V70 cupholder

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Tim said:
I find that stains the alloys somewhat, and is a very bad idea in high
winds...
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But only if you are facing into the wind. There's an old saying
about that... maybe the saying even warrants proverb status :)
 
I'm with Geoff here. In all the hundreds of thousands of miles I've
spent in cars, I've never once found that I need something to put cups
in. I find it hard to think of anything less useful in a car, but
judging by the number of posts we get in here about them, some people
find them indispensible.
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I use them all the time.

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Stewart said:
Presumably they are meant for people whose lives are so rushed that
they have to leave for work before they've finished their breakfast.
How does the contents not get spilled during cornering or braking?
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The "rushed" (disorganized?) people are probably the target market.

Personally I like having somewhere to put a drink on an hours long
drive. There are a lot of very straight, boring roads in the US,
where, shall we say, less than one's complete and full attention is
required to safely operate a car. In the big scheme of things, the
speed limits are not all that high over here (vary from 55-75 mph).

About the only roads I have seen in the UK were two lanes from the
inside of a bus - this would be a good time to pay attention to one's
driving. I don't know how your fast highways compare to ours, or of
course, how your experience compares to mine.
Given that in the UK it is now illegal to use a hand held mobile phone
whilst driving, I can see our current administration getting ready to
ban cups, too.
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Hands-free mobile phones are billed as safer over here. My opinion
is they probably aren't any less distracting, and those who crash
using a cellphone would probably get distracted playing with the car
radio or something else if they didn't have a phone.
Maybe next year's model will have a little sink and a plate rack, too.
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Heheh... :)

Are DVD players a hit in family vehicles over there? They are
increasingly common over here. Why discipline your children and make
them behave when they can be tranquilized by expensive electronics,
right? </sarcasm>
 
I find cupholders quite handy. My 945TG has 4 cupholders, and all were used
this evening (2 coffees and 2 kids juices) on the way to a basketball game.
My Expedition 4x4 has 8, and all get exercised regularly, with either a
drink or cellphone or the remote for the TV/VCR/DVD, etc.
 
So is stopping and walking around the car and taking a whiz.
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As I noted in my previous post, in a part you snipped, stopping every
couple of hours would have made a 16-hour trip a 20-hour one. Perhaps
you have that luxury; it is not universal.

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Michael Wojcik [email protected]

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Years Eve drinking alone, playing video games and sobbing uncontrollably.
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About the only roads I have seen in the UK were two lanes from the
inside of a bus - this would be a good time to pay attention to one's
driving. I don't know how your fast highways compare to ours, or of
course, how your experience compares to mine.
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The UK motorways I've seen - around London and in Kent (I've driven
to Cumbria, but that was nearly 20 years ago) - are mostly three
lanes of travel in each direction, with moderate to heavy traffic
including regular jams at peak commuting times, speed limit typically
75 MPH (is this true everywhere?) but with considerable variation in
actual vehicle speeds, moderately aggressive driving. They remind me
of Route 128 around Boston (which is not as bad as it's reputed to be,
IMO).

Of course, it's not as common in the UK as it is here to set off on a
16-hour drive. And I don't know if there's any stretch of road there
that compares to, say, I-80 through Nebraska for sheer dullness.

--
Michael Wojcik [email protected]

The surface of the word "profession" is hard and rough, the inside mixed with
poison. It's this that prevents me crossing over. And what is there on the
other side? Only what people longingly refer to as "the other side".
-- Tawada Yoko (trans. Margaret Mitsutani)
 
The UK motorways I've seen - around London and in Kent (I've driven
to Cumbria, but that was nearly 20 years ago) - are mostly three
lanes of travel in each direction, with moderate to heavy traffic
including regular jams at peak commuting times, speed limit typically
75 MPH (is this true everywhere?) but with considerable variation in
actual vehicle speeds, moderately aggressive driving. They remind me
of Route 128 around Boston (which is not as bad as it's reputed to be,
IMO).

Of course, it's not as common in the UK as it is here to set off on a
16-hour drive. And I don't know if there's any stretch of road there
that compares to, say, I-80 through Nebraska for sheer dullness.
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Universal motorway speed limit is 70mph, nowhere is higher than that.
Lots of urban motorway sections have local 50mph limits.

At peak times it is generally hard to cruise at all, which makes autos
a major bonus. Lots of times you just shuffle along between 0 and
30mph.

At quiet times it is easy to set the cruise at 85. You will be
overtaken by cars doing well over 100. Quality of motorway driving
varies from quite good (early morning, late evening) to dreadful (rush
hours, weekends). It's noticeable when the 'professional drivers' are
out as opposed to weekend drivers and white-van-man.


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Tim Hobbs

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bras are like coffee cups no good unless there is something in them .


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