The Audi A4 RS station wagon is 4.78 meters long.
The Audi Q5 SUV is 4.66 meters long.
The Mercedes GLA SUV is 4.10 meters long.
The Mercedes C-Class station wagon is 4.75 meters long.
So, there is a discussion in urbanized areas of Germany (most notably, big cities like Hamburg or Dusseldorf)....that they seek to punish SUV owners by increasing parking fees or limiting access.
After you sit for a while and analyze this discussion....you come to realize that station wagons (for virtually all models like BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Ford, VW)....are longer than SUVs.
Do Germans grasp this? I personally doubt it.
It is this odd public frustration building up....the anti-SUV agenda....without much basis for reality.
I've never owned a SUV. Maybe on four occasions (particularly those trips in New Zealand and Iceland)....I went to rent the medium to large body SUVs. All I can really say....you have more of a view because of the height of the vehicle. Tougher to drive? No...but here....I have those three to four years of dump truck use....to balance my view upon.
The news media helping to convey this agenda? That's the comical side of this. You could easily have a segment where you take a tape measure and ask a German to measure both a SUV and a station wagon....then to realize this is a stupid argument to engage upon. Instead, they do nothing but report the agenda underway.
In a dozen years, I could easily see a new German agenda arriving....to suggest that no vehicle be more than 1.75 meters wide (the size of a VW Polo....a fairly small narrow vehicle)....saying that it's a terrible waste of a 2-meters wide vehicle to exist.
It is just a funny argument to waste time upon.
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