a proper car and don’t follow the SUV lemmings
Dunno if you’ve noticed, but many of the major car manufacturers have stopped making saloon cars; Ford only sell the Mustang as a World car, the Fiesta, Focus and Mondeo are no longer available, even the EcoSport has been discontinued. There’s a reason why – nobody’s buying them.
My experience as a cyclist of Qashquai drivers having no idea where they are on the road and struggling to follow a predictable driving line is reflected well in this thread.
This seems to be a general SUV issue, Rangerovers, Tiguans, Kadjars, etc etc always seem to be barreling along the middle of the road
Might be partly due to the woeful condition of most of the nation’s roads, drivers are trying to avoid destroying wheels and tyres through hitting huge craters around road furniture like drains and manhole covers.
Also, many have fairly short front-ends, with a sharp drop-off, making it difficult to actually see where the front corners actually are – my EcoSport is like that, it’s really hard to tell where the corners are on narrow roads and lanes, there might as well be nothing further forward than the bottom edge of the ‘screen.
Having destroyed two alloys and tyres on my Octavia through hitting deep water-filled holes no more than 18”- 2’ away from the kerb on main roads, and just missed similar many other times, I’m not sodding surprised, it’s what I do!
Now, if I owned a big 4×4 with big, high-volume off-road tyres, I wouldn’t give a toss, but I’ve got Cross Climates on each corner, and I can’t afford to trash them on HM Governments shitty roads.
