WTF?? Campervans?!?
Hold it for a sec.....
Why the fuck are there so many people wanting to campervan around NZ?
FFS!

Just what we need - more slab-sided Hummer-wide behemoths clogging up our hopelessly inadequate and generally dangerous roads, travelling 30k below the speed limit (or 70k below if they're taking on the Karangahake Gorge), two wheels over the white line and throwing up road metal and ruining the paintwork and overheating the engines on the poor bastards in the first 3 cars behind them in a tailback stretching all the way to Maramarua with utterly no chance of ever getting past them, and then they get into a supremacy duel with a caravan being towed by a bronchial 1100cc 1981 Mitsubishi Lancer driven by a geriatric wearing a bowling hat with the noddy-head dog in the back window next to the tissue box with the frilly cover on it....

Lets not even mention milk tankers or crap tankers (ie stock trucks.....)

Sigh.
Please don't make it any more miserable/frustrating/dangerous for the other NZ drivers than it already is.
Hire a car. Stay in a motel.
There's less chance of having your vehicle broken into and all your stuff pinched this way.

There - that should dent the tourist industry.
Clean, green, & 100% pure my ass!

BTW can anyone explain why it is that people so keen on saving the environment always seem to drive around in British hacks from the 1960s and 70s, dropping oil everywhere and with smoky exhausts that leave a much larger carbon footprint than the average Chinese factory?
(Sebulba continues to fight evil with evil....., Wed 20 Oct 2010, 11:43, 14 replies)

Hmmm.
I wasn't planning on something like that before. Now because of your post, I'll make certain to do it at some point. And bring along some friends, all in their own van, and we'll do it en convoy.

This should be fun.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 20 Oct 2010, 12:03, closed)

yes
... and look out for the real-Hummer Campervans to do it with.

/makes note for next trip back
(haberman is singing in the changes, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 12:05, closed)

Oh yes, the biggest, slowest ones on the market.

( jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 20 Oct 2010, 12:06, closed)

and fit wings
just to take up more road.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 12:16, closed)

Oh yes.
And for good measure, caravans. Lots of caravans.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 20 Oct 2010, 12:49, closed)

Morphing complete in 3.....2..... 1
I am now Jeremy Clarkson!
You will be greeted heartily with miniguns and flame throwers.
Enjoy your stay.......
;)
(Sebulba continues to fight evil with evil....., Thu 21 Oct 2010, 11:15, closed)

Because hippies have no money
And British hacks from the 60's and 70's are worth no money.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 12:46, closed)

I'm planning a trip to NZ in 2012
My girlfriend suggested hiring a camper van and doing the touring thing. I'm a lot less keen. I hate the things in the UK, so it would be hypocritical of me to upset the Kiwis.

Unless of course I hired one with a supercharged V10 in the front, and went haring around at breakneck speed in it. But I'm not sure such things exist, especially in the rental market.

On your BTW point - driving around in an old car is overall more environmentally friendly than buying a new one because of the energy used to make new cars, even though it's more polluting on a daily, local basis.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 13:28, closed)

Seriously
It wouldn't be so bad if our roads were better. Our roads are shite. And our drivers are shite. Courtesy on the road is literally a foreign concept. In the summer the conglomeration of campervans, caravans, and heavy trucks turns a slow congested mess into the 9th circle of hell. And sadly, it ain't gonna get better anytime soon.
Do it in the autumn. Traffic is lighter and the trees are prettier. And spend most of your time in the South Island - big place with only 1/4 of the population. :)
(Sebulba continues to fight evil with evil....., Thu 21 Oct 2010, 11:24, closed)

Maybe you should move to a country that looks shitty.
Then no one would want to visit it.

Plenty of space for you in Swindon!
(sabre-tooth monkey, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 13:29, closed)

S'ok
We've got South Auckland and Wainuiomata already.
(Sebulba continues to fight evil with evil....., Thu 21 Oct 2010, 11:16, closed)

.
Well I am happy to oblige when we visit in a couple of months we are hiring a car and staying in motels apart from the bit where we get married ..we get a hotel and a helicopter for that.
Will that do?
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:00, closed)

Excellent!
I'll tell Immigration to let you in with just a cursory glance at your passports!
(Sebulba continues to fight evil with evil....., Thu 21 Oct 2010, 11:17, closed)

carbon footprint?
If you look at how much energy it takes to produce a new car every 7 to 10 years and compare it to the inefficiencies in fuel use etc of running an older car, keeping the same car for 30 or 40 years probably wins out in terms of energy and resource consumption.
(unoriginal spluffed so hard it came out her nose on, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 1:20, closed)