I agree, I have an estate Passat that's massive. It's just that people now 'NEED' SUVs etc that I find quite funny.
Where as 99% of people could easily cope with a standard hatchback.
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I agree, I have an estate Passat that's massive. It's just that people now 'NEED' SUVs etc that I find quite funny.
Where as 99% of people could easily cope with a standard hatchback.
Given the tax loophole has now been closed and you can't treat them as vans for BIK purposes anymore, I expect we'll see a lot less pickups in future as people swap back to small or medium vans (if they actually needed any level of utility from it) or even back to normal cars with half decent BIK rates like some of the newer PHEVs with longer EV ranges
We always had a pickup when I was growing up as my dad was an electrcial engineer. As the motors he collected for rewinding were often lifted on with a hoist a pickup was the only sensible option. Honestly, I thought they were great but this was at the time where pickup didn't have to equal 'off road' so his were 2WD standard ride height, single cab jobbies.
Family in our 'hood own a Hyundai i10. They recently had a kid, and now drive a Santa Fe. I mean, how much ******** does that kid do if that's how many nappies they need to carry
I thought the Gov back peddled on that change?
I think they re-pedalled after the backpedalling last year, so as of April double cap pick ups are being classed as cars not vans, unless i've missed another u-turn?
I think they re-pedalled after the backpedalling last year, so as of April double cap pick ups are being classed as cars not vans, unless i've missed another u-turn?
For BIK but not for other things :s
It's the BIK changes that i'd expect to change behaviours most though, given how extreme the change is when you treat them as a car - all those people (and companies) who simply had them as a cheap alternative to a company car will be choosing to go with a genuine van next time around or move to something electric to avoid ridiculous BIK figures (or not have a company vehicle).
People who actually find them the most suitable vehicle for their needs will no doubt keep buying them but the market is going to shrink massively i'd have thought.
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The pick-ups fitted with a snorkel make me laugh.
To be fair in the storms early this year I wouldn't have said no to a snorkel and unfortunately my pickup was out of action at the time due to needing a part which was annoyingly bad timing. Unfortunately didn't keep footage of the worst of it and at night as well so doesn't show up well:
And that was the main road - some of the back roads were deeper.
Bit of a screw up on my part there though as it regularly floods there but the right hand side of the road is rarely more than 1-2 inches deep - it didn't look too bad in the dark until I'd entered the water and realise it was half way up my wheels - but used that image as it illustrates it better.
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There seems to be a strange correlation around here, between the bigger the SUV the smaller and blonder the woman driving it.
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I’m confused why a Qashqai is being referenced as some sort of large car when it’s not.
If referring to my comment I was just saying that 360 cameras and all-around parking sensors make parking larger cars so much easier these days and aside from dealing with very tight angles/spaces not that harder than a smaller car - not equating the Qashqai with a barge.
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Well that’s how it read…
Sure there is more than one possible way to interpret what I wrote, but that it was comparing a Qashqai to a barge is a less likely one than it being about the merits of having parking assistance and reducing the effect of the vehicle size in the equation.
Motor mftr employees have some truck with new tax policies too .. didn't realise there was a completely different company car ownership tax setup/regime the chancellor is apparently revising for 26
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now understand how neighbours working for german mftrs have some nice deals, driving models above the normal salary sacrifice ranges for salary levels.
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Employee Car Ownership Schemes (ECOS) have long been a “trademark” of the automotive sector, delivering a high-value, low-cost benefit.
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now understand how neighbours working for german mftrs have some nice deals, driving models above the normal salary sacrifice ranges for salary levels.
Kei trucks are cool but I'd feel way too exposed on UK roads these days with the poor standards of driving. As I've mentioned before while it isn't a magic bullet but I do notice an appreciable difference in other drivers attitudes around me when I'm driving my big looking (the bars, etc. make it look bigger than it is) black pickup vs regular cars - far less people will pull out in front of me, etc. etc.