They do here too! The possible exception, but I have to add huge great SUV's are very popular - both with tradesmen and inner-city yuppies (who never go on a dirt road)! Even my granddaughter, at 18, wanted to buy a Ford F250, until I pointed out it would require her to spend her entire weekly income on fuel.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML <[email protected]> On Behalf Of mike wilson Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2019 2:50 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Paul's NYTimes piece Even odder, full-size Mustangs are selling like hot cakes here. > On 16 July 2019 at 00:35 [email protected] wrote: > > > Odd - years ago in Australia everyone had a big, American-style gas-guzzler: even my mother had a Chrysler Charger as her daily drive. Now, the most popular cars are Toyota Corollas and Camrys, and the Camry is classed as a big car. > I drive a Honda City - cheap, at under $20k, but comfortable, well-equipped, and cheap to run at 5-7litres per 100k consumption. I seldom drive more than 100k in a day, so it's much more practical than a bigger, more expensive car. > > John in Brisbane > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ralf R Radermacher > Sent: Monday, 15 July 2019 6:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Paul's NYTimes piece > > Am 15.07.19 um 06:45 schrieb Larry Colen: > > > Cars for driving on the street with upwards of 500 hp are not rare. > > Just imagine the gas mileage we could get from cars with less power which would not need to be built for safety at speeds far beyond 200 km/h. I pray every day that our government will at last introduce a general speed limit on our motorways. It wouldn't even change much because large parts are already under speed restrictions but there'd be no more need to build all cars for this nonsense. Their whole design could be made far lighter and leaner. > > Belgian motorways have been restricted to 120 km/h for decades. As a result, driving there is much more relaxed than here in Germany where you have the lorries on the right lane, the middle lane owners club at > 110 km/h and the guys in their black Audis and BMWs gunning down the left lane at whatever speed they can do so. A madhouse on wheels. > > I heard this morning that the regional government of Brussels has just decided to turn the whole town into a 30 km/h zone (18 mph) in 2021. > Noone needs a Cayenne or a RAM under these conditions but still the Belgians buy them as if their salvation depended on it. > > Our cars have become ever heavier, bigger and most of all wider. On the average European car park, the average car hardly fits between the white lines nowadays. All this has gone totally out of hand. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
