Semi-serious topic.
I'm trying to plan a road trip for next Summer. Will be taking the zed sowill be posting up with advance requests on getting more than 1 hours worth of luggage in; etc - in due course
Take a look at this:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=london&daddr=Am+Olympiapark+2,+80809+M%C3%BCnchen,+Deutschland+(BMW+Museum)+to:Transf%C4%83g%C4%83r%C4%83%C5%9Fan,+Sibiu,+Rom%C3%A2nia+to:Budapest,+Hungary+to:N%C3%BCrburgring,+N%C3%BCrburg,+Germany+to:london&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=48.589326,12.23877&sspn=12.185702,33.815918&geocode=FXjUEQMd5BL-_yl13iGvC6DYRzGZKtXdWjqWUg%3BFccf3wIdRF-wACGc8bA5DxYk1Q%3BFQ7guAIdUkB3ASlzfDA4qt1MRzE3h2C9en5RUA%3BFabE1AId9okiASnJz9TRNMNBRzFgER4MKcQABA%3BFWcQAAMdfg5qACGoNLZfAqkeLQ%3BFXjUEQMd5BL-_yl13iGvC6DYRzGZKtXdWjqWUg&vpsrc=0&mra=ls&t=m&z=6
Central, down to the chunnel - followed by a blast down to Munich where I'll stay on night 1. Day 2 check out the BMW museum before driving on to Sibiu, Romania - for night 2. We then get an EARLY start and fly over to the Transfagarasan highway, perhaps running this twice.
We then run from Sibiu back to Budapest, Hungary - for a three night stay. Recover, then drink.. Lots for 2 nights. Then on the final day drive up to the Széchenyi Baths in North West Pest, have a few hours of recovery and then an epic run to the Nurburgring.
Arriving at the ring on Thurs night, there'll be the 3 hour open slot on Fri evening and a full Touristfahrten on Saturday.
Drive back on Sunday.
Take monday off to recover.
Total round trip is approx 3000 miles!! Mostly motorway so will get the full 300 mile range from the zed Just the 10 tanks of fuel then!!!!! Plus another tank for the ring laps. Costs otherwise are a service beforehand, tyres both beforehand and possibly afterwards, accomodation (only expensive at the ring) and food/drink.
The places:
BMW Welt: http://www.bmw-welt.com/web_rb/bmw-welt ... rview.html
Transfăgărășan Highway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transf%C4% ... 83%C8%99an
Széchenyi Baths: http://visitbudapest.travel/activities/ ... nyi-baths/
And the 'ring needs no introduction of course...
Sound like a plan?
Dave