Author Topic: My road trip to Switzerland, France, Italy and Monaco  (Read 20588 times)

Offline SuperMario

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Re: Road trip switzerland tomorrow :)
« Reply #30 on: August 09, 2013, 07:04:41 pm »
Went down that road in my old scirocco, would have loved to have done that journey in my old G !

Kudos to you dude!

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Re: Road trip switzerland tomorrow :)
« Reply #31 on: August 09, 2013, 07:49:39 pm »
Haha thanks :) its pretty scary in the G but if i had a choice of cars for next time, id still take the G :D

Lol, "the correct side" do you have a nice big servo then? Do it!! You wont regret it! Just take break down cover haha

will get some more pics up soon peeps :)

Offline physicsfool

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Re: Road trip switzerland tomorrow :)
« Reply #32 on: August 12, 2013, 11:54:55 pm »
Looks like a right adventure, not sure I would survive a trip like that with the missus. What colour is your car? I am a fan, mine is looking a bit sharper now I have fresh doors on. But the tornado red is more of a hot pink.

Offline z3i

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Re: Road trip switzerland tomorrow :)
« Reply #33 on: August 15, 2013, 07:15:52 pm »
Looks like a right adventure, not sure I would survive a trip like that with the missus. What colour is your car? I am a fan, mine is looking a bit sharper now I have fresh doors on. But the tornado red is more of a hot pink.

you should mate! It was good having my gf riding shotgun, would have got a bit boring on my own lol

Capri green!! Best colour! I had a mk2 golf in exactly the same colour, is 25 percent of the reason i bought the polo :)
ahh give her a good mop, should restore a bit of clarity. Hot pink is thr in colour right now :P

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Re: Road trip switzerland tomorrow :)
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Re: Road trip switzerland tomorrow :)
« Reply #36 on: August 17, 2013, 09:38:56 pm »
as you can probably tell the very very top one is the only edited one :P

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Re: Road trip switzerland tomorrow :)
« Reply #37 on: August 17, 2013, 09:48:26 pm »
Looking at these is making me crave a road trip 8)

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Re: Road trip switzerland tomorrow :)
« Reply #38 on: August 17, 2013, 10:47:20 pm »
It was seriously the best week of my life and highly recommend it to anyone!

well heres a little footage of a mountain section
sorry about the qaulity, its a crap camera and uploading it to the net on a free video editing software has ruined the qaulity! its no where near that bad on my laptop from my files

its annoying as it makes us look like we are going slow, but it was pretty dam fast for public roads!
annoyingly i didnt get a pic, but at the end my brakes are litterly on fire, there are huge piles of white smoke coming from the discs and pads. like the same amount you would get from a small fire!! my car stank of burning brakes for the next day lol, was insane!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb8M882S7DE


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Re: My road trip to Switzerland, France, Italy and Monaco
« Reply #39 on: August 17, 2013, 10:57:57 pm »
Yeah European road trips are great fun, I've gradually extended the distance I've covered over the years but I've only taken the G40 as far as the Ring.

I drove a new BMW Z4 back from Tuscany in May, taking the long route. Italy, France, Monaco, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, France (again) then back into the UK. Great fun! I thought I'd uploaded the photos on here but it looks like I didn't. :-\

Offline z3i

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Re: My road trip to Switzerland, France, Italy and Monaco
« Reply #40 on: August 18, 2013, 08:13:47 am »
Must have been fun in a z4! We are hoping to do germany and austria next time :D and maybe the ring. Did you go round? What was it like in the G?

yeah put some pics up mate :) would be good to see them :D

Offline Justin14100

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Re: My road trip to Switzerland, France, Italy and Monaco
« Reply #41 on: August 18, 2013, 04:14:22 pm »
I just cycled from Zurich to Bormio to ride up the Stelvio and the Gavia. It's way more fun on a bike than in a car! ;) It took 1 hour and 26mins to ride up from Bormio. I recommend heading that way with your bike (if you have one) in the back of your car!

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Re: My road trip to Switzerland, France, Italy and Monaco
« Reply #42 on: August 18, 2013, 04:28:14 pm »
You cycled! Ive got a mountain bike lol. It was tireing enough going up those hairpins lock to lock in a car lol, there was an insane amount of cyclists! Kudos to you for cycling mate :)
hardcore!

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Re: My road trip to Switzerland, France, Italy and Monaco
« Reply #43 on: September 04, 2013, 08:55:11 pm »
few gay little videos for you to enjoy :)

going up the first half of the stelvio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-8c2r5y9o0


a random road we found that turned out to be awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXv25bfBQ8

first one is on my phone and good quality :)

Offline Stirlitz

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Re: My road trip to Switzerland, France, Italy and Monaco
« Reply #44 on: January 16, 2014, 01:58:51 pm »
Just read through the topic... must have been a great trip! It's great to see little Gs doing big trips.  ;) :)