[Kal101]

Summers here so got the Manta road taxes etc and took her out for a drive.

No where particular to go and no reason just for fun.

Wondered does anyone else just go out for a drive just for fun or have the rising cost of fuel, potholes,big brother etc ruined one of life’s little pleasures ?

Ps - still not had a friendly wave from any one in an F30 yet you miserable bunch

[Broncho]

Not since I sold my Z4M back in 2012, I also had a brace of Honda S2000 before that and would literally drive just for the hell of it.

I so miss those days but I'm genuinely far too busy now with children and the house and work and life and shyte...

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Yeah we sometimes go for a 5am drive just to enjoy those empty roads heading down the Welsh - English border.

Same in the evening it's nice to just pop out and have a rural drive.

[Hooded]

Originally Posted by Brigand

Yeah we sometimes go for a 5am drive just to enjoy those empty roads heading down the Welsh - English border.

Same in the evening it's nice to just pop out and have a rural drive.

I'm in a similar situation being on the edge of the west mids (wales side) .. half a mile down the road and I'm heading out into the sticks for a rural drive. I like driving out towards Shrewsbury way.

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Originally Posted by Hooded

I'm in a similar situation being on the edge of the west mids (wales side) .. half a mile down the road and I'm heading out into the sticks for a rural drive. I like driving out towards Shrewsbury way.

Ditto, Shrewsbury, down to Ludlow and Herefordshire.

Some nice food in Ludlow.

It's just nice to get out and do that type of thing, it's what having a car is about.

[Daftasabrush]

I usually have to find an excuse to do it, but yes, I do it. The excuse is 'need beer' or 'need milk' or suchlike. Then the long way round to the supermarket is taken, there's some cracking roads around here once you know where to go.

[aloo6]

I used to enjoy rippin it a bit up in the highlands most weekends, no real endpoint. But since baby number one 3.5 years ago I occasionally nip out to the shops for milk/calpol/etc and I would go the long way but that was for a break from the screaming, not the fun.

Miss those days!

[rlmesq]

Last month, I took a road trip with minimal structure or the first time since college. BMW gave me a free trip, with lodging, to their Performance Driving School in Palm Springs, which is about 500 miles from my home. Besides the one day car control school and the two nights of lodging they provided, I was pretty free to do whatever. I told my wife I'd see her in about a week and hit the road.

I went through the outskirts of Yosemite, drove down the coast from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, and generally had a great time just driving by myself. I need to do it more often.

[aquazi]

Not since my Z4 back in 2012... did a welsh run..... then got married and the CBR went, and slowly but surely my ownership of 2 seater petrol cars have turned into a lardy diesels

[RickLS7]

I often take the Boxster out for fun, the handling is incredible and so is the exhaust howl. Not so with the 4 series, nice car but not as addictive as the Porsche.

[simon.]

Yep. Same as above, it's a car I want to just get in & drive.

[SkyJawa]

Nope, not for years.

[Tengocity]

Me too, most weekends during summer. I have a few local routes round the Cotswolds, or south to Berkshire/Wiltshire that work well very early in a Sunday morning, and also longer half days to South Wales.
I'll also do a proper several day road trip most years, with sole purpose of getting on to great roads, usually up in Scotland.

It's hard work to drive just for fun in southern half of England, roads are usually too busy, and you need a car worth doing it in, so don't think it's any coincidence that three posters in four have a weekend car pretty much just for that purpose.

[xenon]

Originally Posted by SkyJawa

Nope, not for years.

Same. Roads are too packed or damaged to make driving even slightly enjoyable unless (in my case) you drive for miles to get somewhere better which kind of defeats the object. Last time I remember really enjoying a drive was in the rented Gallardo in NV (a bit extreme I know) but other than that I fucking hate driving anywhere.

[Andrewthefirst]

I do. Still in a bit of a honeymoon period with a 140i. Enjoy the odd early drive with sunroof open and music off.

Find myself volunteering for jobs like collecting the Chinese or buying milk etc just to get a wee backroad race. Won't last I'm sure

[JustChris]

Hardly ever.

