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Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? #1236257
10/07/2011 23:34
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The most I've ever done is...130 miles, which really, is nothing. rolleyes

Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236262
10/07/2011 23:39
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Tenby to Leeds which was 7.5 hours in the middle of last summer. Traffic was mayhem for a good hour and a half of that journey.


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Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236264
10/07/2011 23:40
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from kent to fcss twice then home in one day 750 odd miles


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Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236267
10/07/2011 23:42
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Norfolk - Spa

Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236281
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Spa - Stoke.

Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: ] #1236286
11/07/2011 00:26
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Wrexham, North Wales to Spa, Belgium, but there were a few stops on the way, so don't know if they can be counted?

Paul is cheating, as he stopped too laugh

Last edited by Theresa; 11/07/2011 00:27. Reason: It was me that needed to stop though, not the car, so does it count? Lol
Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236294
11/07/2011 00:44
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mine i didnt stop properly i got to joes and realized i had forgotten what i was meant to bring and got back in and drove off in a mood smile


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Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236298
11/07/2011 01:16
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3000 miles in 3 days average 72.1 mph in a cat c NA
Does that count?



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Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: cjh] #1236300
11/07/2011 01:42
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Originally Posted By: cjh
3000 miles in 3 days average 72.1 mph in a cat c NA
Does that count?


Is it a CAT C as a result of that journey? laugh

Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236301
11/07/2011 02:32
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Nup - nice restoration if you ask me...trip included Prague Germany France
Belgium and holland and England



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Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: cjh] #1236302
11/07/2011 02:56
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Longest non stop was from Cambridge to Gluckstadt in northern Germany. 690 miles each way, plus two trips down to Hanover.

Out on a Friday and back on a Sunday, about 1600 miles in a weekend ooo


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Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236318
11/07/2011 08:10
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Regularly do Hemel-Skye at thirteen hundred miles the round trip, and Hemel-Berlin for sixteen hundred return. Longest was probably down to northern/central Italy, I think we clocked three and a half thousand in that trip. Though the trip to Berlin via the Rhine valley and Munich and sundry points east might have been longer.

Longest journey in one sitting was one to Berlin last winter, where some prat in an artic jackknifed it and closed the motorway, stranded us in six inches of snow and ten below for eight hours - twenty-four hours in total for eight hundred miles.


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Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236468
11/07/2011 16:41
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Ireland !!!!
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Kitzbuhel (Austria) to Baden-Baden in Germany in one go, with no stops, part of a road trip I did back in '07.

Did it on the on a full tank, 4 hours 27 mins/286 miles according to Google maps, though I did in a shade under 4 hours as I was driving early on a Sunday morning and made good use of the Autobahn before and after Munich laugh

Total distance on that trip from the West of Ireland, via U.K,( New Billies and a cam-belt change), Dunkirk, Nürburgring wink to Austria was a bit over 3000 miles in 11 days ( @ cjh bow ) If I did it again I'd take a few more days to do it.

I'm still too scared to add up all the petrol receipts tongue



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Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236470
11/07/2011 16:51
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Bicester to Falmouth - 259 miles according to Google. Not even a stop at the services.

Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236477
11/07/2011 17:13
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Blackpool to bedford..

LONG

4hours 2mins - 206.0 miles!

but i was smiling the hole way as i just picked my coupe up laugh

Last edited by Marco20valveT; 11/07/2011 17:14.
Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236481
11/07/2011 17:15
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Edinburgh to Chesham, 400 miles, mission...

Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236486
11/07/2011 17:24
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Home to Glasgow to do a training course, then back home again the same day - 275 miles each way, without stopping in either direction

Then, a week or so later, home to Stirling for a two-hour meeting and back again the same day - 290 miles each way


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Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1236589
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The complete west coast of France, =1000km or 600 miles in 15 hours. Included a lunch break in Bordeaux, plus coffee and tea breaks. The old girl ran like a dream.

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London - Munich around 750 miles in a little over 10 hours on a Saturday morning. Would have been quicker, but hit a huge block of traffic south of Frankfurt and down into Munich up until then we were averaging close to 100 mph and a tank every two hours smile.

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Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1237140
12/07/2011 23:40
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im planning on driving mine to sicily

Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: ] #1237177
13/07/2011 04:52
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Sydney to Brisbane (approx 1000km) and didn't leave the country, with most of the journey in the same State.


Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1238245
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Monza GP trip.
Carlisle to Barga in Tuscany, 1300mls, 17hrs 30mins via channel tunnel.

Lorry fire in tunnel on return journey so had to take the ferry, 17hrs 10mins laugh


This is how it should have come out of Torino!
Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1238252
16/07/2011 10:28
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I have gone from home in West Yorkshire to central Brittany in France a few times in mine 650 miles each way, only stopping for the ferry/tunnel and quick meals. Normally share the driving but have done it solo a few times.


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Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: andyps] #1238253
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Somerset to Cannes in the Coupe, 22 hours of pretty much non stop driving with a half hour sleep in a layby. Never again!


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Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1238647
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Longest non-stop journey is from Sellafield in West Cumbria to the outskirts of Cardiff, 294 miles according to Google. I won't say how long it took as my average speed is quite hgh but I really needed the toilet by the time I arrived laugh

Longeset one way journey was with darlo_nick, we drove from Geneve to Cardiff in one shot which is around 800 miles but had quite a few quick stops for food, drinks etc and the ferry crossing too. I think we left Geneve at about 2pm and arrived in Cardiff about 3am.


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Trollhättan(Sweden) to Glasgow via Denmark,Germany,Holland and Belgium 22hrs not including Zebrugge-Rosyth ferry 1400Km driving

Re: Your longest, one-way, non-stop Coupe journey? [Re: JKD] #1243443
30/07/2011 16:46
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Just done Lizard to home in Cumbria, not even stopping for fuel. Managed 453 miles on a tank, although totally filled her as much as I could, and motorway nearly all the way. Wife drove her there and I drove her Shogun. That needed a tank and a half, about £160. Now she is happy for me to have a Coupe again. Costs half to run as her motor does and she loved the drive there.

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30/07/2011 18:32
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St Mawgan in Cornwall to Galashiels in the Scottish Borders not nearly as long as some here, but I did do it after spending 8 hours in a Air Sea Rescue dingy about 3 miles off-shore! (I wasn't in any trouble it was just a training excercise).

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690 miles from North London to Les Deux Alpes, during the winter, and the car, although had to be defrosted to gain entry, started first time in -15c... Was an amazing sound driving through thsoe long Alpes tunnels, look forward to trying that with my next purchase...


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