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Renault will increase its SUV crossover range to three models by the end of the decade to supplement the Korean-built Koleos, which reaches showrooms in July this year.
“We are developing a range of SUV crossovers and the Koleos sits right bang in the middle,” said the company’s vice president of design, Patrick Le Quement. “There will be an addition to the Megane range, when the new cars arrive over the next 18-months. A bigger brother for the Koleos is something we are looking at.”
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I don't suppose the endless launches of SUV's and 4x4's and their market share proliferation and success in the sales charts (ie. popularity) has any impact on anti-car extremists like Ken 'Chelsea Tractor' Livingstone? 

Is popularity amoung the civilian population a sign you should shut up and change your opinions or does it just make the monkey on their backs larger?

Like banning smoking, taxing CO2  and ranting about 4x4's it just makes the population 'propoganda-pissed' and actually hardens our resolve, not to mention make it 'sexier' and naughtier, to do what your told not to. I've actually got to the stage of wanting a large 4x4 just to stick as bigger object as possible up the noses of these ignorant interfering puritans.

I think the new BMW X6 is beginning to tug on my heart strings, calling me to the cause and looking ever sexier as these ranting idiots shout ever louder 'it's wrong, it's selfish'... quite frankly my dears, Up Yours, I don't give a damn.