Evo does a highland hoon

[willisit]

mikey k said:

No need to
some times we meander up through Northumberland
Others through the lakes

Edited by mikey k on Sunday 29th March 18:15

The Lakes sounds good. I'm on the South Coast and we have some nice roads here - but nothing quite like Scotland.

[ds2000]

Enjoyed that. Wish there was a train in London to throw the car on to get to Scotland. The M6 is not so much fun from all the way down here

[Jonsv8]

I've thought about the video a fair bit and it embodies a lot of what Aston Martin Means to me. Somehow I could never see an f-type or a Porsche in that video. It's as if the driving the Aston makes you enjoy the place you drive it, it's made for those roads and its happy to share equal billing with the landscape rather than want, maybe even need, to be centre of the attention or fixated by a lap time.

[VEIGHT]

What a great video!

For those that have done this would the following be enough time?

Drive up from London to the start on Friday. Start the route Saturday and back to start. Drive back Sunday.

Can it be as simple as that?

[Zod]

He's right to compare it to North Yorkshire. I'll be driving there this weekend, but in the X5.

Must head up to do that military road in the Aston this summer.

[theaxe]

VEIGHT said:

What a great video!

For those that have done this would the following be enough time?

Drive up from London to the start on Friday. Start the route Saturday and back to start. Drive back Sunday.

Can it be as simple as that?

Depends when you leave on the Friday I think.

[Phil74891]

Looks an awful lot like the Isle of Man........ok, so not as many roads - but no speed limits

[VEIGHT]

theaxe said:

Depends when you leave on the Friday I think.

Thinking about 7AM?

[Lefty]

VEIGHT said:

theaxe said:

Depends when you leave on the Friday I think.

Thinking about 7AM?

It's a great road but if I was comng up from London I'd make a long weekend of it and try some more of the awesome roads up here. Do the Applecross peninsula and Northwest loop then along the very North Coast and back down to Inverness then South via the 939 again.

[speech]

Great road and great car. I've been wanting to take the Aston up there since the scenes in Skyfall. I'm going to Edinburgh next month so might have to check out the Old Military Road, although sadly in a hire car rather than the Aston.

Not sure about the presenter though, his voice was putting me to sleep and he barely spent 2 minutes talking about the car and the rest of it was about how much he loved the road.

[MollyGT3]

speech said:

Not sure about the presenter though, his voice was putting me to sleep and he barely spent 2 minutes talking about the car and the rest of it was about how much he loved the road.

The presenter was Henry Catchpole, famed EVO journalist, and the series, I believe, is about favourite roads rather than the cars used on them. Henry is IMHO a very nice chap and Rob & I were fortunate enough to meet him & other EVO stalwarts, Richard Meaden & Jethro Bovingdon etc. 3 years ago on location in North Wales. We have some great photos of HC driving our Vantage S and some very fond memories of our car appearing in EVO in a group test. We were very lucky to spend a couple of days on location with them:


http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...


Thanks for posting Jon, we are off to drive these same roads in Scotland later this month too and really looking forward to it

Edited by MollyGT3 on Wednesday 1st April 17:30

[XBOW]

The old military road is epic. Just watch out for the bikers if a nice day, as they really do fly along that stretch of road !

[GenialZ]

Evo have just done a piece on the 20 best Limited Edition cars.

http://www.evo.co.uk/features/15715/the-20-greates...

The N430 is in there at Number 20. Whilst the previous N series were limited I didn't think the 430 was?

[hashluck]

GenialZ said:

Evo have just done a piece on the 20 best Limited Edition cars.

http://www.evo.co.uk/features/15715/the-20-greates...

The N430 is in there at Number 20. Whilst the previous N series were limited I didn't think the 430 was?

Indeed it is not. I am not sure about several of the others either.

[BravoV8V]

hashluck said:

GenialZ said:

Evo have just done a piece on the 20 best Limited Edition cars.

http://www.evo.co.uk/features/15715/the-20-greates...

The N430 is in there at Number 20. Whilst the previous N series were limited I didn't think the 430 was?

Indeed it is not. I am not sure about several of the others either.

The M3 CS wasn't limited either. They just didn't sell many of them.

[theaxe]

theaxe said:

I tried to figure out the route using the video and this page from Evo, does this look about right?

Heading up on Friday, can't wait! Hope the weather holds out.