Ticking all the US road trip cliche boxes can only be a good thing, explains matty_prior
It makes 93bhp at a lazy 5250rpm and an endearing throb all of the time. It’s basically unstallable.
Some of my mates rib me about its size and showiness. Okay, I’m not sure how much I’d enjoy it in London, but I’m not in London. Its sat-nav gives me several route options: direct or scenic and twisty, and here’s the beauty of a US road trip: big distances fall aside easily and the miles shown on signs to faraway towns drop as quickly as the kilometres seem to back in continental Europe.
I head south towards Los Angeles. It’s a good six hours-plus if I choose the direct route. Instead, I opt for the scenic version, California State Route 1 – the coast road – until time gets tight and I divert onto a more direct freeway. And then it happens. A mate said I wouldn’t hear the radio very well, but I try it and it’s astonishing – like it’s piped into my helmet. ‘The Hippo’ 104.3FM comes on and plays Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama. Arumbles past me to my left.
It cruises for 250 miles between £25 fill-ups , and over the next three days, interspersed with driving a
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