Ultimate road trip?

[mat_the_cat]

I think I could quite happily do something like this!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8703/index.html

[Asimo]

Just what you need for a long trip. ATCNBE

[spike60]

Unfortunately his women don't seem to be as durable as his car.

[Cavcraft]

Load of old bollocks, let's see him take a loaded 4 cylinder Euro Cargo from Chester to Shrewsbury and Telford and try and return in the same millennium. Bloody lightweight.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I never understand things like this. Where the fuck do they get the time and money from? Do they plan or just blindly set off and hope for the best?

[chaseracer]

I think it's called savings and a determination bordering on complete selfishness.

[mercrocker]

G class?   Pah, John Coleman, Austin 7 Buenos Aires - New York.  THAT was ballsy and a good read too.....

[overrun]

Planning on a 2K mile Euro trip, next summer with a few mates.

My 300 bhp mk1 MR2 (hmmm, I will try!)

Mates 300 bhp S14a and another mates 300 bhp mk2 MR2.

 

Stelvio, Monaco, Nurburg, Pug museum, Lake Geneva etc etc

Camping and staying in travel lodges.

 

Will be great, if we do.

[Forty-two]

I was just about to post this article.  Dam good effort I say.  I once paid for a hire car (MK1 Fiat Uno) in Tunisia with a laptop (separate story there) which we used off road.  It only got stuck once after falling into a large rut.  It is true what he says in the article, people away from the cities are friendly.  From nowhere it seemed, six men appeared and picked the car out of the rut and then left.

[cort1977]

I think it's called savings and a determination bordering on complete selfishness.

Yep, all very impressive but then I got to this "Christine agreed, and in November, once her son had been settled in a boarding school, Otto set off for Africa again. Holtorf was 53, Christine 34."   WTF?   Great parenting there, 'no worries son, I'm just going to put you in boarding school while I go gallivanting off to Africa with some old punter I've just met'.

 

Is it me?   I know that sounds really miserable, I would love to do something like this but I wouldn't dump the kids to 'follow my dream'.

[mercrocker]

The British Empire was founded upon dumping kids in boarding schools and gallivanting off to Africa!   Have to say though, that this trek beats the shit out of these sail-round-the-world trips that rich / deluded people with too much time and money seem to increasingly be doing.   Watching the bow of a yacht going up and down in a sea of grey for 42 days?  I would rather be in a rattly Fiat Panda running on three with a knackered clutch and thermostat on a wet Tuesday on the North Circular.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Quite enjoyed that thanks. Plus it seems he is a proper shiter:

 

"But parting with Otto won’t be too hard. He has another Mercedes at home – a right-hand-drive E class, which he bought in Indonesia in 1978 and took on long journeys in South America in the 1980s.

 

Being 10 years older than Otto, it is also, of course, pre-electronic. “It’s a very reliable, very basic car. I like it very much,†Holtorf says. "I like old stuff - no fancy stuff." It has done a mere 500,000km, so far. That’s just a snip."

[barefoot]

I think Christine would look better with my cock in her mouth.

[castros_bro]

Based on the photos and words I think he has lost the plot so instead of having "an experience" the journey has taken over his life and has become a tally of number of countries visited, kilometers driven. The quality and subject of the photos just look like slick publicity shots for Mercedes (who seem to have given him half a million euros and arranged his insurance etc.) with the photogenic locals posed. If you read Ted Simon's second book he talks about "the Journey" taking over his life and I think this bloke has slipped into the same mind set so local human element is missing, how could someone spent 1500 euro a month for years and drive past people who have less than nothing with his  "Holtorf advises people not to moan about countries they visit. They cannot change them, so if they don’t like them, they should stay away. ".        0/10 for human compassion mate.   It's not quite the same as that bloke on a Honda 90

[castros_bro]

I think Christine would look better with my cock in her mouth.

 

Don't suppose she'd complain as she died in 2010.

[Junkman]

Looks like my worst nightmare.

Do you guys realise, that in most places they went the beer is worse?

 

There will be a time, when the furthest I will travel abroad is the Isle of Wight.

[John F]

overrun, on 10 Oct 2014 - 12:06 AM, said:

Planning on a 2K mile Euro trip, next summer with a few mates.

My 300 bhp mk1 MR2 (hmmm, I will try!)

Mates 300 bhp S14a and another mates 300 bhp mk2 MR2.

 

Stelvio, Monaco, Nurburg, Pug museum, Lake Geneva etc etc

Camping and staying in travel lodges.

 

Will be great, if we do.

 

You should be fine... I do a 2,000 mile Euro trip to Austria every year in my 115 bhp 170,000 mile Disco 300 TDi, loaded to the gills with ski gear, tools and cheap cigs / booze from Luxembourg

[brickwall]

Try and get outta Aberdeen on a Friday evening around 5 - I've seen children grow up in the time it's taken me.

[Lankytim]

The old git seemed to have no problems picking up the bitches. His cock must be enormous.