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2002 Mercedes-Benz Atego 
Class: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin: 
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◊ 2007-02-01 23:54 |
The vehicle details for NV51 YHS are: Date of Liability 01 02 2007 Date of First Registration 19 02 2002 Year of Manufacture 2002 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 4250CC CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type Heavy Oil Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status Licence Due to Expire Vehicle Colour WHITE |
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◊ 2007-02-02 00:15 |
The truck as a kind of role, but I think it still does not deserve more than the status of "background car": Amanda (Cameron Diaz) was already a little frightened when she crossed the Xantia on this small road, so when she sees this truck coming...  |
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◊ 2007-02-02 00:20 |
Americans probably aren't used to our narrow country lanes and this is still a proper road rather than a real narrow country lane (the kind that have little laybys drivers go into so someone coming the other way can pass), imagine driving a Hummer down one of those... But an old Mini could go through that gap with no trouble whatsoever. -- Last edit: 2007-02-02 00:24:56 |
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◊ 2007-02-02 00:49 |
Isn't it true that they used to have roads in parts of Belgium and France that had 3 lanes, with the middle lane as an overtaking lane that was used by cars going in BOTH directions? I remember reading about it in Bill Bryson's book Neither Here Nor There, "the driver would zip into the middle lane and seem geniunely astonished to find a 40-ton truck bearing down on us like something out of a Roadrunner cartoon." I wonder how Cameron Diaz would react to that if a road like this fazes her. |
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◊ 2007-02-02 01:02 |
We had that in Germany, too. I remember a three-lane-route near where I live, that hasn't been secured until late 80's. |
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◊ 2007-02-02 01:06 |
It sounds like total lunacy! Maybe it was alright in the post-war years when there weren't too many cars on the road and people only did about 40 mph. |
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◊ 2007-02-02 10:51 |
I do not think that in Belgium there are such roads, but I already saw that on vacation... maybe it was in France. |
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◊ 2007-02-02 15:39 |
Since 2 months we have it in Holland!!! http://www.stefanuzz.nl/n50/opening/ I've seen it in Germany too, route: Sauerland -> Luxembourg. -- Last edit: 2007-02-02 15:41:33 |
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◊ 2007-02-02 15:48 |
 that's not the same thing as what G-MANN mentionned: there is no risk of getting a car coming in front of you |
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◊ 2007-02-02 16:10 |
We have that roads with three lines in Spain |
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◊ 2007-02-05 16:24 |
Hmm, I have read it to quick then... |
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◊ 2007-03-27 21:32 |
Hello, I'm new here. I remember most roads between cities in Belgium (Flanders, anyway) were like that in the 70's & 80's. It actually worked, just (like G-MANN says)as long as there is not too much traffic. In today's heavy traffic it would be too dangerous, that's way most (if not all) were changed in the 90's to standard 2-lane design. If you're in Belgium and wonder why some road are abnormally wide, or have a center lane crossed out with diagonal stripes, that used to be one of those roads... Indeed, trying to pass a long truck with a slow-slow 1981 Opel Ascona 1.3 and then seeing a truck coming the other way, towards you... brings back chilling memories :-/ Now, please excuse me for a moment, while I curl up in a corner and shiver until that flash-back has disappeared. |
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◊ 2007-03-27 21:40 |
Thanks for the info .gif ";)") I am a too young driver to have known that |
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◊ 2007-03-27 21:50 |
Yeah I know, I'm getting old. 34... Look on the bright side: it's down hill from here on. |
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◊ 2007-03-27 21:56 |
I can confirm that. There were a lot of 3 lane roads in Belgium back in the 60's-70's, like the N7 near where I live. It's now a 2 lane road with a spare in the middle. |
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