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Where we are on the Redcliffe peninsula is pretty quiet, loads of traffic everywhere else tho'... I really don't wanna own a car but it's essential out here...
People drive like maniacs, being overtaken by a huge double semi-trailer going well over the speed limit is pretty frightening... Not looking forward to driving out on the highway very much...
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Hah yep tell me about it, the trucks just dwarf anything you'll see in Europe.
Luckily since there are no dual carriageways in NZ South Island I have never been overtaken by a truck (except in town where they put cycle lanes on the same road as logging trucks?!)Drivers are pretty mental in Aus yeah. Had someone pull over into a layby to let me pass, then held the horn down and just pulled back in as I was passing. Then I got undertaken by a minibus doing maybe 130 outside Wagga Wagga, never seen that manoeuvre before. Lots of people doing literally 30km/hr in 100 zones too. I guess you've just got to be super-defensive - being a cyclist helps.
If/when you go back to the UK you won't be one of those mentalists that's anxious about their 1hr30m 'long drive' to see a relative. It's weird listening to people moan about an hour's drive from one city to another... mate I live six hours from the nearest city.
EDIT - You didn't answer my question though, Ford or Holden?
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Incidentally I found driving in Australia to be a lot like driving in the UK - traffic, big multi-lane highways, roundabouts, spaghetti junctions etc. Didn't go into the empty bit though. Now, driving in NZ is very, very different. State Highway 1 - the equivalent of the M1 - is a single-track road in places. A few years ago it was still a gravel road in places.