Mistaken automotive beliefs

[Warren t claim]

Every articulated lorry on the road is a 44 tonner.

[AutoshiteBoy]

Sherpas are shit.

[mercrocker]

Every VW campervan is driven by a beanie-hatted lentil-licking unwashed arse who listens to shit music and dreams about Cal-look lowering kits, stupid fucking safari windows and wants to congegrate in a field with a load of identikit "alternatives" with shrieking macaque children and a moaning missus who'd rather be in a hot tub.

[Warren t claim]

Every VW campervan is driven by a beanie-hatted lentil-licking unwashed arse who listens to shit music and dreams about Cal-look lowering kits, stupid fucking safari windows and wants to congegrate in a field with a load of identikit "alternatives" with shrieking macaque children and a moaning missus who'd rather be in a hot tub.

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/soc ... 2061430501

[mercrocker]

I got the gist of that before my ad-blocker upset it! The only way to enjoy a VW van is keep well away from other ones.

[Warren t claim]

I got the gist of that before my ad-blocker upset it! The only way to enjoy a VW van is keep well away from other ones.

THE purchase of a camper van will not make your life meaningful or free, it has emerged.

As the holiday season begins, millions of desperate office workers are thinking heavily-romanticised thoughts about buying a vehicle with an uncomfortable bed and a potty in it.

Sales manager Tom Logan said: “I’m going to buy a Jamie Oliver van, put a surf board on the top and drive around Cornwall with a terrier with one of those little hankies round his neck. I will definitely pick up an attractive female hitch-hiker in a battered straw hat and have consensual sex with her.

“Then we’ll look at the sunset and think deep thoughts while feeling truly alive.”

However VW Camper owner Roy Hobbs said: “Mine’s just sitting in the drive, rusting. I’ll take it out next week so that it can go and fail its MOT.

“Basically I’ve slept in it four nights, which means as a form of accommodation it is slightly more expensive than the Savoy.

“I have had no additional sex since buying it, or noticed any increase in my personal liberty or freewheelingness.”

Vintage camper owner Nikki Hollis said: “Apparently ‘freedom’ means ‘travelling slowly in considerable discomfort while using shitloads of petrol’.

“Although I suppose in normal, conventional life you don’t get to cook sausages on a faulty gas ring while crouched next to a plastic box containing human faeces.”

[Eddie Honda]

Window tints are the bane of modern cars. Reversing in the dark looking thorugh darkened glass... great idea.

Its perfectly achievable to reverse in a van without a rear window in the dark...

Mirrors - Cracking invention!

[Warren t claim]

I have to admit that the shitloads of petrol comment is true. I had one at the same time as owning a Range Rover 3.9 Efi and used the Range Rover more because it was more economical.

[LynehamHerc]

My powerhouse of an about 50hp 1600 only does about 22mpg at best and that's with never using it for runs of less than about 7 miles.

I enjoy driving it though so it's worth it.

[SiC]

I'm hoping I can pick a "cheap" T1 or T2 when they all get sold off in 3 years time because of the above realities.