Pity SUV drivers, fast being priced out of their badges of contempt for the planet | Catherine Bennett

With the royals as ambassadors for these luxury cars, there's little hope for the rest of usIf you have tears - that is, any not used up on MPs struggling to get by, parents forced to choose between skiing and private schools, second homeowners who feel unwelcome, Etonians shut out of Oxbridge, and people cut adrift with unusable city wood burners - prepare to shed them on the latest affluent but afflicted minority: Range Rover owners unable afford their car insurance.Thanks in large part to the Daily Mail, which has been prioritising their plight, a series of distressing cases has recently come to light. One owner, it reports, gave up after being quoted ?14,000 to insure his ?100,000 Range Rover Sport, and instead "bought himself a new Mercedes GLE". Insurers, who say the vehicles are too likely to be stolen, seem to be deaf to the suffering of owners whose only fault was to buy an obese status symbol coveted by many hard-working criminals, as well as by Prince Andrew. Continue reading...