"nightjar .me.uk" cpb@insert my surname here wrote in message
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"tam" wrote in message
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Hi all who know most about everything European.
My wife absolutely refuses to fly and I am not going by train or bus.
I want to drive from Bonnie Scotland to much
warmer-southern-anywhere-probably- Spain in January coming back April.
Will it be better value for money buying a vehicle in France or Holland
to drive down.
I intend to use it to drive around Europe over the next 2 or 3 years.
I was thinking of a big tank like the Toyota Landcruiser Amazon although
I m a bit concerned about the meadieval Spanish towns.

IME, in a big 4x4, it is almost irrelevant which side the steering wheel
is on, unless you are in the habit of driving too close behind other
vehicles. So, you could consider buying in the UK and both getting a
chance to find out if there are any faults with the vehicle before your
trip and getting used to the size in an area you are familair with. I have
had an interesting moment in a French village, taking a trailer down a
steep 3m wide road, which met a similar width road at a T junction, with a
deep ditch on the inside of the corner, where familiarity with where the
vehicle corners were was rather important.

Had some exciting times on the coast road in the Beemer at the med
Spanish-French border because of not seeing round the corners in my RHD but
of course I was low on the road.
I see Ford V6 petrol 4x4s are dirt cheap in the UK-if I got one with a gas
conversion is gas available in France and Spain.

Diesel Toyotas and Nissans appear to be over priced in the UK ie 100000 mile
Landcruiser 10 years old £3000-£4500 depending on condition.

On the trailer thing- my nephew had a head on coming together with a Transit
pulling a builders trailer last week.
He was in his Range Rover they had to cut the door off to get him out.
He only had bruises and whiplash.

Thats a good point about testing/familiarisation in the UK and I have my
fully equipped work shop here.
Tam