Cars are getting bigger – while parking space is becoming scarcer in many cities, not just in Paris, where citizens have just voted for higher parking fees for SUVs. What lies behind the tendency towards gigantism?
Too big, too heavy, too dirty – a lot can be said against urban pseudo-off-road vehicles, as popular as they are with car buyers. Now the citizens of Paris have voted by a narrow majority in favor of a deterrent measure: a drastic increase in parking fees should help keep the giant carts out of the city. Critics of this project speak of an attack on the freedom of the mobilists. But one thing is clear: California Dreaming? That was once.