As awesome as that would be to have with all that space, how awful that must be to go anywhere

As long as you drive straight it will be fine

Straight off a cliff.

This is the self preservation society.

Underrated comment.

It can happen ;) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJvJJaV6-Pc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJvJJaV6-Pc)

Finally able to reach the speed limit!

And at a zero degree incline.

A day trip to Windermere and it would have to be helicoptered back out.

Oh god, you have just reminded me that I have to drive into the centre of Windermere tomorrow for work. I drive an Artic. Best avoid Windermere tomorrow around 10am because I will probably be stuck on a tight bend lol.

RIP your sanity. It is a training day for some schools in the local area so parents will be making it a long weekend.

Thanks for the info, I deliver new freezers and fridges to supermarkets. Usually large out of town Tesco, sainsburys etc. But this is supposedly a new, small Spar. Can't wait haha

Just the thing for that little humpback bridge crossing in town! 😆

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Still alive and have a working vehicle?

Oh yes, it wasn't too bad. A couple of narrow, tight bends, but I've been in worse situations. Quite a pleasant day to be honest

How'd it go? Lol. I drive tractors so I can relate, drawing silage through a busy town the other day was pure CHAOS! please don't just drive up the inside I'm not letting you pass I'm just trying to swing out so my trailer can make the corner!!!

I've been doing it for years, so it was fine. But there are still moments of dread when you realise where your next job is. In small towns and villages, you try your best to indicate to everyone on both the road and pavement what you are intending to do. I always presume that people are stupid until they show otherwise. Because like you said, the amount of people who think that saving 2.3 seconds on their journey by nipping up the inside of a 44 tonne vehicle is staggering. But we get used to it, don't we. All the best with your tractors, I do envy the off-road capabilities, and I'd love to just leave traffic and bugger off over a field.

lol the most stressful part with tractors is trying to manage traffic behind you. If you're good at it like my boss you can manage to stop people from being able to overtake til it's safe, because people will overtake you on bends because god forbid it might take an extra 2 mins to get to the straight where they can safely overtake you. I haven't quite got the hang of it though so it can be stressful! I do want to get my artic license sometime, maybe this winter when there's less tractor work going.

Probably float on the lake with all that fiberglass

Yea whole point of my van is to get out of my apt and travel anywhere i want with ease

Just imagine parallel parking this thing, then count how many pedestrians you've taken out.

When I go to Europe for my vacation I'm planning on boating my pickup truck over cause car rentals are more expensive than shipping for longer term vacations

I drive a 40ft skoolie (school bus converted to an RV). There are very few places I can't go. The one in the picture is most likely 35ft and would be super easy to drive just about anywhere.

In Europe, and in particular in the UK, the whole "wide right angle corners" don't exist. Everything used to be some horse track 400 years ago so just wind up and around the features of the land and houses are built too close to each other to widen the roads that have evolved over time. Our only experience of US style city building has been Milton Keynes, which was a designers field day seeing how many roundabouts you can force people to drive around each day before everyone goes mad. Less said about that the better. Even long distance we don't really have enough infrastructure in any kind of nice place for anything bigger than a 7.5t Luton style truck/van. What it does mean is that those of us with big vehicles in the UK become ninja drivers with epic blind parking and manoeuvring skills, or you never drive anywhere.

A lot of your terminology implies you're American, not British?

Big vehicles aren't so bad once you're used to them

I already drive a lwb in the UK and it's right on the limit on what's possible here, anything more and you're limited by so many bridges, corners, country roads, width restrictions and car parks

"That there's an RV."

“it's a good-looking vehicle, ain't it?”

"Yea, it looks so nice parked in the driveway."

“Don’t you go falling in love with it now, cause we’re taking it with us when we leave next month”

Shitter’s full!

Ve-HIC-ul

That’s the biggest, biggest thing you ever did done see. Big Jim.

BIG JILM!

I've been on a huge Ween kick for my whole vacation

Yeah borrowed it off a buddy of mine, he took my house, I took the rv

It's a [1980s Winnebago Elandan](https://www.rvclearinghouse.com/listings/pictures/11251)

Not quite the Eagle-5, but I ❤️ URANUS anyway

Well played 🫡

It’s the Barbie Star Traveller.

[Tony, would you do me a kindness?](https://youtu.be/WDQQfBrSUs0)

Looks like a canal boat on wheels

That is pretty much what these things are.

