Re: PH blog: why vans rock
Discussion
Dan Trent said:
TAHodgson said:
Thank god. I honestly thought I was the only weirdo that loved driving vans!! Your caddy is the successor to my old one!
Loving that! For work I get to muck around in the 1.7 Tdi Combo for many days (just got it past 80k today, it's an '07, and in September when I started the job it was on 74k 
) a week. It's great in Milton Keynes, but it lacks a bit of grip and understeers like a pig (my fault probably!).
Occasionally I have to take the 2.0 Ducato out (54 plate), it's a SLUFF but there's nothing like driving a big white van through London or around the motorways...
My brother has a VW T5 and I love that thing. I'd quite like one. He lives in Wales, so where my normal Corsa (Cors'hite) would be saying "change down a few gears mate" it just says "I appear to be on a slope. Meh" and it keeps on rolling.
He gets crap at the tip of course, and because he's redecorating the house he does have quite industrial levels of waste to take to the tip... but he's used to arguing with the pen pushers now
) a week. It's great in Milton Keynes, but it lacks a bit of grip and understeers like a pig (my fault probably!).Occasionally I have to take the 2.0 Ducato out (54 plate), it's a SLUFF but there's nothing like driving a big white van through London or around the motorways...
My brother has a VW T5 and I love that thing. I'd quite like one. He lives in Wales, so where my normal Corsa (Cors'hite) would be saying "change down a few gears mate" it just says "I appear to be on a slope. Meh" and it keeps on rolling.
He gets crap at the tip of course, and because he's redecorating the house he does have quite industrial levels of waste to take to the tip... but he's used to arguing with the pen pushers now
I'd be lost without my Kangoo snotter.
It's a bit of a heap. A relic from my dads business that we simply couldn't part with.
130k on the clock and 55+ mpg. It went everywhere last winter. You can leave it parked anywhere and not care and other van drivers don't cut you up and they let you out of junctions.
Only downside is that living in Northern Ireland you will get pulled at check points and as already mentioned you get some grief taking rubbish to the tip because your in a van.
We have a Z4 and a 1M coupe. The van takes all the grief and I really don't want to be without it.
It's a bit of a heap. A relic from my dads business that we simply couldn't part with.
130k on the clock and 55+ mpg. It went everywhere last winter. You can leave it parked anywhere and not care and other van drivers don't cut you up and they let you out of junctions.
Only downside is that living in Northern Ireland you will get pulled at check points and as already mentioned you get some grief taking rubbish to the tip because your in a van.
We have a Z4 and a 1M coupe. The van takes all the grief and I really don't want to be without it.
I find low powered cars much more fun to drive. My winter transport in Canada is a Jetta Diesel and I can drive that at 9/10ths without the rest of the traffic even noticing. Quite wild slides are possible at really slow and almost safe speeds. I think of it as ticketless fun because the police don't notice me. (It may be partly that my other car is particularly loud andnoticable!)
V8A*ndy said:
Chrisw666 said:
I'm now looking at vans in the classifieds.
Another point is that vans tend to be very expensive to insure.Worth checking that out.
I started driving when I was 20. I'm now 28, and my van is the most I've ever paid for car insurance.
Look at my previous motors. Then weep.
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