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> boot load of fruits in boxes Hard to believe that the 100 gallon boot volumes of a small sedan are insufficient for a weekly fruit&veg shop - let alone the 3
by MagnumOpus 5y ago
> boot load of fruits in boxes
Hard to believe that the 100 gallon boot volumes of a small sedan are insufficient for a weekly fruit&veg shop - let alone the 300 gallon boot of an estate car or the 400 gallon boot that a compact car has if you take the 30 seconds to lay down the rear seats before you load it...
And being a bit older, I do remember being driven into summer holidays with a family with 3 children, luggage and an inflatable rubber boat - in a Fiat 126 (half the length, half the width, and a quarter of the weight of today's giant pick-ups and Escalades...
- p2t2p 5y agohttps://photos.app.goo.gl/NkXauuz2vUALRafq6 https://photos.app.goo.gl/NkXauuz2vUALRafq6 this is what my wife goes through in two weeks. That's boot of my Subi Forester and that is not the fullest it is ever been. During mango season we even take a bit of passenger space. That box of oranges is was 5 AUDs btw.
- thatfrenchguy 5y agoIn the rest of the world you just fold your seats or stack your stuff better?
- p2t2p 5y ago“Stack your stuff better” doesn’t sit well with soft mangoes and “just fold your seats” doesn’t sit well with children in child seats in the second row. Practice is often different from theory. Now having written that and looking at you user handle I realise that you might think that mangoes are firm and you can stack it. Well, those firm mangoes you see in super markets are not ripe, they are green. Ripe mangoes we buy here in Australia are soft, you can damage them with you fingers and I would like to keep them for at least couple weeks.