Motoring Moments.

Spinning the 330i through 540 degrees along the M25, missing every other vehicle on the road, was another interesting moment... but I didn't get any pictures of that.
 
Watching them prep and then hand me the keys to a brand new Lotus Elise takes it for me.

Hoping to make some more moments when I'm actually in the car come the summer. Road trip time I think!
 
I've got some good and bad car memories!

As a kid - passenger ride in a Group A Escort Cosworth rally car around some lanes and farm roads near Oswestry. Northumberland and Scottish Roads as passenger in my Dads Alfa 146Ti. I need to drive from Inverness to Ullapool again myself someday :D.

When I was at uni - a mate who had some done rallying taking me out in his 99 Toyota Corolla 1.4 down various back roads near Aberystwyth. Not a quick car at all but gave me a proper lesson as to what difference the driver makes. Think airborne over crests, sideways around most corners, scaring somebody off their pushbike into a ditch when we came round a corner broadside (I feel a bit ashamed thinking about but we laughed ourselves silly at the time and for hours afterwards :o)

Taking my Fiesta ST around the Evo Triangle and various other North Wales roads, once it had all the mods (diff, 200bhp, blah blah blah). Also doing the A4069 and other Brecon roads in the same car, and the Elan Valley mountain roads, devils bridge and a load of others too. I miss the car at times, not around town as the clutch was evil and the suspension rock hard, but on the right road it was fantastic.

S2000 crash (bad times but could have been a lot once had the car not changed direction mid slide).

13 hours road trip from Birmingham to Fontainbleau in France (longest ever journey).

Civic FN2 crash (bad times x2 and considerably more trouser stains...come to a stop in the middle of the busy M6 with lorries to swerving my wrecked car was not something I wish to repeat).

First country drive in the MX5 - novelty value for me but great weather and good roads around Clee Hill. I can see myself keeping this car a long time if it lasts.

Passenger ride in a MK3 MX5 race car for a few laps of Donington last November, full track spec and a turbo conversion so about 335-340bhp. The driver has won various race series as well as prepping the car himself, most of the lap was sideways and nothing went past him all day, not even caterhams and the like. Made more scary by lack of roof, and open face helmet (not sure the track day organisers should have let me out strictly speaking but it was fun).
 
Hitting 155mph just after joining the Autobahn from the junction beside the BMW plant where my car was originally made. Cheesy but fun all the same :)
 
I had a chap in an S2000 make it very clear he was partial to the odd traffic light GP when I was in my Octavia vRS once. He seemed very fond of the rev limiter from first to second so I managed to pull quite a distance on him despite the car being pretty well loaded up with work stuff. When we got to the next set of lights he turned to me nodding with what can only be described as a "sort_of_want.gif" expression on his face. My wife turned to me and took the mick :o

Nurburgring was amazing, simple as that really.

The MX5 is a funny one. On a nice evening with the roof off every time I go for a drive just because I fancy it feels epic.

Remembered for the wrong reasons-

Spinning my Hyundai Pony driving like Richard Burns over a wet off camber bend.

Sending my Hyundai Pony off road showing off to a girl who was following in her mums Ford Escort.

Ripping the back bumper half off my 306 by backing it into a concrete block after working flat out for 14 hours. Thankfully it clipped back in an left just the tiniest of marks.
 
I thought I'd add one more. Joining the Motorway in my broken ATR, and then having fun with a VXR Nurb, got my backside handed to me, but silly speeds were achieved.
 
Half of these moments make me seem quite civilized!

My wheel falling off my old car just as I turned into the work carpark.

Getting my old car beached with a section of pavement between the front and rear wheels.

Doing about 100ish on a B road forgetting it turned just over the brow of the hill....that was fun.
 
Loads of epic moments to be honest, a mere scratch of the surface.

- My first motor race even though my car had blown a head gasket and was knackered, we still took the gird :)
- Collecting my first M3 and asking some arsey bloke to MOVE AWAY FROM MY CAR in the showroom before I drove it out. His ego was crushed :D
- Waking one Monday and testing, buying with an M3 part ex and driving away my GT3 all in 24 hours
- Driving to Mote Carlo and back via some of Frances finest hotels and roads, the cost of which I can still remember having to sit down for.
- Handing 70 TVR's their backside at FT2007
- Hitting an indicated (just) 200mph on my way to Donington, I mean the Nurburgring once
- Cross country run with some buddies in Wales, in the wet in the right car, my RS4
- Driving Silverstone at the age of 18 when it was so much quicker than today
- My first sprint at the age of 17 in a Westfield V8
- Not killing myself in the first 5 years of driving
- Getting 3 complaints from Joe Public after a test drive at Tewkesbury Peugeot of a 106GTi
- Seeing 170mph in my TVR Griffith again in Germany.....I think
 
Housey said:
Loads of epic moments to be honest, a mere scratch of the surface.

- My first motor race even though my car had blown a head gasket and was knackered, we still took the gird :)
- Collecting my first M3 and asking some arsey bloke to MOVE AWAY FROM MY CAR in the showroom before I drove it out. His ego was crushed :D
- Waking one Monday and testing, buying with an M3 part ex and driving away my GT3 all in 24 hours
- Driving to Mote Carlo and back via some of Frances finest hotels and roads, the cost of which I can still remember having to sit down for.
- Handing 70 TVR's their backside at FT2007
- Hitting an indicated (just) 200mph on my way to Donington, I mean the Nurburgring once
- Cross country run with some buddies in Wales, in the wet in the right car, my RS4
- Driving Silverstone at the age of 18 when it was so much quicker than today
- My first sprint at the age of 17 in a Westfield V8
- Not killing myself in the first 5 years of driving
- Getting 3 complaints from Joe Public after a test drive at Tewkesbury Peugeot of a 106GTi
- Seeing 170mph in my TVR Griffith again in Germany.....I think
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What was that in, my understanding is that takes a massive amount of grunt. I guess it wasnt something german as most are limited to 155
 
theone8181 said:
What was that in, my understanding is that takes a massive amount of grunt. I guess it wasnt something german as most are limited to 155
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My 911 GT3 which had a 191mph top speed. From a standing start I got 158mph in a measured 3/4 mile in the same car and Porsche don't follow the 155mph limit. I got 160mph GPS in my RS4 on the limiter so even those have a soft limit.
 
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got 2 that stand out. always good is going in convoys to car show's. Ford RS national's day's where always the best. start out with your local club. maybe 10-20 cars. then as you get closer to the venue ( donnington race circuit in our case ) the number builds up until you have a huge long line of RS cars spitting fire and banging and popping down the motorway.

second was beating a middle aged guy in his porsche carrera s from a roundabout in my 1989 rs turbo :) he probably thought it was a replica. he floored from the roundabout as i came up behind him. unluckily for him mine was not a replica and wasn't standard lol i flicked my switch for second stage boost and went past him. he did not look happy :)
 
Housey said:
My 911 GT3 which had a 191mph top speed. From a standing start I got 158mph in a measured 3/4 mile in the same car and Porsche don't follow the 155mph limit. I got 160mph GPS in my RS4 on the limiter so even those have a soft limit.
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I think porsche were/are the only ones that dont limit. I dont really know why they bother anyway tbh im sure not many will have much more grunt to go faster.
 
Even the S audis have V8/V6 turbos with 400ish hp.

Is there an actual reason for the 155mph (250kmh) limiting? Aero perhaps? Porsches are designed to go 200mph but an A6 beefed into an RS version still has the aero of an A6 which is definitely not designed to go 200mph?
 
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