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[tunnie]

As for my consumption - I do tend to keep to road limits when safe, and also I don't slow for hills, the 11mpg was acheived with the aid of lots of hills and a head wind

rather hell..11mpg in the 2.6 whilst towing...................thats it the caravan is going i aint towed with mine as yet, having the tow bar fitted in Feb, but if thats all to expect from the milage.......forget it.

20-30mph head winds, flat out up steep hills, stop start through Truro on LPG - anyway at 45p a litre or so does it matter?

Works out as around 13 on petrol and without the wind is a lot better.

Point is your still getting 11mpg! which is 22mpg petrol costs....

For me this just makes taking a caravan pointless!!

Everyone is banging on about CO2 emmisions, 4x4's that do 25mpg.... no one has mentioned people towing burger vans doing 11mpg!!

Drive to a hotel in a normal car doing 35mpg.... money save on fuel goes toward the hotel bill!

[Auto Addict]

As for my consumption - I do tend to keep to road limits when safe, and also I don't slow for hills, the 11mpg was acheived with the aid of lots of hills and a head wind

rather hell..11mpg in the 2.6 whilst towing...................thats it the caravan is going i aint towed with mine as yet, having the tow bar fitted in Feb, but if thats all to expect from the milage.......forget it.

20-30mph head winds, flat out up steep hills, stop start through Truro on LPG - anyway at 45p a litre or so does it matter?

Works out as around 13 on petrol and without the wind is a lot better.

Point is your still getting 11mpg! which is 22mpg petrol costs....

For me this just makes taking a caravan pointless!!

Everyone is banging on about CO2 emmisions, 4x4's that do 25mpg.... no one has mentioned people towing burger vans doing 11mpg!!

Drive to a hotel in a normal car doing 35mpg.... money save on fuel goes toward the hotel bill!

But, if nobody towed caravans, TB wouldn't have anything to be grumpy about.....Ah! the photos

[miggy]

As for my consumption - I do tend to keep to road limits when safe, and also I don't slow for hills, the 11mpg was acheived with the aid of lots of hills and a head wind

rather hell..11mpg in the 2.6 whilst towing...................thats it the caravan is going i aint towed with mine as yet, having the tow bar fitted in Feb, but if thats all to expect from the milage.......forget it.

20-30mph head winds, flat out up steep hills, stop start through Truro on LPG - anyway at 45p a litre or so does it matter?

Works out as around 13 on petrol and without the wind is a lot better.

Point is your still getting 11mpg! which is 22mpg petrol costs....

For me this just makes taking a caravan pointless!!

Everyone is banging on about CO2 emmisions, 4x4's that do 25mpg.... no one has mentioned people towing burger vans doing 11mpg!!

Drive to a hotel in a normal car doing 35mpg.... money save on fuel goes toward the hotel bill!

Thats only one opinion, not the opinion of 350,000 other caravanners

[TheBoy]

As for my consumption - I do tend to keep to road limits when safe, and also I don't slow for hills, the 11mpg was acheived with the aid of lots of hills and a head wind

rather hell..11mpg in the 2.6 whilst towing...................thats it the caravan is going i aint towed with mine as yet, having the tow bar fitted in Feb, but if thats all to expect from the milage.......forget it.

20-30mph head winds, flat out up steep hills, stop start through Truro on LPG - anyway at 45p a litre or so does it matter?

Works out as around 13 on petrol and without the wind is a lot better.

Point is your still getting 11mpg! which is 22mpg petrol costs....

For me this just makes taking a caravan pointless!!

Everyone is banging on about CO2 emmisions, 4x4's that do 25mpg.... no one has mentioned people towing burger vans doing 11mpg!!

Drive to a hotel in a normal car doing 35mpg.... money save on fuel goes toward the hotel bill!

But, if nobody towed caravans, TB wouldn't have anything to be grumpy about.....

Sounds like heaven

[miggy]

In fact...........498,000 Touring caravans owned
112,000 mobile homes.

Thats big business, including statics 400,000,

[tunnie]

In fact...........498,000 Touring caravans owned
112,000 mobile homes.

Thats big business, including statics 400,000,

Carvans damage the environment!

