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Originally Posted by SPM
On the plus side, the cars are a more realistic size over here.
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Yes, I was thinking the same thing; although there were some (go-)car(t)s in England, made by Ford I think, that you could put in the bed of a Ram 2500. I do not recall seeing any of those on M1 or M25, and wise were all they who stayed away!
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Originally Posted by SPM
Actually, I love driving down narrow country lanes. They are most certainly the stuff of the Shire IMHO.
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Well, of course! Nothing beats it! Especially when it's a B road that the city folks must think are the plague. We found some of the greatest places by taking the country lanes that American tourists are expected to stay off of. Like Bibury, Coln Roger ... but now this is sounding like the Shire thread instead of Mordor, so I better stop and find something to rant about.
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Originally Posted by Mormegil
Small cars that aren't made for a larger man should go to Mordor.
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Surprisingly enough to me, there was one small car we were given a ride in that had tons of foot space; which I could tell you the model.
Okay, here's a
Rant: Why does England observe the metric system in terms of weather (celsius) and liquid (litres of petrol), but not distance (miles)? At least in America, the failure to switch to the metric system can be blamed on laziness, and the continued use thereof in soda/pop/coke
can be blamed on marketing (increase the size of the bottle a little and raise the price a lot). The English inconsistency may hereby go to Mordor (unless, of course, there is a logical answer to my question above).
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Originally Posted by phantom
I think that it is perfectly acceptable to tailgate, honk, and flash your lights at someone who is going well below the speed limit- like going under 35 in a 45 zone.
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What about on a 16 degree (or greater) uphill grade in a Renault Clio, which doesn't have the guts to accelerate in ANY gear on such a slope? I swear, I was at least 10 below the speed limit, could not coax any more out of this (ahem) little French beast, and the farm truck was less than 2 feet off my tail; how was I even supposed to downshift without causing an accident (by the way, I did, and made the guy that much madder ... double meaning fully intended!) So little French cars with no guts can go to Mordor too.
And while we're on the topic of narrow lanes, I kid you not: the dotted line down the middle of the road STAYS in the middle of the road, while the lanes (two way traffic, now!) continually get narrower and narrower until the dotted line would by anyone's calculations look ridiculous, so it ceases as the (two way traffic) road continues to narrow until CLEARLY only one car can go through at a time. At Merton college in Oxford, there is one drive on which the dotted line continues along with the narrowing road until the road is only two feet wide, one foot on either side of the line; then a dead end. I wish I'd taken a picture. I had to laugh. But that, I would not send to Mordor.