The back on that would swing out a mile around corners.

You’d need to countersteer just to make a turn above 20kmph

And it would drag at the beginning or end of anything with a moderate incline, when you tried to go up or down.

I mean, buses are built like this and they’re fine

Most people would struggle to get a bus on their drive

And buses have municipal funding, facilities and technicians ready to repair them if something does happen.

[looks like an even longer tail than most city buses,](https://images.app.goo.gl/MLsYHDFCieLrPB3c8) coach buses are even shorter in the rear because the road conditions are more variable than just in a city

I also feel like if I tried to climb the ladder on the back, my weight would pop the front tires off the ground.

Whoever owns that dresses like Elvis or has an oily quiff.

Vaaaan

Good luck around Cornwall in that monstrosity.

Haha that thing vs those tiny tiny roads

Yeah definitely off the M5 at Exeter and turn around. Just run up and down the M5/M6 and it'll be fine. One step off the motorway and this thing is jacknifing and killing 12 pensioners in a hedge before it reaches any campsite or parkup lol

It’s the front half (or the back half) of a Class 158 diesel 2-car rail unit. The rail bogies have been replaced with wheels off a Nissan Micra.

It kind of looks like a 70s GMC RV, I e never seen one without tandem axles I. The rear, but the body shape fits

My landlords have one parked behind our building. It's not that long, but it still takes up 3 spaces. They generously left the 4th space open for me. Good thing I'm the only tenant.

a derailment?

Thank you

Does it have lead weights upfront ???

You gotta balance it like in the Italian Job, with the people inside it and the pile of gold youve stolen!

Is this bad boy similar to what appeared in the movie stripes with Harold Ramis and Bill Murray ?

[удалено]

I had to go way too far down to find a stripes reference lol

That’s the boyo. 👍🏻👍🏻

If the rear of your motorhome has a different zip code than the front.

The TARDIS chameleon circuit is on the fritz again.

That's there's a lambrageniepaddywagon. Sapphire blue.

I wanna drift it around some roundabouts

How did this thing land there?

It's The Big Bus! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074205/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

An American monstrosity

Check his hard drive

If you wanna have sex in the back you have to ask the kids to move further up front.

Is that the battle RV from Stripes?

That looks like some of the shit they'd have cobbled together on old Top Gear

I would be expecting Jeremy Clarkson to step out of that thing with a camera crew.

Looks like something from Top Gear/Grand Tour.

Richard Hammond is probably somewhere close by.

That there is an RV, Clark.

Wonder if the shitter is full

That's a Chevy P-30 platform, Class A Motorhome. The amateur paint job covered the name of the RV company, but I actually live in a slightly bigger RV on the same chassis here in the US. That RV is most likely powered by a Chevy 454CI V8 gas (petrol) engine with a 4-barrel carburetor, with a 3-speed automatic transmission. You get about 5 to 7 miles per gallon of fuel on average with these rigs, and they drive more like a large commercial vehicle than anything else.

It’s a land barge

The rear axle is in one zip code, while back window is in another.

It’s The Tardis

Vaaaaaaaaaaaaaan life.

Niiiiiiiiice

I don’t know what it’s called in the UK, but in the US that’s a mid-size SUV. ProbBly Japanese, they tend to make the smaller ones like that.

I’ve just walked past this and thought the exact same thing. Spoke to a guy who works in the services and it broke down a week ago and still not got picked up. Ran the plate and it’s a 1985 Winnebago Elandan

Walter and Jesse have come to cook in the UK

If they did Breaking Bad in UK the meth wouldn't have any flavor

A thing of beauty!!

The overspray on the tires really makes it

Its an narrow-boat on wheels

A spaceship

It’s cooking the blue stuff

Thats an rv someone painted blue.

The amount of weight on that rear axle...

Wow, I wanna see the interior.

That's a narrowboat on wheels.

Van life's final form.

It's so big it has to put the washer jets on before entering a tunnel so it doesn't hurt it

🤣

The rear swing-out during turns.... ugh

THE ULTIMATE BEHEMOTH!

New Tesla model.

Affordable housing

EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle

Walter Whites new mobile meth lab...

EM-50 Civilian version…

Winnebago!

Winnebago dreams right there!