[Martin_1962]

As for my consumption - I do tend to keep to road limits when safe, and also I don't slow for hills, the 11mpg was acheived with the aid of lots of hills and a head wind

rather hell..11mpg in the 2.6 whilst towing...................thats it the caravan is going i aint towed with mine as yet, having the tow bar fitted in Feb, but if thats all to expect from the milage.......forget it.

20-30mph head winds, flat out up steep hills, stop start through Truro on LPG - anyway at 45p a litre or so does it matter?

Works out as around 13 on petrol and without the wind is a lot better.

Point is your still getting 11mpg! which is 22mpg petrol costs....

For me this just makes taking a caravan pointless!!

Everyone is banging on about CO2 emmisions, 4x4's that do 25mpg.... no one has mentioned people towing burger vans doing 11mpg!!

Drive to a hotel in a normal car doing 35mpg.... money save on fuel goes toward the hotel bill!

My CO2 output is pretty low - high on the H2O mind you!

So spending £70 on gas for the return trip for two weeks is more expensive than spending say £50 on petrol and two weeks hotel?

Anyway how would you expect to get 35mpg from an Omega along a hilly A road with a strong head wind and not driving slowly. I suppose you would have a roof box too.

So doing 19mpg along the M5 through Somerset at 70mph is bad, not when that equates to petrol at 38mpg and diesel at over 40mpg

[Martin_1962]

In fact...........498,000 Touring caravans owned
112,000 mobile homes.

Thats big business, including statics 400,000,

Carvans damage the environment!

HOw?

And what about package holiday jets?

[miggy]

In fact...........498,000 Touring caravans owned
112,000 mobile homes.

Thats big business, including statics 400,000,

Carvans damage the environment!

So does the light you have on at the moment......but i dont give a sh"t as i pay for my carbon footprint

[Auto Addict]

As for my consumption - I do tend to keep to road limits when safe, and also I don't slow for hills, the 11mpg was acheived with the aid of lots of hills and a head wind

rather hell..11mpg in the 2.6 whilst towing...................thats it the caravan is going i aint towed with mine as yet, having the tow bar fitted in Feb, but if thats all to expect from the milage.......forget it.

20-30mph head winds, flat out up steep hills, stop start through Truro on LPG - anyway at 45p a litre or so does it matter?

Works out as around 13 on petrol and without the wind is a lot better.

Point is your still getting 11mpg! which is 22mpg petrol costs....

For me this just makes taking a caravan pointless!!

Everyone is banging on about CO2 emmisions, 4x4's that do 25mpg.... no one has mentioned people towing burger vans doing 11mpg!!

Drive to a hotel in a normal car doing 35mpg.... money save on fuel goes toward the hotel bill!

My CO2 output is pretty low - high on the H2O mind you!

So spending £70 on gas for the return trip for two weeks is more expensive than spending say £50 on petrol and two weeks hotel?Anyway how would you expect to get 35mpg from an Omega along a hilly A road with a strong head wind and not driving slowly. I suppose you would have a roof box too.

So doing 19mpg along the M5 through Somerset at 70mph is bad, not when that equates to petrol at 38mpg and diesel at over 40mpg

Well, there you are then

[miggy]

As for my consumption - I do tend to keep to road limits when safe, and also I don't slow for hills, the 11mpg was acheived with the aid of lots of hills and a head wind

rather hell..11mpg in the 2.6 whilst towing...................thats it the caravan is going i aint towed with mine as yet, having the tow bar fitted in Feb, but if thats all to expect from the milage.......forget it.

20-30mph head winds, flat out up steep hills, stop start through Truro on LPG - anyway at 45p a litre or so does it matter?

Works out as around 13 on petrol and without the wind is a lot better.

Point is your still getting 11mpg! which is 22mpg petrol costs....

For me this just makes taking a caravan pointless!!

Everyone is banging on about CO2 emmisions, 4x4's that do 25mpg.... no one has mentioned people towing burger vans doing 11mpg!!

Drive to a hotel in a normal car doing 35mpg.... money save on fuel goes toward the hotel bill!

