Why the thought police have a go at people for this I don't understand. whine whine whine.
If you drive without pissing people off, and don't mind paying for higher fuel costs etc so what if you have a 4x4x for the school run and you have just the one child. If I want something thats big and safe so what! Also bollocks to enviro aurguments as some 4x4's are no more enviro unfriendly than a golf GTI (thinking Q5 2.0T here that has the same engine as the GTI). Why don't people get upset tossers who steal your car or drive on drugs or with no insurance for the 43nd time and get let off again. Or what about the tossers who drive at 50mph in a 30 residental area. It's not the car, it's the people who drive them.