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Tcoat · 04-13-2021, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by JD001

Are you nuts?? 400miles a day!! Not good for your well-being.

Europeans (that includes the UK) don't always grasp how common it is to drive hundreds of miles a day over here. I used to do 250 miles two or three days a week with the old FRS. Didn't even think anything of it since it was just part of the job. When the your country only a few hundred miles across the whole idea of what is a long distance get's a bit skewed.

Hell the very tip of Canada is bigger than the whole UK!

spcmafia · 04-13-2021, 02:22 PM

Notice how most of the vehicles reported on the thread are GM/FIAT/Ford group......

JD001 · 04-13-2021, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I sometimes do more than that on a weekend day just to visit a family member for a few hours, or to meander through the mountains but sleep in my own bed that night.

Example, it is 243 miles one-way, between my son's house and ours. We'll make a day of it, leave early, get there late morning, spend the afternoon through dinner with the family, then drive home.

I consider it very good for my well-being....

I used to drive 2.5hrs each way to work, every day.. distance about 150miles each way but more than half was on country lanes.. good fun but tiring and then having to do a day's work.. Totally knackered come Friday evening!

Doing nice long drives for your own personal pleasure, not a bad thing but for work, that's a different story.

JD001 · 04-13-2021, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Tcoat

Europeans (that includes the UK) don't always grasp how common it is to drive hundreds of miles a day over here. I used to do 250 miles two or three days a week with the old FRS. Didn't even think anything of it since it was just part of the job. When the your country only a few hundred miles across the whole idea of what is a long distance get's a bit skewed.

Hell the very tip of Canada is bigger than the whole UK!

Driving conditions, types of roads and distances that you guys cover is not comparable to what we have. Our roads are smaller, never straight (we kicked out the guys who tried building in straight lines) and then the volume of people condensed into such a small area doesn't make driving relaxing!

Tcoat · 04-13-2021, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by JD001

Driving conditions, types of roads and distances that you guys cover is not comparable to what we have. Our roads are smaller, never straight (we kicked out the guys who tried building in straight lines) and then the volume of people condensed into such a small area doesn't make driving relaxing!

Yes to all that! There is nothing like driving down a road that the Romans built and then for a couple of thousand years following that people just kept building closer and closer to them!

JD001 · 04-13-2021, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Tcoat

Yes to all that! There is nothing like driving down a road that the Romans built and then for a couple of thousand years following that people just kept building closer and closer to them!

We still have the straight stuff and then suddenly we get squiggly bits..lots of squiggly bits.. And then we get lots of single track with passing places.. all done with great taste, consideration and pride..

BrahmaBull1990 · 04-13-2021, 05:09 PM

I stopped for a guy stalled in the road on a city street and helped him push his car out of the way. He had just left the mechanic that “fixed it.” So I gave him a lift back there since it was only a couple blocks way. I hope he got a free tow from them...

Lantanafrs2 · 04-13-2021, 05:30 PM

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Dadhawk · 04-13-2021, 09:10 PM

Does this count? Saw it happen. He was at stop light, light turn green, he dumps his tank. This is right outside the county jail fence in the background.

FR-S2GT86 · 04-14-2021, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by BrahmaBull1990

I stopped for a guy stalled in the road on a city street and helped him push his car out of the way. He had just left the mechanic that “fixed it.” So I gave him a lift back there since it was only a couple blocks way. I hope he got a free tow from them...

So what type of car was it?

FR-S2GT86 · 04-14-2021, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by spcmafia

Notice how most of the vehicles reported on the thread are GM/FIAT/Ford group......

Yes, it is rather interesting. I hope you're not insinuating that I'm being biased, because I am not. I'm reporting on every vehicle make that I can recognize. Anyone is free to post their results here. Refer to the first post in this thread.

FR-S2GT86 · 04-14-2021, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Does this count? Saw it happen. He was at stop light, light turn green, he dumps his tank. This is right outside the county jail fence in the background.

Accidents and tractor trailers have been excluded in this information gathering project.

Dadhawk · 04-14-2021, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by FR-S2GT86

Accidents and tractor trailers have been excluded in this information gathering project.

Not really an accident, he was broken down, but point taken.

Dadhawk · 04-14-2021, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by FR-S2GT86

Yes, it is rather interesting. I hope you're not insinuating that I'm being biased, because I am not. I'm reporting on every vehicle make that I can recognize. Anyone is free to post their results here. Refer to the first post in this thread.

Well, two of the three are the most common cars no the road in the US.

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