Lambo road trip article
Discussion
in the 1st Jan 2003 edition of Autocar. Murcielago and an RS Focus do 5000 miles across Europe. Nice article and well worth a read. Both cars come out looking good. For those who haven't seen it, the Lambo was clocked at 206mph and was a bit scary in the wet (you don't say! 
). Focus kept up pretty well, the Lambo only showing its heels on the autobahn and at the Nordschleife. Average for Murcielago- 10 mpg; Focus- 14 mpg. Blimey...
). Focus kept up pretty well, the Lambo only showing its heels on the autobahn and at the Nordschleife. Average for Murcielago- 10 mpg; Focus- 14 mpg. Blimey... 
There really is a tremendous lot to be said for this type of lunacy.
Frankly, there aren't enough articles like this that concentrate quite so well on the detailing of such intersellar hoofology.
It reminds me of an article years ago in which the Porthos of car journos (Georg Kacher) once blasted a 928S4 Clubsport through the Waffen lands at a slightly less respectable 180ish, only hitting the chicken switch as he frapped towards a chink in the horizon.
Monumental speed; marvellous.
Frankly, there aren't enough articles like this that concentrate quite so well on the detailing of such intersellar hoofology.
It reminds me of an article years ago in which the Porthos of car journos (Georg Kacher) once blasted a 928S4 Clubsport through the Waffen lands at a slightly less respectable 180ish, only hitting the chicken switch as he frapped towards a chink in the horizon.
Monumental speed; marvellous.
Kev:
Thanks for pointing this out, otherwise I might have missed it. I heard through the grape-vine you'd purchased a 996 - would that be the Turbo?
Anyway, hope you and family had a good Christmas/New Year.
Willimp:
I'd say driving 1,430 miles A DAY was pretty heroic.
Thanks for pointing this out, otherwise I might have missed it. I heard through the grape-vine you'd purchased a 996 - would that be the Turbo?
Anyway, hope you and family had a good Christmas/New Year.
Willimp:
Gret article. Mind you, a few more years back they also did 10,000 miles in a week in a Mondeo, so they're not all heroes...
I'd say driving 1,430 miles A DAY was pretty heroic.
If somewhat stupid!!!!!!
jay_z said:I'd say driving 1,430 miles A DAY was pretty heroic.
I'm amazed that they admitted between them driving when obviously too tired, "going for it" past some trucks at 180+mph and also closing their eyes whilst driving at 100mph+ "to relieve the boredom".
Personally I would call that sort of actions (although I admit I don't know the full details or the circumstances) plain f
g stupid rather than "heroic" - if they had hit someone and killed them it certainly wouldn't have been heroic then. Apart from that the article was great, but can you imagine the sort of amunition that article gives to the anti-car/speed organisations. Talk about not helping the cause...sigh.....
J
I was a little bemused.
In similar Autocar (i.e new year) eddition two years ago to the very day there was an article about the Maserati 3200GT driven by the editor.
The article is called Hope I die before I get old.
To cut a long story short he recalls on Christmas day down the M4 when a Orange Diablo goes by him doing over 130 in heavy traffic.
And that was totally unacceptable behaviour etc..
My recollection was that the traffic was way lighter than he said (Xmas morning for godsake - around 10 O'Clock) and that he was around 120 (ish) - with a full car!
But there were never any other vehicles around to be passed at high speed.
The hypocratic nature of the article - and that it was okayed by the ed - means that we will need to redfine the nature of our subscrption agreement....
Finally - Chris Harris' (excellent driver) and Steve Sutcliffe's (huge ego - good driver) narcissistic and ego massaging was too much for me!
I seem to recall Mr Sutcliff (being 3rd reserve driver choice) at Donnington last year in the Lamborghini Supertrophy GTR. His article slated all of the other drivers. As I recall - he fell of the track and ditched the car in less then one lap. His article suggested that it was because he was great. He really wasn't - and wasn't invited to participate this year.
Rant over!
In similar Autocar (i.e new year) eddition two years ago to the very day there was an article about the Maserati 3200GT driven by the editor.
The article is called Hope I die before I get old.
To cut a long story short he recalls on Christmas day down the M4 when a Orange Diablo goes by him doing over 130 in heavy traffic.
And that was totally unacceptable behaviour etc..
My recollection was that the traffic was way lighter than he said (Xmas morning for godsake - around 10 O'Clock) and that he was around 120 (ish) - with a full car!
But there were never any other vehicles around to be passed at high speed.
The hypocratic nature of the article - and that it was okayed by the ed - means that we will need to redfine the nature of our subscrption agreement....
Finally - Chris Harris' (excellent driver) and Steve Sutcliffe's (huge ego - good driver) narcissistic and ego massaging was too much for me!
I seem to recall Mr Sutcliff (being 3rd reserve driver choice) at Donnington last year in the Lamborghini Supertrophy GTR. His article slated all of the other drivers. As I recall - he fell of the track and ditched the car in less then one lap. His article suggested that it was because he was great. He really wasn't - and wasn't invited to participate this year.
Rant over!
Joust:
I was refering to Willimp's earlier post re 10,000 miles in a Mondeo. NOT the recent artical in Autocar!!!
I haven't had chance to read this yet, but I fully agree that "Going for it past some trucks at 180+" and "Driving with eyes closed at 100+" to be pretty fin stupid.
Please don't think or imply that I thought this was an act of bravery, because it was not. I was suggesting that driving 10,000miles in anything is pretty heroic.
Just wanted to clear this up - hope you don't mind
Jay.
I was refering to Willimp's earlier post re 10,000 miles in a Mondeo. NOT the recent artical in Autocar!!!
I haven't had chance to read this yet, but I fully agree that "Going for it past some trucks at 180+" and "Driving with eyes closed at 100+" to be pretty f
in stupid. Please don't think or imply that I thought this was an act of bravery, because it was not. I was suggesting that driving 10,000miles in anything is pretty heroic.
Just wanted to clear this up - hope you don't mind
Jay.
jay_z said:I was refering to Willimp's earlier post re 10,000 miles in a Mondeo. NOT the recent artical in Autocar!!!
[snip]
Just wanted to clear this up - hope you don't mind
Jay.
Sorry - miss read your post (thinking about it they only averaged around 800 a day in the Lambo/RS article - that should have pointed it out to me...)
I apologise for my quote of you therefore - but agree with you it's bloddy stupid.
J
J
And I've just gone to email them via their web site about it telling them what idiots they are in my eyes and guess what - their web site is returning "CGI Error - The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:"
Oh well... Anyone know the editors direct email address?
J
Oh well... Anyone know the editors direct email address?
J
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