America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient

Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by adekok on Thursday May 18, 2017 @06:23PM (#14371586)

> It is very, very rare to meet Europeans who drive across multiple countries for leisure

Then you've never been to the south of France in the summer.

It's filled with license plates from all over the EU. Mainly Dutch, UK, German. I've even seen Estonian plates.

It's ~1200Km from the Netherlands to the south of France. People do it in camper vans all of the time.

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Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by molf on Friday May 19, 2017 @04:19AM (#14373752)

Also Italy, north Spain, Croatia. And Germany/Austria/Switzerland in winter season.

It might not be as widespread to travel long distances by car as it is in the US, but it is definitely not "very, very rare". I would even say it's common for many Dutch, Danish, German, Belgian, Polish (from what I can observe).

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Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient by taejo on Friday May 19, 2017 @04:14AM (#14373737)

Indeed. There are places in Croatia where you see more German plates than Croatian in the summer.

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