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With all the excitement about kiddies being dropped off for school in 4WDs the size of herbivorous dinosaurs, those who drive them in the country seem to be getting off lightly. But why are they any more suitable or acceptable there? Most little cars will quite happily negotiate the long gravel drive of a big country house, at the end of which is ... a tarmacced road, just like the ones in the city. And if you're a farmer then you've got a tractor to pull heavy things around or drive over your fields.