Potter wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:49 am
if you're used to the comfort of a decent car then a van will feel medieval.
Mmmmm i'd rather drive/sit in the Transit for 10 hours than any other car i've been in. Admittedly i've not driven £100k cars... but it's not a £100k van either
Sure the car handles better, accellerates better... but comfort, i'll take the Transit.
On the driving side of things the space and height are my preferences over a car, however luxurious. I can't remember the last time I drove a car for longer than about 30 minutes, several years ago I would think.
weeksy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:53 am
Sure the car handles better, accellerates better...
My Kombi has a 204hp motor and will do 0-60 in around 8 seconds, lowered with Bilsteins all round it handles OK'ish. It's the T32 variant so has brakes to match.
Potter wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:49 am
if you're used to the comfort of a decent car then a van will feel medieval.
Mmmmm i'd rather drive/sit in the Transit for 10 hours than any other car i've been in. Admittedly i've not driven £100k cars... but it's not a £100k van either
Sure the car handles better, accellerates better... but comfort, i'll take the Transit.
We liked our Transit, but it doesn't compere to a luxury car, it's night and day. Our Puma Defender is basically a Transit van, it has Transit seats, Transit engine, etc, and it's perfectly comfortable for all day long driving, but then you get into the Range Rover and the difference is immediately massively noticeable.
It depends what the Pony is used to I suppose.
I found the opposite, I went from a top spec Transit to a top spec Jag registered the same year and most of the time I'd rather be driving the Transit.
The Jeep was nicer to drive than both so maybe there's something in that SUV thing.
I was happy to drive 10 or 12 hour days in my old Transit camper can. The miles just slipped by.
My car at time was Audi TT. Awesome fun but not designed for long journeys.
I'm on my phone so can't put pics up but will do when I'm back on the laptop.
It's nice to drive. Really high up. I was having a great time flashing the proper waggons in and out on the motorway on the way home. Like I was an actual lorry driver. What a twit!
MyLittleStudPony wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:02 pm
I'm on my phone so can't put pics up but will do when I'm back on the laptop.
It's nice to drive. Really high up. I was having a great time flashing the proper waggons in and out on the motorway on the way home. Like I was an actual lorry driver. What a twit!
You're nobody until you've done your first elephant race.
MyLittleStudPony wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:02 pm
I'm on my phone so can't put pics up but will do when I'm back on the laptop.
It's nice to drive. Really high up. I was having a great time flashing the proper waggons in and out on the motorway on the way home. Like I was an actual lorry driver. What a twit!
You're nobody until you've done your first elephant race.
I prefer the original Japanese name for it. The dubblefukyu.
Potter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:59 pm
It appears that we're not in Kansas anymore and I hate to mix my fantasy literature but I am Alice Pleasance Liddell and RTTL is the rabbit hole where The Pony, the Burberry cap wearing, JDM Supra driving real deal badboy of the internets has morphed into a white van man that drives a hybrid taxi for his daily bread
I had two T5s (both bloody noisy and unreliable) (and expensive). Then a nicely species 5 series estate, a 7 series, then two Trafics. Which are a lovely drive cheap to run and I'd have another. But: i wouldn't own one more than say 5 years old, no reason probably other than prejudice. They've both been (touches wood) totally reliable. Both and the T5s bought new. Ply lining kit cost about £250 installed and it was a weekend's easy work to carpet everything inside. Didn't bother to do this with the second renault - it made little difference to the noise and compared to the vwdub (and plenty other things) they're quiet. The later van has the 3.0 ltr engine which is quieter, smoother, and pulls better.
Insurance has double twice in two years pretty much.
I had two T5s (both bloody noisy and unreliable) (and expensive). Then a nicely specced 5 series estate, a 7 series, then two Trafics. Which are a lovely drive cheap to run and I'd have another. But: i wouldn't own one more than say 5 years old, no reason probably other than prejudice. They've both been (touches wood) totally reliable. Both and the T5s bought new. Ply lining kit cost about £250 installed and it was a weekend's easy work to carpet everything inside. Didn't bother to do this with the second renault - it made little difference to the noise and compared to the vwdub (and plenty other things) they're quiet. The later van has the 3.0 ltr engine which is quieter, smoother, and pulls better.
Insurance has double twice in two years pretty much.
Potter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:59 pm
It appears that we're not in Kansas anymore and I hate to mix my fantasy literature but I am Alice Pleasance Liddell and RTTL is the rabbit hole where The Pony, the Burberry cap wearing, JDM Supra driving real deal badboy of the internets has morphed into a white van man that drives a hybrid taxi for his daily bread
We all get old and boring at some point Pony
The van is black. I will get some photos at some point.
I'm a scrimping millionaire. But just not a millionaire.