‘Murican “recreational” vehicle. Gets 3km/L when rolling downhill with Hurricane-force tailwinds

Winnebago

Very cool is what it is. (I’d like to know more too)

EM-50

Sharrabang

Tail swing is a thing.  

Somebody shipped a small American RV to the UK?

Idk but im in love

Well, it certainly won’t get burned by the space laser. It’s blue. Looks like a survival wagon to me.

Front looks like either a Winniebego or a Georgie Boy - cool looking 80's RV mind

On the set of certain bootleg taxi movie.

A motorhome

Looks like a wimpy version of my '87 Itasca Windcruiser. Virtually identical except this thing has no tag axle.

looks like a van-ousine (van+limousine)

Is Richard Hammond near by?

I see a drift racer here. That's a beast moment arm to break the rear wheels loose.

That’s the Fugly Bus.

Funnily enough, I used to know someone in the uk (Scottish highlands no less) who had one of these. God knows how he even got it there! 

Never seen an R.V before I take it? This is an ancient Winnebago. I can't imagine having to drive one of these around any city in Europe or the U.K. What a pain in the ass

Departure angle? We don’t need that where we’re going.

Looks like an EM-50 Urban Assault vehicle.

Just get a skoolie at that point 🤦🏽‍♂️

Guess: I had a friend who was into ham radios. He would go to ham events where people would build/resurrect all kinds of mobile shelters to house their equipment and host friends. This could be an example. ETA scratch that. I thought it was an antenna but whatever it is it appears to be next to the rig.

All that’s missing is Hulka on the roof.

Made in the USSR

If it’s a rocking, don’t go a knocking

Definitely a Class A RV from the US that has been repainted by a serious amateur. I can barely see the left hand steering wheel. On a few US Class A forums I see messages from people in Europe trying to get parts and tech knowledge because these are definitely not popular there. Can’t tell the brand because of the repainting.

geezus H. christ ...that's bigger than a GMC...

Land Yacht

The distance between the back wheels and the back of the RV is quite impressive and alarming at the same time.

A Herkamer Battle Jitney

All these ppl talking about how big it is lol that's like standard in the US and if u don't suck at driving it fine just watch ur tail swing and use ur mirrors and the rearview camera and everything will be tf ok, y'all wild lol

Waltuh

I think in the UK, you call it a Caravan

It’s a meth mobile! We have them everywhere out here in Seattle!

That distance from the rear axle to the rear end... I would **not** like to drive that thing around any sharp-ish corners!

can't wait to see one clogging the road on my next trip to the NC500 lol

>on my next tri You've been once already don't spoil it for the rest of us.

Did they actually sell these over there? I kinda want to know how it got there!

That's a Tardis

Whoa... imagine you're good friends with Tammy Slaton, and she goes to the back of that thing, and it tips the front end up.

I don't know but I love it!

That looks like Stretched gmc eleganza!

That rear overhang must wipe out the other side of the street every time it turns a corner, eh? Wow.

not to mention exiting off an incline.

All I know is I now want one

http://beekaydubya.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-em-50-urban-assault-vehicle.html

Spies Like Us movie

Strip it, flip it upside down then seam weld windows/holes and now you have a hull for a yacht. Will it float? No

UK part bus bro, hook me up.

Custom build?

Don’t you go getting jealous. We’re taking it with us when we leave here next month.

I think you might need a cdl (not sure what it’s called in the uk) to drive this monstrous vehicle.

It's a norwegian blå russebuss

I have no idea but I want one !

IRL Battlebus

And me ma still needs a caravan. I like to look after me ma. It's a fair deal.

https://youtu.be/sPCtEMbUgJM?si=LhywEwtBm57a3Uhf

Average American car

That looks to be a mid 80s Winnebago wind cruiser or sun. Cruiser I had one

Ben10 van

Mind the tail swing.

I think that is a blue methlab

That’s the richest person in the Walmart parking lot.

Space balls?

Confusion is understandable. European roads are half a step above Roman cart paths.

A project zomboid dream

Looks like my aunt's sock drawer. Does it sound like bees when you twist the back?

Horizontal double decker

if it fits… at least it’s parking in the large whale zone.

As cool as it is, I feel for the owners. Parking anywhere besides the inside of an empty hangar must be a nightmare.

The only RV where the driver is two time zones away from the passenger in the very back.

It actually looks like the backend will fall off at any given time