RE: NC500-friendly Grand Tourers| Buy Hard

[Niffty951]

NC500 has to be a Griffith 500 right? Smell of fuel and leather, sound of the rover v8, torque for the hills, open top, comfy suspension for the miles.. It is 'the car' for that trip.

[herebebeasties]

Niffty951 said:

NC500 has to be a Griffith 500 right? Smell of fuel and leather, sound of the rover v8, torque for the hills, open top, comfy suspension for the miles.. It is 'the car' for that trip.

Good choice. Also excellent in an Elise provided you get on with the seats/driving position. Both are fast enough, compliant enough, narrow enough and roofless enough.

[Trfcok]

nomis36 said:

hornbaek said:

I did the NC500 in my newly restored V8 Vantage form 1978. I loved every bit of the trip but be prepared to have as many stone chips as dead moskitos on your front splitter after the tour. Worth every penny of a re-spray though.

You're the winner
I absolutely love old Astons, especially the V8 Vantage.

I'm planning to do the NC500 once all this covid stuff calms down. It'll be in my manual E92 330d. I can think of a lot more fun cars to do it in but it'll be better than a huge expensive GT car as i don't have to be too precious about it. Adequate power and a 5-600 mile range

I did it back in 2016 in my F30 330D. Not as exciting as some of these suggestions but I think pretty ideal for the circumstances. 45mpg plus on the long drive from Somerset and plenty of power for those hills. I really fancied doing it in one of my fun cars but after 4 days of sunshine going up the east coast we then had four days of rain along the top and down the west and I was glad to have a warm dry modern. Great trip. Don’t rush it.[

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Edited by Trfcok on Thursday 24th June 19:49

[monkfish1]

Ive found this to be a great choice.

Ok, maybe a bit more power would be good for overtaking, but as it is, you can push it hard, but you are not really going that fast, plenty of suspension travel, decent amount of sidewwall, and not very wide either.

I actually prefer it to when i took the maloo, which is big and stupid fast and as result, considerably less fun..

[velocemitch]

Been up a couple of times before it acquired its name. Also much of it a couple of years back in a Mini Metro in December!

When I go back I will use this, one of the original GT cars.

[Jex]

velocemitch said:

Been up a couple of times before it acquired its name. Also much of it a couple of years back in a Mini Metro in December!

When I go back I will use this, one of the original GT cars.

Great choice!