Pictorial where did you go in your Stinger today

[KAS]

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Just a local back road, but the autumn colors and a setting sun made it look great!

Awesome photo! You can really see the pumped front and rear guards from this angle. Plus, that full-width light bar looks absolutely fantastic!

 

[Devin]

Started my travel to Denver from Seattle. 830 miles today. 550 tomorrow.

Got to park in front of the Rockies (and stand in the middle of I90

 

[Devin]

Took a trip through Wyoming and ended up in Denver, as planned.







My brakes got very hot on the way down.

 

[Rodtheviking]

On your way back, IM me when you are near Portland (if you are going this way) I'll come meet ya someplace.

 

[7Andrei7]

One more week has passed and I'm back in Vienna after last week going from Geneva to Monaco through Col du Mont Cenis and then down on the Italian coast till Pisa. Monaco was interesting during the race weekend but since we didn't have tickets and no accommodation in Monaco it was a bit of a mess. Incredibly crowded!
On Monday I drove to Oradea (the town in NW Romania) to do a full service and change my brakes. Left the car there for 3 days while I flew home for some office time and this morning I picked up the car and came to Vienna.
Tomorrow I'm going to Milan and next week to Basel. For work, both places.
Close to 8000 km so far since the car left my garage

 

[Stinger GT SS]

Took a trip through Wyoming and ended up in Denver, as planned.

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As an Aussie I love this shot, the scenery is stunning, it reminds me of a road trip we took in May 2008 driving through the El Dorado National Forest & around Lake Tahoe in CA, simply breathtaking.

 

[Devin]

The scenery was amazing. Driving up the road to the top was just astounding. I grab some video if can.

 

[MerlintheMad]

One more week has passed and I'm back in Vienna after last week going from Geneva to Monaco through Col du Mont Cenis and then down on the Italian coast till Pisa. Monaco was interesting during the race weekend but since we didn't have tickets and no accommodation in Monaco it was a bit of a mess. Incredibly crowded!
On Monday I drove to Oradea (the town in NW Romania) to do a full service and change my brakes. Left the car there for 3 days while I flew home for some office time and this morning I picked up the car and came to Vienna.
Tomorrow I'm going to Milan and next week to Basel. For work, both places.
Close to 8000 km so far since the car left my garage

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The fourth pic: the lower street beneath the Pirelli sign, that's c. where Lorenzo Bandini flipped and burned (also where "Scott Stoddard" nearly died in the first half hour of the film "Grand Prix"; the harbor was less packed back then, and the boats a LOT smaller, or else "Pete Aaron" would have smashed into one of them instead of ending up in the harbor).

What exactly is that green stuff all over your car?

 

[7Andrei7]

The fourth pic: the lower street beneath the Pirelli sign, that's c. where Lorenzo Bandini flipped and burned (also where "Scott Stoddard" nearly died in the first half hour of the film "Grand Prix"; the harbor was less packed back then, and the boats a LOT smaller, or else "Pete Aaron" would have smashed into one of them instead of ending up in the harbor).

What exactly is that green stuff all over your car?

Wow, I didn’t know that. I only started with F1 in the late 90s with Hakkinen and Schumacher.
The green stuff is some kind of “active foam” that’s supposed to dissolve the dirt away.

 

[Devin]

The scenery was amazing. Driving up the road to the top was just astounding. I grab some video if can.

 

[Stinger GT SS]

That looks awesom.

 

[7Andrei7]

Today is the last day of my crazy summer working trip through Europe. It's the last day of the last exhibition so this evening I'll head to Bucharest. It will take me 2 days to get home but it should be pretty straight forward. It's about 2000 km from here in Basel, NW Switzerland.
It was a really cool experience and had time to also see a couple of auto-museums in between my work. I was at 2 F1 races. Pretty good month! Drove 12.000 km so far + the extra 2k to get home. The car is an amazing grand tourer even though I have the 4 cyl engine. One feature I REALLY enjoyed more than others were the ventilated seats in the scorching heat-wave. Never really felt tired from driving.

In terms of driving experience, Spain, Belgium & Switzerland are super boring with their 120 speed limit.
In Germany you can go mega fast legally but most of the time it's too much traffic.
In Italy, nobody cares about the speed limit as long as you don't go over 140 km/h (just like Romania).
France, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary are very easy to drive. Just keep to the speed limit + 10 and you're fine. There are cameras everywhere.

If I had to choose one it would be Italy even though they have the worst kept roads and the most chaotic style. It's just so fun!

Below a few pics from Switzerland and from a museum in France.

 

[bfglitch]

Today is the last day of my crazy summer working trip through Europe. It's the last day of the last exhibition so this evening I'll head to Bucharest. It will take me 2 days to get home but it should be pretty straight forward. It's about 2000 km from here in Basel, NW Switzerland.
It was a really cool experience and had time to also see a couple of auto-museums in between my work. I was at 2 F1 races. Pretty good month! Drove 12.000 km so far + the extra 2k to get home. The car is an amazing grand tourer even though I have the 4 cyl engine. One feature I REALLY enjoyed more than others were the ventilated seats in the scorching heat-wave. Never really felt tired from driving.

