So in case of an emergency where
you might have to leave the road to avoid an accident, the probability
of damaging your vehicles is less than with a normal car.
A friend of
mine drives a X-Trail. One evening on her way home from Hartebeespoortdam
to Pretoria, squatters placed rocks in the road. Her son in-law
was driving behind her with his Golf. As she came up the hill
she saw the rocks in the road but could not avoid it. She went
right over it and so did the car behind her. Because the X-Trail
is high there was almost no damage to the vehicle and she could
continue driving. The Golf was not that lucky, 500 metres further
it came to a stand still because the rocks ripped of the sump
and the engine seized.
If my friend
was driving a normal car she would not have been that lucky. The
model of the story is, do not worry if your friends call your
4x4 a shopping trolley because your 4x4 is a much saver vehicle
than their "flatcars".