This is bias and inaccurate on so many levels, i won't even bother to document it. Kevin Abato vin# 16680 On Jan 13, 2012 10:43 PM, "content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've just returned from a 1,600 mile whirlwind driving tour of Great > Britain, during which I observed several differences that account for much > of the online confusion between American DML users and British DML users: > > 1) Whereas Americans hold on to cars for an average of more than 10 years > now, British automobiles more than 5 or 6 years old are quite rare (cars > with visible body damage, especially rust damage, are even rarer). British > cars also accumulate fewer miles than American cars. It is basically a > country of recently manufactured low mileage automobiles. > > 2) British MPG calculations need to be reduced 20% to yield comparable > American equivalents (the British gallon is 160 oz). The Brits also don't > adulterate their gas with grain alcohol, which reduces MPG at least 5% > further. > > 3) British gas currently costs about $8.70 per US gallon. > > 4) The curviness (and hilliness) of British roads is indescribable. They > are 10 times worse than West Virginian roads. No joke -- plan on averaging > 35 MPH (you are continually accelerating and braking at intervals often > measured in fractions of a second). Their Motorways are more or less > comparable to Interstate highways, but they only cover a small fraction of > an already small country. > > 5) British road signage is less than inadequate. > > 6) Brits have yet to discover pay at the pump. > > 7) Run flat tires must have been developed for British use, because their > roads have no shoulders whatsoever (9 times out of 10 the pavement is > bordered by a stone wall, or it just drops off the side of a cliff (or into > a lake/loch). > > 8) A sign on the A5092 advertises 740 deaths in the past 5 years, which is > pretty phenomenal for a 10 mile stretch of pavement, so I looked up British > road fatalities per 1,000 square miles (20.5) versus US road fatalities per > 1,000 miles (8.64). Given the comparatively shorter distances Brits drive, > they are slaughtering themselves on their roads at a frightening pace. > > 9) Brits do not drive pickup trucks. > > I'm sure I could think of more, but jet lag is kicking my butt, so I am > going to bed. Bottom line: until British DML users come over here and > experience American motoring first hand, of course everything we do on this > side of the pond is going to seem weird and inexplicable. > > Bill Robertson > #5939 > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: > moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx > > For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see > www.dmcnews.com > > To search the archives or view files, log in at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnewsYahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnewsYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/