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Greatest drives

On the greatest cars and the greatest roads

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Tue
Dec 21 2004

Ford Focus to Morocco

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You might remember reading one of Colin Goodwin's finest stories over your Christmas dinner 2004. Our festive double issue that year contained the yarn of Colin's week-long drive south, through Europe, to Morocco, in a brand new Ford Focus, with new staff snapper Mitch Peshavria.

As you'll read, during his week with the brand new Ford, Colin managed to traverse cities, climb mountains, and get stuck in the sand; his full story is below.

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Wed
Jan 01 2003

The Road Trip

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In October 2002, Autocar's motoring editor Steve Sutcliffe, road test editor Chris Harris and photographer Tom Salt set out on a journey that they called 'The Road Trip'.

But this was no ordinary road trip. Published in January 2003, this was the story of a bona-fide supercar, the Lamborghini Murcielago, and the hottest of hot hatches, the Ford Focus RS.

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Wed
Mar 17 1993

Halfway around the world in a week

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How many miles do you think you could put on a car in a week? Well, back in 1993 - as Autocar writers James Thomas, Allan Muir, Peter McSean, Peter Robinson, Gavin Conway, Michael Harvey and Steve Sutcliffe found out - the answer was 12,000. Just.

Their mission was to take the brand new Ford Mondeo on a non-stop, tag-team grand tour of Europe that would take in as many countries as you could count.

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Wed
Apr 01 1992

The Sicilian

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The Targa Florio road race, and its native Sicilian champion Nino Vaccarella, were the subjects of one of the most memorable drive stories ever to appear in Autocar. It's genuis was a rare and brilliant combination of subject matter, personel, location and car; it was written by former European editor Peter Robinson, and titled The Sicilian.

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Tue
Feb 25 1992

201.4mph!

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We couldn't have picked a worse time of year to attempt it. Nonetheless, back in February 1992, Autocar's Associate editor David Vivian, photographer Stan Papior, advanced driving guru John Lyon and Lamborghini technical specialist Del Hopkins took a Lamborghini Diablo to the German autobahns for one reason, and one reason only; to prove that you could drive safely on the public road at close to 200mph.

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Wed
Jul 11 1990

Storming the Stelvio

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Ever felt the need to escape from the summer traffic and break out for a drive with a difference? In June 1990, Peter Robinson did.

It was that impulse that led him to climb the Stelvio Pass, once the highest road in the world.

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