Who's worse?

[Brandon]

I'm tempted to go with the Top Gear hatred of RVs (caravans)

Have you just had the episode (you'll know if you did)? From that it was quite clear that Top Gear love caravans as they can fill an episode mocking their owners. And there was another (a while ago) where they make caravans.

RVs are surely different (basically not a flimsy trailer, but a coach-sized vehicle) to the caravans that Top Gear love-to-hate.

And James May is happy with an RV to tour the vineyards of California, and even spent a summer touring Britain in a caravan. OK the alcohol helped, but he actually chose a caravan as the play to stay while doing it...

I consider "DIY RV" to be the funniest Top Gear segment yet.  For those wh haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend you watch the full length version, not the edited one featured in the "Top Gear Top 40" special.

Clarkson's three-level Citroen has to be seen to be believed. 

[TEG24601]

I'm tempted to go with the Top Gear hatred of RVs (caravans)

Have you just had the episode (you'll know if you did)? From that it was quite clear that Top Gear love caravans as they can fill an episode mocking their owners. And there was another (a while ago) where they make caravans.

RVs are surely different (basically not a flimsy trailer, but a coach-sized vehicle) to the caravans that Top Gear love-to-hate.

And James May is happy with an RV to tour the vineyards of California, and even spent a summer touring Britain in a caravan. OK the alcohol helped, but he actually chose a caravan as the play to stay while doing it...

I consider "DIY RV" to be the funniest Top Gear segment yet.  For those wh haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend you watch the full length version, not the edited one featured in the "Top Gear Top 40" special.

Clarkson's three-level Citroen has to be seen to be believed. 

Exactly.


The Caravan Race actually had me falling off of the couch laughing.

[Takumi]

^ agreed. The best part of the segment was when they were going back and forth to the tip and throwing new things away. Hover van was still my favorite segment of the series, though.

[Pete from Boston]

I can't write in Zipcar drivers?  I suspect that's not something they have in much of the country -- cars you rent for a few hours then return to its parking spot.  In Boston, it brings out the multitudes of unaccustomed drivers to figure out the counter-intuitive road network here.  There are a lot of slow cars with drivers making confused back-and-forth glances at stop signs and lights.

Otherwise, I choose U-Haul, if only because I was riding along in one last week with someone completely unaware of the size of his truck or the speed he was going (as he told various interesting stories and gathered a line of cars behind), and because I'll be pulling a U-Haul trailer for the first time this weekend, and I expect to be a menace to 200 miles of innocent passersby.

[vdeane]

I can't write in Zipcar drivers?  I suspect that's not something they have in much of the country -- cars you rent for a few hours then return to its parking spot.  In Boston, it brings out the multitudes of unaccustomed drivers to figure out the counter-intuitive road network here.  There are a lot of slow cars with drivers making confused back-and-forth glances at stop signs and lights.

You're talking about tourists.  The zipcar has nothing to do with it.

[Pete from Boston]

I can't write in Zipcar drivers?  I suspect that's not something they have in much of the country -- cars you rent for a few hours then return to its parking spot.  In Boston, it brings out the multitudes of unaccustomed drivers to figure out the counter-intuitive road network here.  There are a lot of slow cars with drivers making confused back-and-forth glances at stop signs and lights.

You're talking about tourists.  The zipcar has nothing to do with it.

I think most of their users are local who don't own cars.

[jeffandnicole]

I can't write in Zipcar drivers?  I suspect that's not something they have in much of the country -- cars you rent for a few hours then return to its parking spot.  In Boston, it brings out the multitudes of unaccustomed drivers to figure out the counter-intuitive road network here.  There are a lot of slow cars with drivers making confused back-and-forth glances at stop signs and lights.

You're talking about tourists.  The zipcar has nothing to do with it.

Zipcars aren't for tourists.  People (mostly residents within a city without a vehicle) register for the program.  They reserve a car from a local parking garage or lot, then head out to do whatever they need to do.  Usually the Zipcars are used to travel to a point not served by mass-transportation.  The average rental is only a few hours; less than a day at best.