Driving in Barbados.
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 5:03 pm
Worst 'I'm going to Barbados thread ever.
I'm going to Barbados in March with a lot of family. My MIL has just sent me confirmation of the hire car (van) we'll have. All up, we're looking at 1,800kg+ and 91bhp at the fly. It's a Suzuki APV van and it's going to be brilliant....I hope.
I'd like to think, considering they do a tradesman type van as well as the people carrier type, that Suzuki will have fitted brakes that can handle the laden weight. The engine certainly won't be up to much. Quick maths suggests about 50bhp/ton
I'm looking forward to the challenge of producing a progressive, smooth drive that doesn't upset any of my passengers (of which there are 7). This is obviously what we should be looking for on every drive, but doing it in an underpowered, lumbering (assumed; happy to be wrong) bus seems like it might be tricky, but that's the fun.
I'm also interested to see what the local driving is like. For the most part we will be avoiding the touristy bits as half of the people coming are Bajan and know the local things. They tell me the roads are rubbish and I'll have no fun, but I'm trying not to believe them. It's not like there is anything else to do while I'm there.
How sad is it that I'm more excited to be driving a terrible van than laying on a beach.
I'm going to Barbados in March with a lot of family. My MIL has just sent me confirmation of the hire car (van) we'll have. All up, we're looking at 1,800kg+ and 91bhp at the fly. It's a Suzuki APV van and it's going to be brilliant....I hope.
I'd like to think, considering they do a tradesman type van as well as the people carrier type, that Suzuki will have fitted brakes that can handle the laden weight. The engine certainly won't be up to much. Quick maths suggests about 50bhp/ton
I'm looking forward to the challenge of producing a progressive, smooth drive that doesn't upset any of my passengers (of which there are 7). This is obviously what we should be looking for on every drive, but doing it in an underpowered, lumbering (assumed; happy to be wrong) bus seems like it might be tricky, but that's the fun.
I'm also interested to see what the local driving is like. For the most part we will be avoiding the touristy bits as half of the people coming are Bajan and know the local things. They tell me the roads are rubbish and I'll have no fun, but I'm trying not to believe them. It's not like there is anything else to do while I'm there.
How sad is it that I'm more excited to be driving a terrible van than laying on a beach.