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Originally Posted by churchx
alf: from what i've seen so far, things for around the world trips are much simpler for bikers and or offroad cars. I don't think their experience might be very applicable to far from "go anywhere" tarmac sport coupes. Going in "normal cars" .. you don't have large crew in landrovers and Oliver opel for looser, like TopGear had in those "specials" where they drove in non-offroaders at undeveloped wilderness and bad roads, to get you through pinch, if whatever happens/you get stuck, don't you?  |
I already took my BRZ to High Sierra off road sections and went thru quite difficult terrain including hanging on 3 wheels. LSD does the trick. I would not dare go there in regular FWD or RWD car. Also for the off-roadish section in Asia, I do plan to raise the car 1" or so and drop it once I am in Europe. I know one owner who did it and it looks quite cool.
In fact this is the point of the trip, take a smallish sport coupe around the world. I do accept an ultimate risk of loosing car (and I will strip it from all my performance/timeattack mods for the trip) and potential evacuation. But again, the world is more friendly than we think, especially when you travel alone.
Andy