Gas-guzzling SUVs or sports cars as well as people carriers could be “priced off the road within five years”, according to the Daily Telegraph after a crackdown on carbon emissions to be announced by the European Commission.
The average new car in 2012 will have to emit no more than 120 grams of carbon per kilometre [...]

Gas-guzzling “Chelsea Tractors” or SUVs have suffered a sudden decline in sales after a succession of threatened tax rises, The Times reports today. Existing owners of 4×4s are facing substantial losses because the second-hand value of the vehicles has also dropped significantly.
Sales of new 4×4s fell by more than 15 per cent last month compared [...]

In London they are known as “Chelsea tractors” or 4X4s and in America as SUVs. Whatever you want to call them, the mayor of London has them in his sights. He has already called people who drive them “idiots”.
Yesterday Ken Livingstone yesterday unveiled plans to charge the highest polluting vehicles £25 a day to drive [...]

Car manufacturers in Europe were given a severe warning from the European Commission yesterday that they face stringent new laws if they fail to live up to their commitments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

McDonalds may be giving away free Hummer models to kids, but sales of SUVs (4×4s) in America have slumped 28 per cent in the last year. Now for the first time in recent years, SUV sales are now beginning to slow down in the UK. It may mean our love affair with gas-guzzling cars is [...]