In Greece, ppl are crazy, this is reflected everywhere, in the street as well.
They are agressive drivers and most of them are driving their cars to the limit.
Sometimes, to avoid a difficult situation, caused by a hothead driver, who is trying to be a Schumacher with his small urban car, you need a car that can outrun or outbrake him with ease, in order to make up in the last moment for his error in judgement and miscalculation, after a sloppy and rushed decision.
You rarely see those vast multi line drive ways you have there. Our roads are curvy and poorly made, acceleration is the major factor here, because most the small urban cars are light and because everyone is forced to decrease speed often and a lot, to take those tight corners.
On holidays, we are abandoning large cities all together, from Athens there are moments that 2-3 million cars are trying to get away from the city or return, in the same day.
In the same time and we form huge queues towards the national street high-ways. Its like nascar race sometimes out there.
Besides those, you get large transport tracks moving really slow (like 8miles/h in slow curbes) and creating long convoys of cars behind them, who are trying to find the right curve that will allow to overtake them.
Now, i can afford a better car than most. All my life i had cars of average performances and the local Schumachers desperate to make as many overtakes as possible, were forcing me to reach their limits at certain times, with their stupidity and dangerous driving. Now i can finally extend my cars capabilities and have an extra option.
When there are a lot of cars and one lane to use, with many drivers of different pace, the overtakes can become frenetic. So everybody pushes to their limit, in an efford to avoid the swarm.
Its hard to explain if you dont experience those moments your self and i wish you never have to live them
Slow cumbersome and long diesel cars that live in long high ways, find no purpose in Greece. Even the German cars who appoach this mentality are at some time in disadvantage.
Thats why we rely on light and smaller European and Japan cars, who cannot make comfortable state long journeys, but drive through our snake form sort lanes with ease.
Gearboxes and brakes are overused and their performance, along with acceleration are generally more appreciate than comfort at high speed driving.
Greece in particular has many sea side roads and as you aproach the center, its full on mountains, esp in my region, so you cant have straight long highways, because of the terrain, under those circumstances you learn to apreciate the acceleration, quite a lot.
Up until last month, diesel cars were not allowed for public use in Greece, the were considered too slow and unpractical. A completely different mindset and driving mentalities, than the typical American driver may have.
A hatchback ford focus sized car, is considered a family car in Greece. Wagons are unexistent and the tailed coupes are considered limo class, as far as dimensions are concerned.
They are agressive drivers and most of them are driving their cars to the limit.
Sometimes, to avoid a difficult situation, caused by a hothead driver, who is trying to be a Schumacher with his small urban car, you need a car that can outrun or outbrake him with ease, in order to make up in the last moment for his error in judgement and miscalculation, after a sloppy and rushed decision.
You rarely see those vast multi line drive ways you have there. Our roads are curvy and poorly made, acceleration is the major factor here, because most the small urban cars are light and because everyone is forced to decrease speed often and a lot, to take those tight corners.
On holidays, we are abandoning large cities all together, from Athens there are moments that 2-3 million cars are trying to get away from the city or return, in the same day.
In the same time and we form huge queues towards the national street high-ways. Its like nascar race sometimes out there.
Besides those, you get large transport tracks moving really slow (like 8miles/h in slow curbes) and creating long convoys of cars behind them, who are trying to find the right curve that will allow to overtake them.
Now, i can afford a better car than most. All my life i had cars of average performances and the local Schumachers desperate to make as many overtakes as possible, were forcing me to reach their limits at certain times, with their stupidity and dangerous driving. Now i can finally extend my cars capabilities and have an extra option.
When there are a lot of cars and one lane to use, with many drivers of different pace, the overtakes can become frenetic. So everybody pushes to their limit, in an efford to avoid the swarm.
Its hard to explain if you dont experience those moments your self and i wish you never have to live them
Slow cumbersome and long diesel cars that live in long high ways, find no purpose in Greece. Even the German cars who appoach this mentality are at some time in disadvantage.
Thats why we rely on light and smaller European and Japan cars, who cannot make comfortable state long journeys, but drive through our snake form sort lanes with ease.
Gearboxes and brakes are overused and their performance, along with acceleration are generally more appreciate than comfort at high speed driving.
Greece in particular has many sea side roads and as you aproach the center, its full on mountains, esp in my region, so you cant have straight long highways, because of the terrain, under those circumstances you learn to apreciate the acceleration, quite a lot.
Up until last month, diesel cars were not allowed for public use in Greece, the were considered too slow and unpractical. A completely different mindset and driving mentalities, than the typical American driver may have.
A hatchback ford focus sized car, is considered a family car in Greece. Wagons are unexistent and the tailed coupes are considered limo class, as far as dimensions are concerned.
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