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Thread #143451   Message #3311924
Posted By: Steve Shaw
22-Feb-12 - 07:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Learner drivers allowed on UK motorways?
Subject: RE: BS: Learner drivers allowed on UK motorways?
God, Dick, you've really lost it this time.

Now Don, are you honestly telling me that your car does not increase its fuel consumption very considerably when you're tugging your caravan? Pray tell me what miracle vehicle this is, cos I want one NOW!

Since you ask, I have a Ford Focus 1.6 diesel that gets me over 50 to the gallon on motorways and not much under that around town. Believe it or not, that is one of the most fuel-hungry cars I've ever had (hey, Dick, I passed MY test in '68 too!) Of course, I never tug a caravan with it. Now Don, what do you have, and what does it do when you're hauling your little mobile home round the country? Huh? Naturally, I assume you own two cars, one behemoth for the annual fortnight of caravan-tugging and the other with an elastic band that gets you 80 to the gallon the rest of the time. Well?