Six out of 10 individuals imagine that drivers of 4x4s and different giant vehicles ought to pay extra to park in metropolis centres, in keeping with new analysis.

April’s Startline Used Automotive Tracker additionally exhibits that 37% say such automobiles are too massive for metropolis streets and the identical share that they’re too polluting.

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

Paul Burgess, CEO at Startline Motor Finance, mentioned: “We requested this query following information that parking prices in Paris have been trebled for any car weighing greater than 1.6 tonnes and needed 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 giant vehicles ought to be paying extra. There appears to be a reasonably frequent view that they’re outsized and customarily unpopular.”

Nevertheless, 28% of these surveyed imagine that every one non-public vehicles ought to be handled the identical in cities, 15% that parking areas ought to be made greater for all vehicles, and 11% that greater prices 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 automotive of that dimension could 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 vehicles could also be considered much less favourably to be used in cities.”

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