Six out of 10 folks consider that drivers of 4x4s and different massive automobiles ought to pay extra to park in metropolis centres, in line with new analysis.

April’s Startline Used Automobile Tracker additionally reveals that 37% say such autos are too large for metropolis streets and the identical proportion that they’re too polluting.

And simply over a fifth (22%) assume that charging more cash will assist to dissuade drivers from bringing these autos into city areas.

Paul Burgess, CEO at Startline Motor Finance, mentioned: “We requested this query following information that parking expenses in Paris have been trebled for any car weighing greater than 1.6 tonnes and wished to see whether or not there was an urge for food for related strikes right here within the UK.

“The reply very a lot seems to be sure, with a robust majority believing that drivers of huge 4x4s and different massive automobiles must be paying extra. There appears to be a reasonably frequent view that they’re outsized and customarily unpopular.”

Nevertheless, 28% of these surveyed consider that each one non-public automobiles must be handled the identical in cities, 15% that parking areas must be made greater for all automobiles, and 11% that greater expenses gained’t have an effect on these drivers.

Burgess added: “It’s an affordable level to make that anybody who can afford to be driving a automobile of that dimension might have much less of a difficulty with paying greater parking charges. Nevertheless, the responses in our analysis do elevate a wider query concerning the diploma to which these automobiles could also be seen much less favourably to be used in cities.”

The Startline Used Automobile Tracker is compiled month-to-month for Startline Motor Finance by APD International Analysis. This time, 302 shoppers and 64 sellers have been questioned.