In terms of driving experience, Spain, Belgium & Switzerland are super boring with their 120 speed limit.
In Germany you can go mega fast legally but most of the time it's too much traffic.
In Italy, nobody cares about the speed limit as long as you don't go over 140 km/h (just like Romania).
France, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary are very easy to drive. Just keep to the speed limit + 10 and you're fine. There are cameras everywhere.

If I had to choose one it would be Italy even though they have the worst kept roads and the most chaotic style. It's just so fun!

Below a few pics from Switzerland and from a museum in France.

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Absolutely loved all your updates! I also enjoyed the overview of how you rate the driving in each country. While I was in Europe I only had a chance to drive through a good portion of Italy and some of Austria. I have to agree that while the driving style in Italy was a little chaotic...coming from the US I would gladly drive in Italy over driving in the US. People are too self absorbed in the US to care about highway etiquette.

 

[cncBilly]

Today is the last day of my crazy summer working trip through Europe. It's the last day of the last exhibition so this evening I'll head to Bucharest. It will take me 2 days to get home but it should be pretty straight forward. It's about 2000 km from here in Basel, NW Switzerland.
It was a really cool experience and had time to also see a couple of auto-museums in between my work. I was at 2 F1 races. Pretty good month! Drove 12.000 km so far + the extra 2k to get home. The car is an amazing grand tourer even though I have the 4 cyl engine. One feature I REALLY enjoyed more than others were the ventilated seats in the scorching heat-wave. Never really felt tired from driving.

In terms of driving experience, Spain, Belgium & Switzerland are super boring with their 120 speed limit.
In Germany you can go mega fast legally but most of the time it's too much traffic.
In Italy, nobody cares about the speed limit as long as you don't go over 140 km/h (just like Romania).
France, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary are very easy to drive. Just keep to the speed limit + 10 and you're fine. There are cameras everywhere.

If I had to choose one it would be Italy even though they have the worst kept roads and the most chaotic style. It's just so fun!

Below a few pics from Switzerland and from a museum in France.

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Thx for taking us along for the ride, really enjoyed it. I live on the Canadian West Coast and our highest posted speed is 110. Very boring!

 

[Stinger GT SS]

Just a short winter‘s Sunday afternoon drive, took in a view looking back toward Sydney approx. 75kms away.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Long day driving. Am at a motel beside I-80 just south of Grand Island, Nebraska, less than ten hours away from Milwaukee, my destination tomorrow. The scenery wasn't anything spectacular, but I did see a Ceramic Silver GT-Line (I like the DRLs, they're cute ) c. 45 miles west of Kearny, and a "unit" of the Cali Hell's Angels barged up behind me and you can bet I pulled over, heh!


How often do you see precisely all four tires showing the recommended psi?

And then right after I gassed up, my psi screen died!? It's been working fine for three months, but on my road trip, down it goes. I'll try squeezing connectors together again tomorrow morning, but I am not hopeful.

 

[AtomicGTL]

Just seem hell angels here in Kitchener, Ontario, at tim Hortons

 

[JSolo]

I've been in/through Grand Island, NE. Boring drive indeed... Flat from what I recall... very flat.

Also, looks like you got passed by a rolling road block. Congrats! At least it's on the interstate and not a curvy backroad with no place to pass.

 

[AusStinger]

Long day driving. Am at a motel beside I-80 just south of Grand Island, Nebraska, less than ten hours away from Milwaukee, my destination tomorrow. The scenery wasn't anything spectacular, but I did see a Ceramic Silver GT-Line (I like the DRLs, they're cute ) c. 45 miles west of Kearny, and a "unit" of the Cali Hell's Angels barged up behind me and you can bet I pulled over, heh!
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How often do you see precisely all four tires showing the recommended psi?
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And then right after I gassed up, my psi screen died!? It's been working fine for three months, but on my road trip, down it goes. I'll try squeezing connectors together again tomorrow morning, but I am not hopeful.

You can cruise on 80MPH ?!?!? ( 130KPH ). There's nowhere, anywhere near me that I could cruise at that speed.
There's always some Camry in the way.

 

[MerlintheMad]

You can cruise on 80MPH ?!?!? ( 130KPH ). There's nowhere, anywhere near me that I could cruise at that speed.
There's always some Camry in the way.

I-80 has intermittent construction going on, and the slowest I was reduced to was c. 15 MPH, but that was once, for c. twenty minutes (they were actively paving the other half of the road). Most of the construction zones are reduced down to one no-passing lane and last a couple of miles; the longest was eleven miles, but that zone was two lanes at least and everybody stayed up to speed, 65 MPH: the rest of the freeway is open 75 MPH, which I set at 84 MPH (nine you're fine, ten you're mine guideline: I blew past a cop in the median watching us coming and he didn't bat an eye: this was late evening yesterday in Nebraska). Wyoming was irritating, because they raise the speed limit to 80 MPH, then without warning, rhyme or reason, drop it back down to 75 MPH: I guess there is a reason, it creates a speed trap, but I didn't see any cops in Wyoming. Traffic on the interstate was mostly pretty loose, and at times almost devoid of other vehicles: inconceivable, I know. You get really good at gauging the closing distances and putting on speed to preempt someone in the outside lane from sliding over to pass a slower vehicle (usually an 18-wheeler, and usually one of them passing one or more of the same): this "passing fast" is the Stinger's finest trait, hah.

And, none of this is "anywhere near me", it must be said.