Longest Drive

Looking through my tracker I have uncovered some of the awesome roadtrips I did.

The longest drive I ever did was from evesham to Portsmouth to Bournemouth to Weymouth to Exeter to Weston and back to evesham. stopping at every place on the way! and for pee's, with 5 people in the passion wagon, driving along cost roads most of the way, was an awesome day!

All in all I did 9 hours of driving and we spent alot of time pissing about so it meant a 5AM to 11PM drive And this was a month after i passed and with no stripes!!

2 French cars went and a Ford Fiesta... The ford broke down... Twice

I'm going to miss the Passion wagon



anywayyy, i know some of you can beat that whats the longest drive you have done??

in one go? Munich to Swansea in 23 hours including a 4 hour sleep and hour and a bit on a ferry. Or Berlin to Swansea in 16 hours with hour and abit ferry. no sleep.

longest in total combined was Swansea-Calais-'Ring-Munich-Berlin-Swansea in 7 days. 2200miles in total.

And all in a Fiesta. No break downs.

Holy scrotum! Thats a long way

I actually think it was to Llandow :/ I need to get out and drive more..

Dan wrote:

And all in a Fiesta. No break downs.

the 1.25 fiesta that was with us was an eBay purchase for £300, it was smogging us with white smoke all the way home

R.I.P

i'm not a great fan of long journeys after all that driving. Really does put you off.

Longest I did was only 3 months after passing my test.

Was in my Escort 1.6 Si and did Isle of Mull > Cirencester in one hit, well, with a fuel stop along the way. About 500 miles. I think it took about 10 hours including the ferry crossing.

Had a certain Reechard as company who spent most of the journey asleep. lol.

Bah I at least left the dvd player going

Um my longest is probably cirencester-coventry-norwich, followed by the next day going norwich-nottingham-middlesborough because of my dad having a heart attack.

Passengering it has to be a coach trip to Germany where Jimmy kept half the coach awake for 23hours! Was an eventful following day.

Germany to Glasgow, 800+ miles, left Germany at 8pm, got into Glasgow at 5pm the following day! Hardcore pro-plus day!

I used to do this on a regular basis when I lived in Germany, although most of the time I'd get the ferry from Zeebrugge to Edinburgh over night which worked out about 5 hours of driving.

Reechard wrote:

Bah I at least left the dvd player going

Um my longest is probably cirencester-coventry-norwich, followed by the next day going norwich-nottingham-middlesborough because of my dad having a heart attack.

Passengering it has to be a coach trip to Germany where Jimmy kept half the coach awake for 23hours! Was an eventful following day.

Who knew that Rammstein had the power to make me fall asleep!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o0mVxyj_8o

Ahh the memories. Yes the next day was interesting but at least I stuck around and looked after you!

Oh hai, I see my thread's arrived

In one go, was leaving Somerset at 1am, getting down to Dover for a 6am ferry, a one hour crossing and then on to arrive at Adenau at 4pm. We did have a couple of stops along the way mind.

In a week, well...

Land's End to John o'Groats, with no motorway or dual carriageway driving, 5 days, 1400 miles
Back down to Somerset on the motorways, 2 days, 800 miles, with an overnight at Crewe
Somerset>Dover>Nurburgring>Amsterdam>Mulhouse>Reims>Dover>Somerset, 7 days, 2000 miles
And most recently of course Somerset>Dover>Spa>Nurburgring>Mulhouse>Swiss Alps>Lake Como>Monaco>Montpellier>Millau>Dijon>Reims>Dover>Somerset (phew!), 9 days, 2800 miles

I may have also driven to Holland once to pick up a carpet for me car. LOL.

longest drive ive done is down to the alps in one go.

although ive done 65k in 12 months in my company car. it went for its first mot today on 117K!

Birmingham to glasgow and back is the longest point to point route l can remember. 18 hours around the uk is my longest drive though. Cant remember where l went it was work.

Jamesy will have some good ones lol

Weston??

Longest drive I've been in a car for was:

Gloucester to Watchet,
Watchet to Gloucester (what numpty forgets his passport for a Nurburgring trip?),
Gloucester to Bristol,
Bristol to Dover.

Left home at 7 in the morning, I think we ended up getting to the Travel lodge at around 6? Ate, slept, then carried on to the 'Ring the next day. Epic week.

Longest I've actually drove myself is up to York Raceway, took a good 4 hours or so... In my old 1.1. That was the weekend I properly fell in love with that car, wasn't even going to take it til 3 days before!

LOL

I read the first line and thought 'what the hell were you doing in Watchet?'

Then I read the rest

Lol! Was a top week though, the drive from the hotel to Dover will always stick in my head, as well as the tunnel runs!

James... Ever thought about driving around the world!

If you do I call shotgun

Well, it's being getting further and further as the years progress.

It's all a long way off but to get some of my goals achieved, my current plan looks like this:

2012, similar to this year, need to do Monaco again, want to tick Stelvio off the list
2013, USA side to side, probably fly over and hire a car, do Route 66
2014, Japan top to bottom, again hire a car, or maybe do a Top Gear challenge and buy something cheap on Ebay to pick up when I get there, haha

*sigh, I envy you bank balance

I wouldn't, there's nothing left in it

My top tip for life would be to live with your parents as long as possible. Look where it's got me

Probably Lincoln to Edinbrough to change a drive shaft on a 106

drove from Lincoln to Wiltshire on Saturday to pick mums new car up 220 miles to get a sodding Yaris Verso of all cars!

Why the hell would anyone buy a Yaris Verso? Most pointless car ever!

I did Gloucester to John o' groats and back again.. 1220miles..
During the ash cloud problem a year or so back, my girlfriends mum rang us saying her flight back from the orkneys had been cancelled, so without hesitation, yeah I'll drive up... LOL

Anyone beat that?

LOL, I remember that, an M5 as in BMW M5 though? I thought you were in a Corsa for some reason?

I have absolutely no idea why I wrote that.. Sleep depravation! Too many forums, too late haha



Corsa dials James :p

There you go, all of these miles in a day haha, 5% of that cars total mileage in a day haha!