Occupant/luggage weight before GVW is breached: 590kg.

The latter offence risks a further three to six penalty points for ‘driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence’. Anyone loading them above 3,500kg would be breaking the law twice: once for exceeding the cars’ GVW, and once for driving a vehicle that’s heavier than their licence allows them to drive. Loading these cars above those gross limits would be breaking the law, with drivers risking a fine of £300 and three penalty points. It is illegal to drive cars loaded above their GVW, meaning five 120kg adults would make both cars too heavy to drive.

In fact, drivers would be breaking the law before they breached the 3.5-tonne mark: BMW says the gross permitted vehicle weight (GVW) for the XM is 3,300kg while the GLS 600’s GVW is 3,250kg. The BMW XM is one of the heaviest cars on the market Adding five occupants each weighing 120kg (18st 12lb) would bring these vehicles’ gross weights to 3,310kg, leaving only 190kg of luggage allowance (this could be exceeded if three St Bernard dogs were put in the boot) before the cars became illegal to drive on a car driving licence. The BMW XM and Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 both tip the scales at 2,710kg. These are entry-level HGV (heavy goods vehicle) licences, requiring a separate driving test and allowing motorists to drive vehicles weighing up to 7.5 tonnes. Instead, a Category C1 driving licence would be needed. The heaviest SUVs on sale today weigh over 2.7 tonnes, but by adding four passengers and their luggage these vehicles could weigh over 3.5 tonnes, at which point a normal ‘Category B’ car driving licence becomes invalid. Car driving licences only valid for up to 3.5 tonnesĭrivers of the heaviest SUVs could unwittingly break the law if they load their vehicles up with heavy occupants and luggage, a carwow investigation has found.Passengers and luggage could push that to 3.5 tonnes.

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