Round here they are known as grockle boxes > Don't tell anyone, but I do think a good retro one looks cool
As said above, its a traffic thing for me, that said, a landrover pulling a caravan is most likely alot quicker than me pootling along in my bay. The 12' wide one is probably a static caravan, people buy caravans that can only be moved by a large lorry and generally they don't move at all, its like having a chalet somewhere that you can pop off to for a week or weekend, but the planning laws for the places that have them are different because they are not a permanent structure.
It's in our genetic make up, until you hit 50 we consider that caravans should only be allowed on road between 1 & 5am. After 50 you kinda think the comfort and heat would be nice, when you hit 65 you buy one for your retirement. By this time you are refusing to accept you need to go back to the optician and think its ok to sit at 60 mph in the middle lane as your not breaking the speed limit like those pesky kids....they drive me nuts....
Why do I hate caravans? M5 southbound between j17 & j22 every Friday night on the way home from work, herds of the bloody things. They cause gridlock and a lot of the people towing them don't have a clue
Move to England and you'll have your answer. We live on a tiny island with ever restrictive speed limits and poorly maintained roads. You can literally sit for hours on an A road (US Highway) behind lines of caravans doing 40 miles an hour. Normally they are towed behind cars which are not suitable for the job, engine too small, mass of car too small versus the mass of the caravan etc etc. Then there is the driver. They either don't put on mirrors so can't see what's behind them, or don't pull over when they see a train of hundreds of cars behind, they hog the middle lane of the motorway, pull across lanes without checking, or cause some of the worst accidents and traffic jams ever. 9 times out of 10 they do this on the busiest weekends of the year when everybody else wants a nice relaxed time. Caravanners always look miserable The caravans and their owners generally smell of wet dog, old spice,pi55 and wurthers mints. I hate caravans with a vengeance >
Dear Baywatcher Can I just say this A CAMPER is a VW split ,T2 and just maybe T25 anything else is a caravan (towed), a motorhome (large or small) or a tent. I don't hate caravans just the idots you find at the wheel who never give way when they have a mile of traffic behind them. then when they get to the site they unpacked their entire house bar the bricks and roof tiles.
For me it's because caravans are synonymous with caravan parks. These are huge great swathes of concreted land, with caravans packed in to the rafters and full of people who get to their caravan, put the telly and the kettle on....and that's it. Literally their ENTIRE holiday spent watching telly in a tiny space or sitting just outside their door on their patch of concrete watching other people doing exactly the same thing. I hate, hate, HATE it.
I like the idea of a caravan but its the people They will only go to places they have been before or they rece it out first so they know they can tow it there. They must have a hard standing The first thing they do is set up the tv The site must have hook up. It must have good facilities (dont get this one as they have a bathroom near as big as my house in the van) why spend £20k for a fully self contained carvan then only go to fully equipped expansive sites