Thursday, 10. June 2004

Topic: CARS - on June 10, 2004 at 8:51:00 PM CEST

Paris bid to ban designer jeeps

Bulky, gas-guzzling sports utility vehicles (SUVs) could be banned from the chic but traffic-clogged streets of Paris within 18 months following a resolution passed by the city council.

Denis Baupin, a leading Green party councilor who tabled the resolution, says the designer jeeps are "not suited to towns" and he could not understand why people drove the fashionable "off-roaders.

cnn

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