Morocco and back in my Mustang
Discussion
Well, got back on Sunday night from a bit of a road trip. Took my new Mustang GT to Casablanca and back. 3950 miles in total over 9 days, via Millau and Andorra.
How can i put this - the car is just superb. Total GT cruiser on the continent. Set cruise to a speed you are comfortable with, and sit back and watch the miles roll by. The car was totally effortless, and after 8-10 hours driving each day me and the copilot were tired, but not tired of the car.
The car caused a small stir whereever we went. In Millau we had kids on mopeds chasing us with camera phones. The amount of people who noticed the car was amazing. Loads of people would draw up beside us on motorways just to give us the thumbs up! Everyone knew it was a Mustang even though it doesn't actually say it on the car.
In Morocco, it got much worse. We were about to do a (legal) uturn and an oncoming Astra pulled a superb handbrake skid in front of us to close the road for our uturn!
I got busted for speeding twice (Spain and Morocco) and then jumped a set of reds by accident in Casa. So I had a chip on my shoulder somewhat.
We treated the car to a car wash in some dusty town in Morocco. These guys washed cars for a living and charged about £1.50 for a wash and wax. They even shamied the car down in the shade. To say they enjoyed washing something a bit different from the usual taxis was an understatement. (We tipped them by the way - considering the Mustang was twice the size of anything else in they washed).
Overall though, absolutely stunning few days. Here are a couple of the pics.
How can i put this - the car is just superb. Total GT cruiser on the continent. Set cruise to a speed you are comfortable with, and sit back and watch the miles roll by. The car was totally effortless, and after 8-10 hours driving each day me and the copilot were tired, but not tired of the car.
The car caused a small stir whereever we went. In Millau we had kids on mopeds chasing us with camera phones. The amount of people who noticed the car was amazing. Loads of people would draw up beside us on motorways just to give us the thumbs up! Everyone knew it was a Mustang even though it doesn't actually say it on the car.
In Morocco, it got much worse. We were about to do a (legal) uturn and an oncoming Astra pulled a superb handbrake skid in front of us to close the road for our uturn!
I got busted for speeding twice (Spain and Morocco) and then jumped a set of reds by accident in Casa. So I had a chip on my shoulder somewhat.
We treated the car to a car wash in some dusty town in Morocco. These guys washed cars for a living and charged about £1.50 for a wash and wax. They even shamied the car down in the shade. To say they enjoyed washing something a bit different from the usual taxis was an understatement. (We tipped them by the way - considering the Mustang was twice the size of anything else in they washed).
Overall though, absolutely stunning few days. Here are a couple of the pics.
Sounds like a real blast
I've owned my '05 GT for 13 months and done 20k of totally trouble free miles, but not driven it on continent yet. Considering trip to Nurburgring in summer if I can summon the cash. Anyone arranging anything?
Did Cardiff to Harrogate on Friday. Returned to car at Tamworth services on M42 overhearing exchange between 2 small boys and mother as follows:
5yr old: "look Mummy a Ferrari!!"
7yr old: "that's not a Ferrari.......it's a MUSTANG!!!!!!!!"
Mother: "Come, come boys it's only a car........."
Obviously this prompted me to give it some welly, with the boys punching the air in delight as they climbed into mum's Honda people carrier......
I've owned my '05 GT for 13 months and done 20k of totally trouble free miles, but not driven it on continent yet. Considering trip to Nurburgring in summer if I can summon the cash. Anyone arranging anything?
Did Cardiff to Harrogate on Friday. Returned to car at Tamworth services on M42 overhearing exchange between 2 small boys and mother as follows:
5yr old: "look Mummy a Ferrari!!"
7yr old: "that's not a Ferrari.......it's a MUSTANG!!!!!!!!"
Mother: "Come, come boys it's only a car........."
Obviously this prompted me to give it some welly, with the boys punching the air in delight as they climbed into mum's Honda people carrier......
monkey43 said:
I've owned my '05 GT for 13 months and done 20k of totally trouble free miles, but not driven it on continent yet. Considering trip to Nurburgring in summer if I can summon the cash. Anyone arranging anything?
The continent is great with the GT. Dial in your cruise speed or the fuel consumption rate you are happy with and sit back and let the car do the work. And even then, it doesn't feel like the car is working particulary hard.
We have plans to do a StreetSafari event later this year for normal cars, and we might pop into the ring to see what its all about
thats the sort of road trip i'd love to do, and one of the reasons i traded my gorgeous but high milage thirdgen camaro for my low milage mustang, it might just be a humble lil V6 but i fully intend to venture further into europe in it, probably to my parents place in southern spain..
so far the furthest abroad i've been in it is St Omar in france....
so far the furthest abroad i've been in it is St Omar in france....
Edited by philoldsmobile on Wednesday 4th April 21:31
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