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Pretty much - low gas prices means that diesel is far less common in cars in the US than it is in the UK - so for the 'wafting' market segment of the market rather than moving to dag-dag diesels instead you get lovely purring V8s :cool:

That Northstar V8 engine and powertrain in the DTS is to all intents the same as in the STS I linked albeit the latter is more tuned it seems. Go buy it someone, I would if I was in the UK :D
 
[TW]Fox;20474904 said:
They actually don't on the whole - according to Kellys Blue Book, the US equivilent of Glass's, the average mileage for an American car is roughly similar to our average annual mileage. The Americans also have the same aversion to high mileage cars, in general, as we do - that is to say that there will be people who realise that mileage is nothing and keep cars for ages, bu there are just as many people thinking a car is shot at 60k miles. You only need to look at some of the mileage hysteria from Americans on E90post for more of that.

Most Americans faced with a long distance drive will simply fly.
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Well, thats not so much what the relatives and friends who live over there say.
Ita not uncommon for people to spend 2 solid days on the road pulling shifts driving to get down to Disney land for instance.
The average guys I know drive, and drive everywhere, and think nothing of putting those kind of miles on a car.

I imagine its different depending on the kind of people you mix with as to what they do.
 
atpbx said:
Well, thats not so much what the relatives and friends who live over there say.
Ita not uncommon for people to spend 2 solid days on the road pulling shifts driving to get down to Disney land for instance.
The average guys I know drive, and drive everywhere, and think nothing of putting those kind of miles on a car.

I imagine its different depending on the kind of people you mix with as to what they do.
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Figures here: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm
 
atpbx said:
Well, thats not so much what the relatives and friends who live over there say.
Ita not uncommon for people to spend 2 solid days on the road pulling shifts driving to get down to Disney land for instance.
The average guys I know drive, and drive everywhere, and think nothing of putting those kind of miles on a car.

I imagine its different depending on the kind of people you mix with as to what they do.
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Yea, it depends on the type of people. I'd drive tens of thousands of miles if I lived there as I thoroughly love road trips. Heck I do about 2500 miles a year over there each year and I don't even live there :p

Most don't, however, hence the figures somebody else has just posted showing the average annual mileage is just 1500 a year more than us.
 
In the last 5 years in the uk I did 40k in my honda. So far in just over 1 year I've done about 25000. You do use your car a hell of a lot more over here, since taxi's and buses are rarer than hens teeth. It was even worse when I lived in vermont, walmart was a 1 hr 10 min drive away.
 
doofski said:
In the last 5 years in the uk I did 40k in my honda. So far in just over 1 year I've done about 25000. You do use your car a hell of a lot more over here, since taxi's and buses are rarer than hens teeth. It was even worse when I lived in vermont, walmart was a 1 hr 10 min drive away.
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You do, yea. But loads don't. Hence the average being 13.5k. Thats how average work, there are lots of people over here doing 50k a year for example - sometimes the smaller size of a country encourages more not less driving. Because of the size of our country it's entirely possible for people to drive all over the UK on business. Our domestic air market is quite small. So people driving for a living can rack up 30-40-50k miles. Whereas in a huge country you'll often fly between major cities and rent when you arrive rather than drive, which is why the whole car rental system in the US is about a million times better than it is over here with better prices, more choice, more convenience and rental facilities everywhere - because demand is huge because if you are going from LA to Seattle on business you sure as hell don't take the car :p

Over an hour to Walmart sounds properly isolated though, heck there was a Walmart within an hours drive of the centre of Death Valley :D
 
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