My mate drove back from his house in Slovenia to Lincs in one 24 hour period without stopping, other than for fuel and ferry crossing, some 2000 miles. MAD

 

Athens to Lund in 3.5 days. That included 22 hours of ferry from Patras to Ancona, 2 overnight stops, one in Kitzbuhel and a second in Leipsig and some sightseeing. Kitzbuhel was great! Also Reading to Nice in 2 days in a 205 gti.

 

2000 miles in 24 hours is a ****ing achivement tbh,,,,,,work out what hes speed would have needed to be

 

I think it's ****ing dangerous! 24h behind the wheel without any stop to rest is not an achievement. If you want to get killed that's fine but don't take innocent people's lives with you. Lorry drivers are not allowed to do more than 8h non-stop, there is a reason behind this.

 

That's an average of 83mph if you don't stop I think you'd need a few stops though so it's probably nearer to 86mph.

 

mate you try and do 2000 miles and tell me how long it takes, its gonna be MORE than 86mph considering most cars do 300ish miles to a tank, then theres traffic, ferry crossing

average stop will take 15mins unless he does a pony and theres a extra time,,, he WILL stop to stretch legs for a bit too as most people do

when i go germany thats about 300 or so miles and that takes a few hours,,,,, and i do some of it fairly fast too

 

His car is a diesel, so 600miles per tank. He did admit he was pretty tired, next morning he was back at work though.

 

No thanks I was just saying that to do that distance you had to average that sort of speed, I know in the real world that wouldn't happen.

 

not sure where eastbourne is but im possibly a bit out so your maybe right.
Im pretty much at john o groats,a9 to inverness,a9 to perth area,motorway to glasgow area then motorway all the way down to ashford, oh now i see eastbourne yeah so it prob is near 800 rather than 900 but its still a long distance.

 

Whilst travelling north in Germany my mates and I have done 450 miles in some 5 hours, with the first 300 completed in 3 hours on motorbikes. Though tiring it was a great buzz travelling at 100+mph for approx one hour, refuelling then another 100 miles.

 

1800 miles to Cherkasy, Ukraine in a 1990 Dodge Caravan last summer. Only one breakdown - alternator, in Poland. Full of humanitarian aid for an orphanage in Ukraine and did the trip fine with just me and a mate.

 

Adelaide to Alice Springs via the Oodnadatta Track in a Subaru Leone Wagon in 1986. We returned via back roads east of Alice Springs to Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock.

Not sure of the mileage, but several thousand mainly on dirt roads, quite rough in places, where we saw maybe a dozen cars a day, sometimes only a couple. We carried two spare wheels, about 60 litres of water, and 10 gallons of spare petrol. Car was perfect the whole way, though we could have done with air con when the shade temperature got up to 47C!

Subarus are tough, reliable cars!

 

drove from germany to france in the brother in laws scoob....dunno how far but a good 5 hour drive.....on the autobahn as well......

 

what diesel does 600 miles to a tank ??

transits dont even do that on motorways and there tanks are huge

 

my Audi Q7 has a 600 mile range, but it does empty the petrol station tanks in one fill up!

 

how much to fil the tank ???

most diesels aint got oversize tanks though have they

 

more than 100 litres!

 

thats why theres so ****ing big then i guess pmsl

i get pissed fillin the scoobie and BM,,,,, 100 litres of fuel would actually make me cry come time to pay

 

I've done Cardiff to Dundee and similar plenty of times in my Legacy, never had a problem apart from the one time I had an airlock in my heater matrix that decided to randomly correct itself while on the M6 leaving me low on coolant. I believe that's a Legacy-specific problem anyway and it did no harm.

Not sure if the comment about the TMIC scoop not working at high speeds is going to be a problem because the small legacy one works just fine due to being a complete fluke better design.

Best advice I can give is to do the trip overnight and to plan a few non-motorway sections into your route to keep you alert. I like the A701 on my Dundee trips, but that depends on where abouts in the north of Scotland you're coming from.

Also, you do realise it'd be cheaper to fly, right?

 

Chamonix to Amsterdam in a day. Was in Saab though.

 

dont have a passport just now so cant fly. plus i hate the feeling of not being able to leave a place when i want, dont know why but i get a funny feeling

 

For an internal flight, you don't need a passport, just a suitable form of photo ID, such as a photocard driving licence

 

liverpool to south of France (Monte Carlo ) in one day ....2 drivers

 

Ive done Kent to Loret ( Catalunya ) in one hit and drove through the whole of France in 8 hours. and glasgow to kent in one go too

 

I put 3500 miles on a little chevy cavalier hire car a few years ago driving all over the west side of America. I did Vegas to the Grand Kanyon and back on one day, not sure of the miles but me **** was dead.

 

once drove from paris to south bucks, 300 miles
took about 6.5 hours
but on another note
drove from picadilly,london to south bucks, 17 miles
in rush hour
took about 4.75 hours

budgie

 

Me and my old boss did 1774miles in 3 and a half days from Cumbria to Lithuania (Vilnus). Would have taken alot less if the bloody Polish and German poice wernt such Tw*ts.

We drove 2 Lada Samara 1.5's over and sold them over there. That paid for all the fuel, food, accomadation and flights back (1993)

Was a good trip, good fun and you will be supprised to here, we both got 120mph out of them on the autobahn's

 

400 miles - from Castleford Yorkshire, to Nairn, Aberdeenshire. But I did it on one full tank of petrol in my MY99 wagon.
Twice.

 

Setting off tomorrow to the Orkneys

About 600 miles and a couple of expensive ferrys

 

brecon to bordeaux every year, approx 600squid in fuel and tolls, got pulled by the french feds 2 years ago for doin 130 acted really dumb and got 90euro fine, i nearly got life cause the rozzer used the dirt on my car to write 90 euros, i nearly grabbed his gun and pistol whipped him.