Last ride / drive

[entropy]

If you did not have long to live or about to succumb to terminal illness and you could have one last ride or drive a road legal car of your choice - what would it be? Real life stories are of course welcome.

Me personally, I'd like to think I would still have enough coordination to fling about a 90s Pug hot hatch and have a last ride in V12 and can't decide between Jag XJR-15, McLaren F1, or GMA T50?

[fizzwheel]

1985 Spec Audi Sport quattro S1 E2

[Obi Wan]

Aventador SV or Enzo or F50.

[swisstoni]

I'd want an F1 driver to give me a proper lap in one of those F1 2 seater demo cars.

[brillomaster]

Hmmm... a carrera GT, round spa francorchamps.

On a nice sunny day so I can get the roof down.

[Monkeylegend]

A black Mercedes hearse, I would love to drive myself to the crem.

[Skyedriver]

brillomaster said:

Hmmm... a carrera GT, round spa francorchamps.

On a nice sunny day so I can get the roof down.

Almost 40 years ago I arrived unknowingly at La Source on my way through to Germany in a 1961 Lotus 7 (fitted with a Twin Cam).
First, now ex, wife in the passenger seat, suitcase tied to the back with a second case in my mates Capri...

Photoshoot next to what used to be the pits between La Source and Eu Rouge then drive as much of the circuit as were then able to drive. Great memory.
Sunshine though, no, pissing down, had to dry all our clothes out at that evenings B&B. Nothing quite like sitting in a puddle while driving through Belgium.

[Robertb]

Ferrari 250 SWB California, somewhere balmy and picturesque.

[Monkeylegend]

I would also love to drive a police car under blue lights just to experience the road opening up in front of me as everyone scrambles to get out of my way as I jump red lights and smash the speed limits.

[InitialDave]

I probably wouldn't care too much about it being road legal!

But can I have a Porsche 917? While Burgess Meredith chases me in an F-86?

[InitialDave]

Robertb said:

Ferrari 250 SWB California, somewhere balmy and picturesque.

Or Chicago.

[MitchT]

I'd buy a Ferrari Testarossa, drive it to my favourite spot in Cornwall, then sell it and spend the proceeds on pasties which I'd eat on the beach.

[Mr E]

Someone once told me “d-type down the original mulsanne straight. Don’t brake for Virage”

[Benzinaio]

Key West to San Diego in a Cobra with Simone Ashley in the passenger seat.

[ZX10R NIN]

MV Augusta F4 Veltro Pista:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwY5AtQAI0o

[brownspeed]

easy one; DeLorean DMC12 installed with a flux capacitor. Hit 88mph and then go back to when you weren't ill.

[andy43]

I think probably a Honda Jazz. Reasonably high driving position, light controls, reliable and compact enough for the hospital carpark.

[Heaveho]

Spa or the IOM in my Evo. I've enjoyed doing both in that car in the past enough to know it would be all I'd want.

[Vsix and Vtec]

A Jaguar XJ220 in Spa Silver, with Dove Grey interior.

Nothing else I've ever seen or driven has ever come close. I will never understand why this car is still so "cheap" compared to it's peers of the era (F40, Countach, etc). To me it's one of it not THE most beautiful car ever made. I've been fortunate enough to be in the presence of a few in my years, and the aura of the thing is astonishing. Photos scarcely do justice to the physical impact of seeing it with your own eyes and standing next to one. Yes it doesn't have the V12 concept promised, yes it's only RWD instead of 4WD, but none of that matters to me, I'd have one in a heartbeat over anything else ever created.

[Nickp82]

F40 not a shadow of doubt