Buying a motorway cruiser

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:59 am

Is this travelling up/down once a week?
Personally I think I'd get back several hours of my life each time, by flying!
Then either walk/use public transport around Brum while I was there, or if a car was needed, buy some cheapy thing to live in Brum that I could use there during the week and abandon at the weekend.
Cheaper, way less stressful/tiring/boring etc.

vtecred · Post by **vtecred** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:31 pm

I was alternatively thinking of that but if the cost of diesel will be cheaper then so be it lol!!

Confused · Post by **Confused** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:59 pm

With FlyBe, taking a random date sample a Monday flight out, and a Friday flight back, you're looking at around £50 each way.

Probably similar to driving, but a much more relaxed experience, as well as a HUGE difference in time.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:03 pm

Yep, the only drag is the bollocks security you have to go through and all the time that shenanigans wastes. But would still save you about 2 hours each way, even after that.
No contest for me.

Post by **indigolemon** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:48 pm

Given you need to be there an hour before to check in, and are then subject to delays, I'm unsure the overall time would be any different. Is rail an option?

Confused · Post by **Confused** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:00 pm

Even if flying isn't any *quicker* overall, it's a lot less hassle than driving. Driving those distances is the last thing I'd want to be doing at the beginning and end of a working week.

With flying, you can read, watch a film, wander around the airport and get a coffee, or even sleep. You can't do any of that in the car.

Either that, or the train. Same advantages as plane, but possibly still not as quick.

Post by **indigolemon** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:15 pm

Confused wrote:Even if flying isn't any *quicker* overall, it's a lot less hassle than driving. Driving those distances is the last thing I'd want to be doing at the beginning and end of a working week.

With flying, you can read, watch a film, wander around the airport and get a coffee, or even sleep. You can't do any of that in the car.

Either that, or the train. Same advantages as plane, but possibly still not as quick.

I agree entirely, I think business travel has just sickened me of airports

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:10 pm

Airports suck.
Flying is a faff. Train is FAR simpler/easier
But...
The driving time is 4.5 hours (assuming roads clear!)
In this case, the train time is still around 4 hours

so although it's safer and more productive/relaxing, it doesn't actually save time or probably, money.
The flight time is about 1hr 10 mins, so allowing 1.5 hours for all the check in/boarding bollocks (more than sufficient on a short internal flight with only hand luggage and on-line check in?) and then half an hour to get out the other end, you're still saving well over an hour.

HS2 FTW, when it arrives!!!

Post by **Merlin** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 5:13 pm

Damn it I want a Rover 75 as a winter car now

Post by **Doggo** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 6:11 pm

indigolemon wrote:The Saab 9-3's (1.9) are Fiat based engines I believe, they're very good. The 2.2 is a GM lump, from a tractor, from 1950.

For a monstrous Burn, that's unusually low key.

Lude Generation

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