My CO2 output is pretty low - high on the H2O mind you!

So spending £70 on gas for the return trip for two weeks is more expensive than spending say £50 on petrol and two weeks hotel?

Anyway how would you expect to get 35mpg from an Omega along a hilly A road with a strong head wind and not driving slowly. I suppose you would have a roof box too.

So doing 19mpg along the M5 through Somerset at 70mph is bad, not when that equates to petrol at 38mpg and diesel at over 40mpg

 

[Golfbuddy]

As for my consumption - I do tend to keep to road limits when safe, and also I don't slow for hills, the 11mpg was acheived with the aid of lots of hills and a head wind

rather hell..11mpg in the 2.6 whilst towing...................thats it the caravan is going i aint towed with mine as yet, having the tow bar fitted in Feb, but if thats all to expect from the milage.......forget it.

20-30mph head winds, flat out up steep hills, stop start through Truro on LPG - anyway at 45p a litre or so does it matter?

Works out as around 13 on petrol and without the wind is a lot better.

Point is your still getting 11mpg! which is 22mpg petrol costs....

For me this just makes taking a caravan pointless!!

Everyone is banging on about CO2 emmisions, 4x4's that do 25mpg.... no one has mentioned people towing burger vans doing 11mpg!!

Drive to a hotel in a normal car doing 35mpg.... money save on fuel goes toward the hotel bill!

Hmmm, 22 mpg compared to the CO₂ out of the back of a Boeing 747??? No comparison.

Cost of staying at a campsite for 14 nights compared to a hotel??? No comparison.

Carbon footprint of caravanning compared to staying at a hotel with it's 24 hour lighting, air conditioning, heating, refrigeration, laundry??? No comparison.

It is true that some drivers are inconsiderate and hold traffic up. This does not mean that all people who tow caravans are the same. Many of us will pull over, when safe to do so, and allow other traffic to pass.

Caravanning is not for everyone, thank God. Just as playing computer games is not for everyone. Just as driving everywhere at illegal speeds is not for everyone. Just as a lot of other things are not for everyone.

We caravanners are quite happy to be the butt of the joke but lets not lose sight of the facts.  

[miggy]

No matter what anyone says..................caravans will always be on the roads.................and LPG will go up in price. And there is nothing anyone can do

[Martin_1962]

One of the reasons I went for LPG was towing, it was bad enough with the 2.0 and I always use a lot of fuel oon the Exeter - Truro section, and very little on the Bristol Exeter section

[miggy]

As for my consumption - I do tend to keep to road limits when safe, and also I don't slow for hills, the 11mpg was acheived with the aid of lots of hills and a head wind

rather hell..11mpg in the 2.6 whilst towing...................thats it the caravan is going i aint towed with mine as yet, having the tow bar fitted in Feb, but if thats all to expect from the milage.......forget it.

20-30mph head winds, flat out up steep hills, stop start through Truro on LPG - anyway at 45p a litre or so does it matter?

Works out as around 13 on petrol and without the wind is a lot better.

Point is your still getting 11mpg! which is 22mpg petrol costs....

For me this just makes taking a caravan pointless!!

Everyone is banging on about CO2 emmisions, 4x4's that do 25mpg.... no one has mentioned people towing burger vans doing 11mpg!!

Drive to a hotel in a normal car doing 35mpg.... money save on fuel goes toward the hotel bill!

Hmmm, 22 mpg compared to the CO₂ out of the back of a Boeing 747??? No comparison.

Cost of staying at a campsite for 14 nights compared to a hotel??? No comparison.

Carbon footprint of caravanning compared to staying at a hotel with it's 24 hour lighting, air conditioning, heating, refrigeration, laundry??? No comparison.

It is true that some drivers are inconsiderate and hold traffic up. This does not mean that all people who tow caravans are the same. Many of us will pull over, when safe to do so, and allow other traffic to pass.

Caravanning is not for everyone, thank God. Just as playing computer games is not for everyone. Just as driving everywhere at illegal speeds is not for everyone. Just as a lot of other things are not for everyone.

We caravanners are quite happy to be the butt of the joke but lets not lose sight of the facts.  

Well said Martin.................