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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I could be very off base by this comment, but I get the impression that the English tend to rely more on specialization than Americans. My imagination has this idea that if you are English and need bread, you go to the bakery to get a loaf. If you are English and need furniture moved, you hire movers to do it.
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Less and less so for shops - we have Tesco - think Wallmart but much much more predatory... Specialist shops are becoming very rare, city high streets (aka Main Streets) are being swept away here as they are in the US.
Moving stuff depends, if you can do it yourself you get (or borrow) a van - Transit sized. If bigger then get a "Man with a Van" to help, or then if even bigger get a mover. Its not (for example) a weekly thing so we don't go buy a van or a pickup just in case.
Crew-cab type pickups became popular a few years ago but that was because they could be treated as a business vehicle for tax reasons - amazing how many people suddenly had their own business which seemed not to do much other than own a vehicle...
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Originally Posted by Various on SUVs
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My joke was intended to be on myself.
I've commented on "why do Americans need a Pickup Truck when nowhere else in the world feels the need" before (e.g. just above). And now I have my own fuel guzzling road ship which only has me in it 5 days out of 7.
There are other reasons, some sensible and some women style. Sensible - I intend to keep it for a while (costs willing) so it needs to be able to last and be "interesting", we needed something bigger and it is bigger, and it is AWD so when the snow comes back it should be OK (other option was a BMW 5 series which I would stack into a wall when the snow hits). Its also done all of it's depreciation and someone else has paid for that.
The women style reasons - it looks good, it is very nice inside, has toys and I've kind of wanted an A6 for ages.
First trip to work today. On the SG2 it registered about 23 MPG in very heavy stop start traffic, the on board said 38. I think without the stops and starts and periods of sitting in jams I could get it to mid-40s.
The SG2 is still reporting colonial gallons and needing to be calibrated (may take a while on a tank this size - hopefully). Remaining tank range is still in the 580-600 range and I've done 60 from this tank already.
Maybe a Kilo-tank would be a good aim.