12/02/19 - Cars

Do you own a car?

  • Yes, I have my own

    Votes: 6 25.0%

  • Yes, and I have multiple (not shared cars, literally 2+ that are yours)

    Votes: 7 29.2%

  • Yes, I share a car

    Votes: 1 4.2%

  • No, but i'm learning to drive

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • No, i'm not old enough to drive (sorry har1s)

    Votes: 1 4.2%

  • No, and i'm not learning to drive

    Votes: 1 4.2%

  • No, but i've done my test i just don't have a car at the moment

    Votes: 4 16.7%

  • I have a motorbike/quad bike/not a car but like a car (but not a bicycle)

    Votes: 1 4.2%
  • Total voters
    24
I am like TCL...  I also share two cars with one other person.  My wife and I have two American made gas guzzling beasts of steel.

A '14 Chevy Equinox (to lug the kids around / 26 mpg or so)

A '16 Chevy Cruze (mostly to go to and fro work / 36 mpg or so)

(I don't buy new, both were lease returns I got for good deals)

In less than 7 years, assuming no issues with vehicles, the Equinox will become my son's car when he turns 16 and we will buy something else (probably another Chevy vehicle).

In less than 9 years, assuming no issues with vehicles, the Cruze will become my daughter's car when she turns 16 and I will buy a very manly Chevy truck (because damn it, I want one...  for compensation purposes...)

Red

 
RedFive said:
I am like TCL...  I also share two cars with one other person.  My wife and I have two American made gas guzzling beasts of steel.

A '14 Chevy Equinox (to lug the kids around / 26 mpg or so)

A '16 Chevy Cruze (mostly to go to and fro work / 36 mpg or so)

(I don't buy new, both were lease returns I got for good deals)

In less than 7 years, assuming no issues with vehicles, the Equinox will become my son's car when he turns 16 and we will buy something else (probably another Chevy vehicle).

In less than 9 years, assuming no issues with vehicles, the Cruze will become my daughter's car when she turns 16 and I will buy a very manly Chevy truck (because damn it, I want one...  for compensation purposes...)

Red
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Wow thats awful mpg, I think my dads is close to 100mpg (new ish Toyota Auris i think?) and my mums is at least 50mpg. You can't even enter most of London with cars that consume that much fuel i'm pretty sure without paying loads of extra charges.

 
Hariff said:
Wow thats awful mpg, I think my dads is close to 100mpg (new ish Toyota Auris i think?) and my mums is at least 50mpg. You can't even enter most of London with cars that consume that much fuel i'm pretty sure without paying loads of extra charges.
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Why would you drive into London 😂 

 
Hariff said:
Wow thats awful mpg
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There are interesting articles about automobile sales and why there is a disparity in markets...  you can largely blame taxes, regulations/testing, consumer preferences, and purchasing decisions.  The short of it is, in Europe, many customers can't afford a gas guzzling beast of steel the way an American would drive a car because they wouldn't be able to afford the gas given the far higher price of gas due to higher taxes in most European countries compared to America (averaging something like four times the price).  Further, European regulations often dictate higher performance standards as well, certainly more aggressive than all American regulations (even California liberal policies are considered "behind the times" compared to European policies and they are the most progressive of all American regulations on automobiles).  Lastly, given the combination of higher public transportation (as Mitsu graciously indicated above) and different cultural priorities where people are much more likely to live closer to where they work compared to Americans, it further lessens the need for personally owned automobiles.  This all helps to tell the story why Europe and personally owned vehicles are much less of a thing compared to the American way of life where almost everyone you meet of age will own a car (as benfro graciously indicated above).  It is literally an American past time to "get your first car" when you get your drivers license; usually around age 16.

 
TheCreepyLurker said:
830 cm/litre
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I think I want to add to this thread that while I do have a driver's license, I don't like to drive at all. It makes me nervous. :(

 
I have 2 cars but I rarely use either of them :P  Everything here is in walking distance. I'm also making a conscious effort to walk everywhere I go.

 
Modi said:
Why would you drive into London 😂 
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He carries equipment around and the trains are shit. mainly equipment though (but the trains most certainly are shit, even when they work he's far in the suburbs but they are always full at his stop, and theres like 10 more to go until your in tube territory)

 
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