Aggressively styled, tipping the scales at more than 2.2 tonnes, mega powerful and expensive, they love their fuel but are often conflated with more innocuous family crossover/SUVs, or even battery-electric SUVs. Yet the Super Sport Utility Vehicle is surely the most prominent Wanted: Dead Or Alive poster on the wall of the green party sheriff’s office and, by whatever reckoning, they are curious beasts. “I launch the Ami in Paris and they try to ban it.” “I just don’t think that environmentalists like the idea of individual mobility,” said Citroen boss Vincent Cobee recently. Coincidentally, but soon after, Brighton Green Party MP Caroline Lucas was interviewed on the radio attacking SUVs and calling for a chilling “behavioural change” with regard to what people drive. Last month a group of activists self-styled as the Tyre Extinguishers deflated tyres on a range of parked sport utility vehicles (SUVs) across 13 UK cities including London, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Bristol and Brighton.
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