4x4s 'should carry health warning'

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    Four-wheel-drive vehicles, those rugged beasts designed for the open hillside but more commonly found doing the city school run, are so polluting and dangerous that they should carry a cigarette packet-style health warning.

    That is the view of UK think tank the New Economics Foundation, which outlines its arguments about the vehicles - also known as Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) - in the magazine New Statesman.

    "They're really Satan's little run-around," NEF's policy director, Andrew Simms, told BBC News.

    (For full article, click HERE)