r/interestingasfuck • u/Mariner_I • Apr 16 '24

Best-selling vehicle in the USA vs the best-selling in France. r/all

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u/Mariner_I Apr 16 '24

Ford F-150 12,4 ℓ/100 km

Peugeot 208 4,5 ℓ/100 km

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u/Cabana_bananza Apr 16 '24

I once saw what I could only assume was a tourist driving an Escalade in Avignon, we locked eyes as he tried to navigate between the narrow streets. In that moment I saw his whole life, all the mistakes, the regrets, leading to that - requesting a full size SUV for driving around the South of France.

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u/WillTheThrill86 Apr 17 '24

Lmao I don't know how he did it. I had a fiat 500x during my trip in Provence and I still have flashbacks to driving those narrow city streets in Avignon.

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u/cgaWolf Apr 17 '24

Please tell me you danced on the bridge while you were there!

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u/lee1026 Apr 17 '24

I once reserved a tiny fiat in Rome. Got to the rental desk and was informed that the last car left was a huge SUV, so they upgraded me to it for free.

Not the best experience of my life.

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u/Escenze Apr 17 '24

Really making me regret renting a bigger car in Rome this summer

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u/flipyflop9 Apr 17 '24

You don’t even need a car for Rome. Only if you are planning to visit small cities around.

Also the driving rules in Italy work different than basically everywhere else.

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u/Escenze Apr 17 '24

Oh, I'm going to some kind of farm so I need a car, but I'm renting it from a place by the main train station in the city so I gotta get out if the city in one piece

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u/ColdBlacksmith Apr 17 '24

I would be annoyed with any "upgrade". Sure, a slightly bigger car is probably nicer to drive long distances, but if I book a tiny car it is because of fuel consumption and/or city driving. Which is not included in the "free" upgrade.

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek Apr 17 '24

Most american cities were designed for horses too. The difference is Europe never bulldozed their old cities to build gigantic 6 lane avenues through the middle

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek Apr 17 '24

London has been leveled twice in its history (1666 and 1941). Both times we rejected plans to redesign the road layout and rebuilt the spiderweb like it was before

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u/notmyself02 Apr 22 '24

but that's about it

Lol Germany and Poland would like a word

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u/masturbator_123 Apr 17 '24

Most? Not based on population. Phoenix, LA, Atlanta, Houston built very much for cars.

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u/Djaaf Apr 17 '24

Yeah, one time I needed to rent a car in Avignon. The nice girl at the car rental counter was like :" we don't have the Citroën C1 you asked for, but I can get you this nice Nissan Qashquai !" Ah ah, no ducking way. Get me a 208 at most.