Mini JCW was the last car I just went out 'because'. I know people will chip in and say they do in their X40i but I just don't get that, it's a big automatic car. Great for DD and some fun. But not outright fun.


Hmm likely going to get flamed for that, but huge cars, too much traffic, too many speed cameras etc etc etc have pretty much killer a UK passion for cars.

Well done do gooders.

[Broncho]

Originally Posted by JustChris

Hardly ever.

Mini JCW was the last car I just went out 'because'. I know people will chip in and say they do in their X40i but I just don't get that, it's a big automatic car. Great for DD and some fun. But not outright fun.


Hmm likely going to get flamed for that, but huge cars, too much traffic, too many speed cameras etc etc etc have pretty much killer a UK passion for cars.

Well done do gooders.

I’d be more inclined to just go out for a drive in a mini than even something like the Z4M I had, much more exploitable and more fun on our roads.

[creepy coupe]

Yep. Quite often just go for a blast. I've given up thinking of places to drive to, as I've done them all around me.More about the drive than destination More so in the 240 than the 435d.

[Tengocity]

Originally Posted by creepy coupe

Yep. Quite often just go for a blast. I've given up thinking of places to drive to, as I've done them all around me.More about the drive than destination More so in the 240 than the 435d.

Surely you think about which roads you want to travel along? I'm always thinking about to connect great bits of road together... try to make loops nice loops, and minimise motorway/cities/boring/busy bits.

[JNW1]

I'm afraid I fall in the "hardly ever" category as well.

Part of that is perhaps a reflection of the car I'm driving at the moment as, although it's very competent, personally I don't find the 335d fun and it's not a car that's ever tempted me to take the long way home just for the hell of it.

However, I think much of it is also a reflection of traffic levels and, at least where I live, the ever increasing number of mobile cameras that are just waiting to catch any speeding transgression. That's not to say that in the right car you can't have fun within the speed limits but in higher powered cars it really is very easy to get above 60mph on many NSL roads and if you do there's potential trouble waiting on the roads of North Yorkshire!

A slight aside but North Yorkshire has one or two test routes that are popular with motoring magazines and I sometimes wonder how they get away with giving high performance cars the beans on the county's roads. Perhaps they're just lucky or perhaps they have a word with the Old Bill in advance and agree there won't be any speed cameras on that section of road at that time? I'd certainly think twice about ringing the neck of something like an M4 across the North Yorkshire Moors but it doesn't seem to bother the likes of the boys at EVO!

[creepy coupe]

Originally Posted by Tengocity

Surely you think about which roads you want to travel along? I'm always thinking about to connect great bits of road together... try to make loops nice loops, and minimise motorway/cities/boring/busy bits.

Of course. I just don't have to stop anywhere EG have a particular destination.

[Tengocity]

Originally Posted by JNW1

I'm afraid I fall in the "hardly ever" category as well.

Part of that is perhaps a reflection of the car I'm driving at the moment as, although it's very competent, personally I don't find the 335d fun and it's not a car that's ever tempted me to take the long way home just for the hell of it.

However, I think much of it is also a reflection of traffic levels and, at least where I live, the ever increasing number of mobile cameras that are just waiting to catch any speeding transgression. That's not to say that in the right car you can't have fun within the speed limits but in higher powered cars it really is very easy to get above 60mph on many NSL roads and if you do there's potential trouble waiting on the roads of North Yorkshire!

A slight aside but North Yorkshire has one or two test routes that are popular with motoring magazines and I sometimes wonder how they get away with giving high performance cars the beans on the county's roads. Perhaps they're just lucky or perhaps they have a word with the Old Bill in advance and agree there won't be any speed cameras on that section of road at that time? I'd certainly think twice about ringing the neck of something like an M4 across the North Yorkshire Moors but it doesn't seem to bother the likes of the boys at EVO!

I suspect the reality of those articles is a lot of time ha going around, driving the same bit of road back and forth whilst the photographers bags the right shots, so you can easily scout ahead and see if and where there is anyone waiting to catch the speeding motorist.