Going for a drive on Christmas day

[nosittap]

I'm seriously thinking of going for a drive early tomorrow morning and taking advantage of what I presume will be very empty roads.

The family will be asleep till around 9/10ish, I always wake up at stupid O'Clock anyway, the North Yorkshire Moors are only 20 minutes away and I'm finding it hard to find reasons not to, except rain, seems like a good idea to me.

So PH, any others out there planning a Christmas hoon? Anyone done it in previous years?

[RikZR]

Yep, I'll be out tomorrow in the trusty steed taking advantage of the hopefully empty roads in Cambridgeshire! quite looking forward to that festive razz about!

And yes I done it last year too, although it was to 'test' the new golf ball gear knob I got given as a gift for my Golf GTI I had!

Enjoy your festive hoon OP, I sure will be!

[Mars]

I used to plan to have an hour or more at the wheel of my Caterham and Cerbera on Christmas day and during any football final.

I don't have a sportscar at the mo, so I won't clutter up the roads tomorrow.

[gforceg]

Yep, if the weather is half decent we'll be out for a top-down blast in my GF's MX5. Dartmoor is 10 minutes away so it'd be rude not to.

[McSam]

I'm quite fortunate here - driving over to my fiancée's involves lots of nice, varied lanes that are rarely used much on a normal day! I'm obliged to go for a hoon.. Just have to hope my mum doesn't object to tail-happiness too much from the passenger seat

[illmonkey]

I have gone the long way to the other half's parents house the past few years. The roads are very quite so its just nice to drive without interruption.

[bobbo89]

I thought about it and then realised that after hitting the beer tonight, its really not worth potentially ruining my own and other peoples Christmas day.

[falkster]

I'll be doing the same but wife and two dogs strapped into the ML isn't quite what I had planned.

[AndyNetwork]

Won't be this year, but have been known to have a blast on Christmas Day Morning. Not much fun in Skoda Estate!!!

Anyway, a word to the wise - 2 years ago on New Years eve, a mate of mine went for a blast on the roads around Essex, and due to no fault of his own, ended up in hospital for 6 months, having nearly killed himself when his Skyline went for an unexpected tumble.

Fortunately, he's now recovered, but just take it easy, it's not just your behaviour that can cause you problems. In my mates case it was a nail on the road, which caused a blow out spinning his car off the road, and into a ditch, via a tree.

Enjoy your hoon (wish I had something worth hooning!) but be carefull, not worth the heartache any time of year, but particularly at this time of year.

[Willy Nilly]

I'll probably do 200 miles on christmas morning. It is always a really easy drive.

[Gruber]

I've got 120 miles on the M40, M42 and M6 to look forward to tomorrow morning, but I doubt that really counts...

[iva cosworth]

Yes,if it's not chucking it down as i will only go if it's top down weather in the Fiat

Watch this space for pics.........or not as the case may be

[carparkno1]

Xmas drive is a rule - if it's a slowish car, stick some Doves on and enjoy the peace. If it's a sporty motor, bang something loud on and go hooning all over.

[RacingBlue]

For the first time, I actually will be driving home for Christmas. Unfortunately, that doesn't make the drive in any way interesting - a joyless slog up the M40 for me...

[Stubby Pete]

gforceg said:

Yep, if the weather is half decent we'll be out for a top-down blast in my GF's MX5. Dartmoor is 10 minutes away so it'd be rude not to.

I'll be hooning on and around Dartmoor too. Look out for a ropey red MR2

[rohrl]

If you're going for a hoon tomorrow afternoon do bear in mind that a good proportion of your fellow road users will be drunk and give them a wider berth than usual.

[gforceg]

Stubby Pete said:

gforceg said:

Yep, if the weather is half decent we'll be out for a top-down blast in my GF's MX5. Dartmoor is 10 minutes away so it'd be rude not to.

I'll be hooning on and around Dartmoor too. Look out for a ropey red MR2

Will do! Fingers crossed for half good weather.

[crazy about cars]

Weather not too great...as expected but I went for a drive Roads are pretty busy where I am as I think some people are rushing for last minute sales. My reason was to go stock up food for Christmas but I took a very long detour :P

[ImpossiblyDaft]

Mars said:

I used to plan to have an hour or more at the wheel of my Caterham and Cerbera on Christmas day and during any football final.

I don't have a sportscar at the mo, so I won't clutter up the roads tomorrow.

Surely the gamble with that is that if you mistime it slightly you run the risk of coming across drink-drivers on their way back from the pub/lunch with the in-laws/etc. ?

[NiceCupOfTea]

I have the car, but not the time or the nice local roads if I lived a few minutes from the moors I would be all over that...