Driving in Engl... IS THAT A FUCKING FULVIA?

"KirkyV" (KirkyV) 05/16/2014 at 04:43 • Filed to: Lancia, Fulvia, UK, England, Britain

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And I bet the guy driving didn't even notice!

Kookanoodles > KirkyV 05/16/2014 at 04:52

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I saw a burgundy one the other day.

KirkyV > Kookanoodles 05/16/2014 at 04:55

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I saw a red one, much like that one - actually, with how close I live to where this video was filmed, there's a decent chance it was the same one - a few years ago.

GhostZ > KirkyV 05/16/2014 at 04:57

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It gets better:

BMW E36 at 2:05, followed by a Lancia "Chrysler 300". Range Rover at 2:12. Smart roadster at 3:03! Daihatsu Copen at 3:09. Some red coupe (looks like a Peugeot) with hood vents at 4:03. Peugeot RCZ at 4:11.Jaguar XKR at 4:44. What I think is a Vauxhall/Opel coupe at 5:01, or a really blurry RX-8.

KirkyV > GhostZ 05/16/2014 at 05:12

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The red car's a Peugeot 206 CC - coupe cabriolet, with a metal folding roof - and the 300 is actually badged as a Chrysler; they're not sold as Lancias in the UK. Honestly, I don't really like either: the Peugeot 206, in all its forms, is one of my least favourite cars in the world - I like Peugeot a lot, and see it as the start of their slide into mediocrity - and the Chrysler just isn't my sort of thing.

I actually live in the UK, so a lot of the interesting cars are fairly common to me. The Fulvia, though... Fuck me.

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Oh, and just in case the roads looked a little dull: the speed limit along all those country roads is actually sixty, so they can be a lot of fun... If you're not stuck behind a slow old person, or a tourist who doesn't know what this sign means:

(Which, honestly, is understandable if I think about it. Roads in the UK have set 'national speed limits'; blanket speed limits that apply to any road that meets a certain set of criteria. On roads that run through towns, it's 30; on country roads, like the one in the picture and the ones he spent most of his time on, it's 60, and on any road with two lanes or more in either direction, it's 70. The white circle with a black diagonal represents the national speed limit, and could technically be used to demark any road with a standard speed limit, but most towns and such use signs with actual numbers, as it helps remind drivers to slow down.)

GhostZ > KirkyV 05/16/2014 at 05:15

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Yeah, the Fulvia takes the cake there, but that was still a very concentrated group of unique cars.

This is closer to the type of roads I love:

Speed limit? The speed limit is when your door mirrors start shaking too much.

KirkyV > GhostZ 05/16/2014 at 05:17

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Well, you could certainly go faster than sixty on those roads if you wanted to - there's nothing stopping you - but most people would be too afraid of death by thousand year old hedge. Driving really fast in a straight line certainly has its appeals... But I like a good winding country road, myself.

Crocket Bernet > KirkyV 05/16/2014 at 05:23

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If it wasn't so cloudy and rainy in England it would be a cool place to live.

Crocket Bernet > GhostZ 05/16/2014 at 05:28

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This is my kinda road.

KirkyV > Crocket Bernet 05/16/2014 at 05:32

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As this - utterly terrible - picture I just took from my window demonstrates, it has its moments... But yeah, if sunshine's your thing, the UK is best avoided.

Svend > KirkyV 05/16/2014 at 05:56

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I live in Cumbria, literally two miles from the Scottish border. Sunshine is a rarity at best.

KirkyV > Svend 05/16/2014 at 06:00

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I'm down in Kent, so it's a mite more common, but there are still stretches of the year where it's nothing but grey skies and drizzle.

Svend > KirkyV 05/16/2014 at 06:09

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I love some of these videos our visiting cousins post. I watched one which was a young lad teaching his American cousin how to drive using a manual and drive on the left hand side of the round. There was quite a bit of stalling going on.

It sort of draws to our attention stuff that we see every day but coming from a foreign visitor seems so alien. I saw one that a woman (her and her husband were posted to R.A.F./U.S.A.F. Lakenheath) was staggered by washer/driers in that it was all done in one machine rather than two separate machines and how switches on the electric sockets left her amazed in that you didn't have to unplug the device from the wall to stop the electrical current from passing through when not in use.

My sister and step-father are Mormon (I'm atheist, mother Church of England) and get missionaries all the time from Utah and Texas. We had one elderly married couple of missionaries who were allowed to have a car (a three door Vauxhall Corsa) and kept talking about how the car was so small and how their roads back home were so big and straight. My reply was always, 'we have some straight roads, but the mountains get in the way most of the time and its easier to go round them rather than over or through them'.

Svend > KirkyV 05/16/2014 at 06:17

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I was down in Kent a couple of years back in Gillingham for a detailing meet up. The weather was glorious. Though the driving was insane at the best of time.

jkm7680 > KirkyV 05/16/2014 at 06:23

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That's pretty. I'd never street park it like that though.

KirkyV > Svend 05/16/2014 at 06:32

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I've never had too much trouble with the driving - well, with the exception of this one roundabout in Ashford - but I grew up, and had my lessons here, so it's hard to compare. I've only been to Gillingham once, to drop off a friend who's going to Uni there. It, uh, was alright?

KirkyV > jkm7680 05/16/2014 at 06:34

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Pretty much everyone street-parks in the UK. I mean, do you see room for a garage - or even a driveway - in that village it was parked in?

Even if you do have a garage here, it's generally used for storage/as a workshop.

jkm7680 > KirkyV 05/16/2014 at 06:59

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Yep, I'd cover it up at least.

Svend > KirkyV 05/16/2014 at 07:16

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I didn't see much of Gillingham other than a couple of pubs. Was at KDS Keltec in Gillingham with some Ferrari 360, 430, 32(something), Ford GT40s, a Aston Martin DB9 s, a Testarossa, and a load of other machinery. The Ferrari Enzo is ridiculously loud on start up and with a little throttle (I don't like it, its overkill on the senses).

I did get to buy a waitress a bottle of champagne as her boss made her work on her wedding anniversary which she liked.

Cé hé sin > KirkyV 05/16/2014 at 12:54

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Yes, you see the same sign on Autobahnen. Slightly different meaning though...

GhostZ > KirkyV 05/16/2014 at 13:59

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That's the thing, you're not driving in a straight line if you go fast on roads like this. At 120mph, those "straight roads" become dangerous curves you have to pre-calculate or risk death.