Re: [DML] British Motoring versus American Motoring

[Kevin Abato <delorean@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
>
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