I have 3 F150’s, a jaguar F-type, X-type and an airplane. Plus an ATV and a small motorcycle. It’s not enough
Why so many cars in one family or person?
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Horses for courses, as the British say. Here's how my garage specs out:
Clubman- Daily driver/commuter car
Wrangler- For tasks around the farm and for when winter weather is really extreme, plus it's a hoot to drive
318ti- Weekend toy/garage queen; owned since new, three pedals, no hole in the roof and no intrusive nannies
C43- Comfortable and reasonably quick, its a irrationally fun Q-ship
X1- Wife's car; surprisingly entertaining due to the M Sport suspension
However, plans are in the works to replace the Clubman and Wrangler with a Wrangler 4xe- in the interest of saving the planet...
Clubman- Daily driver/commuter car
Wrangler- For tasks around the farm and for when winter weather is really extreme, plus it's a hoot to drive
318ti- Weekend toy/garage queen; owned since new, three pedals, no hole in the roof and no intrusive nannies
C43- Comfortable and reasonably quick, its a irrationally fun Q-ship
X1- Wife's car; surprisingly entertaining due to the M Sport suspension
However, plans are in the works to replace the Clubman and Wrangler with a Wrangler 4xe- in the interest of saving the planet...
Well... the five people in our household need their own vehicles as we are dependent on them for working, school, etc. It seems reasonable to have a spare, too, between the five is. That puts us at the national 1.2 cars per driver. Not sure what else to tell you.
Those of us with an automotive hobby will generally have multiple vehicles. This isn't just a US thing though.
My friends/ family that are not into the automotive hobby mostly just have one vehicle.
My friends/ family that are not into the automotive hobby mostly just have one vehicle.
1 per driver isn't enough, not when they start to get older and random things happen randomly to the older car. And you still need to get to work or school.
In college I lived within bicycling distance of school and a grocery store. Was really nice--until temps got down to 10F (-12C), then that was a real test of the willpower! Cold, snow, rain... was only 4 miles but still. Now I don't have neighbors right next door nor traffic going by at all hours of the day (I know you get used to it but still, is nice to be alone in the backyard).
In college I lived within bicycling distance of school and a grocery store. Was really nice--until temps got down to 10F (-12C), then that was a real test of the willpower! Cold, snow, rain... was only 4 miles but still. Now I don't have neighbors right next door nor traffic going by at all hours of the day (I know you get used to it but still, is nice to be alone in the backyard).
Funny how a fleet like yours....well mine too, can be too much, yet still not enough at the same time....let's get all intellectually and say we've discovered the Gearhead Paradox!I have 3 F150’s, a jaguar F-type, X-type and an airplane. Plus an ATV and a small motorcycle. It’s not enough
There are many big families in poor countries using small vehicles.
My point is, we could all do that, but, we don’t have to. Economic prosperity allowed that.
When I moved to the US from Europe I gained 25lbs in two months.
When I go back, if not work related, I eat more, I pretty much replace blood with alcohol, yet, I lose weight.
You can have 2 cars, the next day you have one because of a crash, then the next day the transmission goes out on the other one.
Then your choice is an expensive rental car, so maybe a number 3 is a good idea? Then depending on where you live and what the crime is like, having a few cars that run and move sitting around is a great deterrent. The whole of the how many cars argument should be based on simple logic. Point 1 things break, back up cars are a good thing compared to a rental car. A few weeks of rental car will buy you a junker to drive in an emergency.
Then your choice is an expensive rental car, so maybe a number 3 is a good idea? Then depending on where you live and what the crime is like, having a few cars that run and move sitting around is a great deterrent. The whole of the how many cars argument should be based on simple logic. Point 1 things break, back up cars are a good thing compared to a rental car. A few weeks of rental car will buy you a junker to drive in an emergency.
I just like vehicles and we could get by with one or two but it's fun having some extras.
I am only showing that Texas is not the size of Europe. You just didn't pay attention to the thread.
That isn't correct. Europe is almost 15 X the size of Texas!
Europe is larger than all the U.S.
Europe has a bigger land area 3,910,680 sq miles than the U.S. 3,531,905 sq miles
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you sure about that second sentence.
I think I have had 2 vehicle's all of my life, going back to a teenager.. once married it became 3,4 or more.
throw in the idea I commuted about 50k miles a year for nearly 20 years
and that I drove beaters, I pretty much had to have 2, just for myself, not for extended family.
one of my cowrkers is in the same boat.
he can buy a new car in about 5 years it is past 250k.. if you live like that you need more than 1 car.
I edited it. Yes, a quick google search will confirm. I meant to say Europe is almost 15 times the size of Texas.you sure about that second sentence.
The population of Europe is also over 2 times the USA.
Europe is a continent that consists of 50 countries.
Ukraine is one European country which would be about the same size as the state of Texas.
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Ok. how many European countries have more land area than Texas. Texas seems like it is about 800 miles across at the wide point and darn near as tall as it is wide.
Map is not to scale. Top of globe is extremely stretched out if you believe the maps anyway.
France alone is not much smaller than Texas. Texas is only 1.2 times larger than France.
Just the numbers then.
Texas: 268,596 sq miles
France: 213,911 sq miles
Western Europe: 2.2 million sq miles
Europe: 3.9 million sq miles
USA: 3.7 million sq miles
You got multiple houses and multiple spouses?
As for biking. Europeans forget that the US sits at much lower in latitude than Europe. The majority of the country falls on the same latitude as Italy, Turkey, N Africa and the Middle East. The summers are very hot and humid, or hot and dry.
On other thing about density. The US being such a young country didn't have to build dense but easily defensible cities to protect people during the Dark/Middle ages. Feudalism wasn't a thing.
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