CarAdvice in Strasbourg
February 25, 2008 by Alborz Fallah
Our second day of adventure began when we arrived at Frankfurt airport this morning.
But our bags didn’t… for another hour.
The bus that was suppose to take us to Strasbourg was overbooked, and typically, the French bus driver was completely useless.
So after much complaining….
The bus company gave us a hire car, a brand new diesel Ford Mondeo.
Then we got completely lost.
Then the Mondeo had a puncture at about 200km/h.
We changed the tyre… on the autobahn.
We went back to the rental company and got a new car, a Peugeot 307 SW (not our choice!).
Then we got even more lost. Tony tried to speak French, but that didn’t work either.
After an average driving speed of well over 180km/h, we finally arrived in Strasbourg and checked into Hotel Bugatti.
Stay tuned as tomorrow (Monday – France time) we will begin our 2 day supercar odyssey with Bugatti Automobile. But since we’ve been awake for 45hrs straight, we might need some sleep first.
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lol sounds fun
Hope that tyre didn’t go at 220. Have a rest then enjoy.
Top tip…try to speak the lingo, its much appreciated.
Oh and hire a Sat Nav or buy one for 200Euros.
What a Mondeo? Conspiracy…….
Sounds like fun at bit more normal speeds then Downunder.
Who are those lads in t-shirts with suit jacket on. They dont look French? Bloody Australians…Ha Ha.
Oh yeah, love the pics as heaps of them! Thats what sets you guys apart from the other drab dry dreary regimental sites as you actively participate and regularly mingle with chat with all. That is unreal and we all appreciate the class you guys bring as the others flounder hey!
Hey were the hell is ALBORZ is he taking happy snaps. Or is he drinking it…..the snapps? Ha Ha Ha
Ciao
Awesome, can’t imagine how excited you guys must be. Can’t believe you had a puncture at 200!
I mean to say 200k’s. At those speeds unless its a blow out things aren’t too bad, the centrifugal force tends to keep the tyre the same diametre and shape, enough to drive. Just don’t carry on too long ar it will pop. I had one at 140k’s and barely noticed it until someone flashed me and I slowed down.
The map scale look way to samll to be easy! :(
Hotel Le Bugatti,Rue de la Commanderie, awesome! only a couple of blocks away from the holy grail now!
hahahaha,sounds like me whan I go OS.Hope the rest of the trip goes well,get some sleep.
We got a flat on the Shelby in the states last year on the first day.Not at 200 clicks though.Hope TP doesn’t get on here saying your only alive cause it was front wheel drive,hehehe.
Glad you held on to it.Why is Karl looking so happy ,cause Mr Crawford seems to be doing all the work!
looks like an adventure
that seems a lot of fun, punctured tyre and you guys got the replacement car, i wish aussie companies could be so customer friendly.thats a one confusing map in your hands. no wonder y you lost.
good going guys. sleep well.
I’m jealous. Sitting here in my cubicle at work on monday morning for another 8 hours and you guys are flitting around the world driving supercars. bastards!
BASTARDS…..Nice lucky bastards may I add!
Typical Karl – should be changing tyres and he is posing for the Camera!
Flat tyre at 200kph….
What speed are the Mondeo’s standard tyres rated to?
Okay, now that you had an XR5T Mondeo review, where’s the Diesel review now? :)
Can’t wait for Bugatti review :D
After seeing and hearing it on Thursday at the Clipsal I’m even more infatuated with it.
Please take lots of pics of the factory and any wild colour scheme some customer has ordered.
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Na! Anyway the Peugeot is a better car than the mondeo!
Duck,
I really don’t need to hear your rubbish, i’ll take the facts thanks.
Duck,
go educate yourself first mate then come back and comment.
so have you guys brushed up on your “touch parking” skills yet?
i found it quite spun how they actually fit a 4m vehicle into a 3.5m space
Duck you’re clearly quackers mate. Pug 307 better than the Mondie. Durrh.
200kmh at 3500rpm sweet. hey no name which diesel donk would this be? doesn’t the euro mondeo have 2 options 1.8 or 2.0?
DUCK….your outta luck as your brain seems to be stuck you dumb f**k.
Hi Lcat – Dunno mate, nobody puts engine sizes ont there cars anymore other than Merc and BMW and they get it wrong.
An educated guess would be the 2.0litre 105Kw model to go that sorta speed at those revs. The 1.8 would take a while to get that fast. Its a base model the ‘edge’ I think as it has steel wheels. Anything above would have alloys.
Most of these 2.0models should be doing about 2400rpm at 110Kmh.
Just checked the ford website, they do 2 different outputs from 1.8 and 2.0 engines. 1.8 rated at 75Kw only good for 180kmh, a 1.8lit 94 Kw good for 198kmh, a 2.0 97.5kw (auto only) and the 105Kw top end 203Kw. Seems like they were thrashing it then, but having said that I had a 2.0litre rated at 192kmh but did do 205kmh once.
thanks no name. i guess the other thing to consider would be speedo % error…
Speed error – My wifes last car a Laguna wagon had Sat Nav and cruise. You’d set the speed on the cruise to 80mph, the Sat Nav was saying you were doing 78mph and the speedo was aimed at 84mph…Uh. In this day and age its not good enough but speedos tend to over read Yes?
They will have dumped the Pug now for the Bug…ha ha :)