Me or DH! My car...

[myfingersarenotsogreen]

So DH, DCs 5 &3 and Me are supposed to be going away for half term to a self catering place about 5 hours drive away tomorrow. Yesterday DHs car (family size hatchback) packed up. It is at the garage and they will phone us at lunchtime to see if it can be fixed in time...

I suggested we might be able to go in mine - a Nissan Micra but DH has refused and wants to hire one... but we now find there is no availability locally. I raised my car again wanting to discuss pros and cons but he was just rude to me!

I know mine is small, its a town car and not great at long motorway trips but AIBU to say that it has air-con, a decent radio and is actually running?

of course YANBU, what an arse

Underpowered, uncomfortable and almost exclusively driven by people that can’t drive.

Wow! Well that would explain quite a bit about why my experience on the roads does appear to vary according to which car I am driving.

That attitude seems arrogant, judgemental, discriminatory and unreasonable to me.

@MoreSlidingDoors
I'd love to know what you drive - presumably something large and powerful that befits your vastly superior driving skills

UCO thanks for the pic of the Hillman Imp. DM had one of those when we were kids in the 60s. It used to break down all over the place, leaving us stranded in country lanes for hours. We did go to London in it to visit rellies (we lived in the far North) and survived. Happy days lol.

Based on your drip feed of epic proportions of course your husband was right on this occasion and had even sorted it out himself. Hooray.

so take a bit less stuff. Maybe buy a roof rack, and put some stuff on top to get there. The front seat of any car is like any other. Small kids are fine in the back.

Or pay a few hundred to hire a bigger one. It's a first world problem and no mistake.

5 hours isn't that long a drive, it's once you get past about 12 hours it starts getting uncomfortable

Ive got 8 dining room chairs and a 6ft table in the back of my micra before

Underpowered, uncomfortable and almost exclusively driven by people that can’t drive.

oh, so you are one of those drivers who think they drive better because they have a 4x4? Yes, we all know how that works out!

I

Glad it is sorted. I can see that it would have been quite a compromise on your plans.

However, we once drove from the north of Scotland to Spain, and back again, in a Nova (that had no power steering)....a squeeze but actually one of my favourite family holidays

oh, so you are one of those drivers who think they drive better because they have a 4x4? Yes, we all know how that works out!

I have an advanced driving qualification from the police and a racing licence though.

@MoreSlidingDoors

What car do you drive that allows you to be so very sneery about not only Micras and their drivers?

our family car is a toyota yaris. the number of people who keep telling us its much too small and we won’t be able to go on holidays with it is astonishing! we’ve been on holidays with it (2 adults, 2 kids), and its fine

One would be very outing. There are only 20 in the country.

The other 2 are standard vehicles. Smallest is a Fabia and biggest an SUV. Both have high torque.

I do about 80,000 miles a year, so observe lots of cars and drivers. Nissan Micras and Toyota Avensises are almost always poorly driven (too slow, join motorways at 40mph, no awareness, take forever to park, hesitate at roundabouts, leave indicators on, poor lane positioning).

One would be very outing. There are only 20 in the country

of course you do
I love that forum

Oh good all sorted panic over.

MoreSlidingDoors
One would be very outing. There are only 20 in the country.

yeah ok....

yeah ok....

Why not, plenty of rare cars about. I’ve owned a rare colour(JDM only) of a rare model (maybe 150 in the country, 6 in that colour) and a fairly rare BMW of which approx 50 remain.

It has wheels and it moves effectively from point A to point B, what’s the issue as long as everything fits and the kids haven’t got their faces squished up the windows?

Yanbu. If my OH was that rude to me I’d tell him to get the train or get a coach and we’ll meet him there!

I saw a car at a show last weekend of which there are only 2 left on the road in the country. So rare cars are a thing.

Taking my VW Up to Wales from London on Monday and have done before!

We only have small cars and for years only had one small car and we managed on holidays! Now we have two small cars we tend to take both as usually not travelling more than two hours (camping, self catering etc) so it makes it easier as we take one child each who sit in the front then back seats go down allowing more room for storage.

Yanbu wanting to try. It might mean you have to take less ie food and buy that at your destination (which is what we did when we only had one car).

I hope you have a lovely holiday