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General => General discussion => Topic started by: blinky88 on 24 June 2007, 02:30
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"Somewhere between 3 and 4am.
Night time.
The best time to drive. The air flows fresh and cool through your open window.
All lights seem green, the road is yours.
Night driving.
It's calm, it's effortless.
It's for the joy of driving. No rush. No need to be somewhere at a certain time.
Just feeling the road, the car, the enviroment.
Give yourself time. Indulge. Let every moment linger.
The music floats along,
Mirroring the rythmn of the engine.
Never thumping, never over powering.
Just softly underlining every passing tree, house and hedge,
And transforming your simple journey, into a beautiful film.
Slowly tiredness sets in.
You turn, ariving before the sun,
Leaving your golf,
Until another night,
A night perfect for night driving."
After being inspired by Golfs night driving advert I tried it myself, and love it. Something about night driving that I enjoy and am interested to see if anyone else night drives :smiley:
VW have a great driving for those who don't understand :smiley:
http://www.night-driving.com
Its 2.30am now and Im gonna go on one now, hope to see some replies :cool:
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I used to drive from Leicester to London, Embankment on the Thames to be precise.. just for a bacon sandwhich! Totally awesome!! leave London just before sunrise, and be back in bed for 7am sunday morning,,, if youve never done anything like this, then you dont know what your missing :cool:
Tom
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all about the roof down at night.
:cool:
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We came back last night at 3am from the beach. We had a great BBQ, some big-ass candles and some blankets!
Driving back from the beach between 2-3am was great, nothing on the road, no distractions, no pedestrians, just man and machine! :cool:
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drive back from Le Mans at around 4am in the morning :cool: just me and my mates and the odd supercar for a bit of a play.
driving through city centres is cool too :cool:
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Love it!! Looks like you guys know what Im talking about :smiley:
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Its a very strange surreal feeling. Especially in the summer when the wind is warm :smiley:
I'm so envious of you Rhyso going to Le Mans, i know someone that drove over with a corrado club, say's it was the best thing ever! mini gumball style race on the way over with gangs of supercars followed by 36 hour party with loads of friendly people :smiley:
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i love it at night except the coppers always suspect you are drunk or up to something. oh and badgers want to play chicken
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i drove to keswick at 3am in my mr2, got halfway there when my heaters stopped working, then temp started goin up, had a water pipe burst and had to wake my dad up to come tow me back, he wasnt very happy!!!
so my advice is make sure your in the aa or green flag before you do this, and make sure your mobiles charged and has credit!!!
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i get to drive home every morning about 4am straight round an empty ring road and thru three villages that are also dead i can get back in a 3rd off the time in the morning
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Its a very strange surreal feeling. Especially in the summer when the wind is warm :smiley:
I'm so envious of you Rhyso going to Le Mans, i know someone that drove over with a corrado club, say's it was the best thing ever! mini gumball style race on the way over with gangs of supercars followed by 36 hour party with loads of friendly people :smiley:
yeah its definetly something you should do. I went last year with some mates and its awesome. showed a Ferrari 430 how quick a derv really is for all of about 3 seconds when he then dropped a cog and screamed past me :grin: :grin: What a noise! :cool:
watching the cars through the night is surreal :cool:
might look at going back next year but going down a little earlier as when we arrived on the Thursday there was hardly any space to pitch your tent :sad:
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Night or very early mornign driving is fantastic!!
No 30mph noobs on the country roads - plus the advantage of seeing headlights in the distance
My favorite thing is when you drive down a road that is normally busy and full of red traffic lights in the day, but all the lights are green and you can't believe how quick you get to the end of the road :smiley:
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Love night driving, especially in a cab! or very early cool summer mornings at dawn
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So kittie - speeding through traffic lights in a built up area then?
Hmmmmm..........
:rolleyes:
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:laugh: Yep thats me, I always drive at 60mph, speeding to 70 if I see a 'watch for children/the elderly' sign
Bonus points for any drunks I see wobbling about of course!
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Tut Tut! Young lady! :wink: :laugh:
Never do that sort of thing myself of course! :rolleyes:
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cant beat a bit of mid night driving :cool:
get the tunes pumping and just amble about as you wish!
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:laugh: Yep thats me, I always drive at 60mph, speeding to 70 if I see a 'watch for children/the elderly' sign
Bonus points for any drunks I see wobbling about of course!
hahaha :laugh:
schools out now, gonna be doing plenty of night driving :cool:
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Once drove my Mini Cooper to Budapest. It was a wicked road trip all the way but one of the best bits was getting back to Dover at about midnight and heading back to Warwickshire right through central London in the small hours. Recommended.
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Once drove my Mini Cooper to Budapest. It was a wicked road trip all the way but one of the best bits was getting back to Dover at about midnight and heading back to Warwickshire right through central London in the small hours. Recommended.
I would love to do a really long road trip like that, one day! need a car that i trust taking further than my route to work though :laugh:
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can i be passenger neaty?
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yes certainly!
but we wont have to rely on both of our sense of direction, or lack of rather, as i have tomtom :wink: :laugh:
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i love it at night except the coppers always suspect you are drunk or up to something. oh and badgers want to play chicken
I second that! I was on me way up to Birmingham from London and got pulled for doing 97. It was 80 when I passed them, speeding up cos I thought they were some pillock wanting a race and i just wanted to drive alone and unbothered. Nevermind the johnny trucking foreigners wobbling all over the hard shoulder! Had to be nice cos I had a fat ounce in the passenger door pocket...
I haven't had a badger yet, not even on the trips to Wales, but I'll keep my eyes peeled. Do they taste like chicken too? :evil:
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I got stuck behind two badgers the other night on some back roads near me!! They were just trotting along wouldnt get out of the way :angry: