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| Message: | I guess it really depends upon how one defines/envisions "touring." My wife and I, for instance, have rather different views of what that means. To her, it is a leisurely drive along a not very twisty road, such as a coastal beach route in her 4.2 S-Type Sport (a superbly handling and cornering car) with the sunroof open, cruising around the speed limit at about a 2 to 3/10ths pace. My version is more traditional European GTO style, twisty mountain roads, flat out down the straights, driving about 6 to 8/10ths just for the bloody thrill of it. I believe my XKR Coupe was designed for exactly that kind of driving. It can certainly approach 1G in the corners (I'll measure the full capabilities once I have the AutoIngenuity software hooked up), and could probably turn in lap times comparable to some very good race cars of just a few generations ago. To me, GTO--Grand Touring--is just that: very fast touring on both mountain roads and freeways in a very comfortable, luxurious automobile. I have crossed England once, the USA twice, and Canada once, plus driven the US west coast from Canada to Mexico (and vice versa) a few times and from New York to Florida once, all in my current XKR. There is no way in hell I would ever contemplate making such drives in a Ferrari or Lambo, nor an Aston Martin, Ford GT, or most other "super cars" (of which caliper I consider the XKR). At least not without a full support crew in a truck and trailer following me. One of my legs between fuel stops when crossing Canada was over 550 miles!!! This was on a single tank of fuel, I carried no spare fuel. You would need to be pulling a spare fuel TRAILER with any of the aforementioned cars to attempt such a feat. | ||||
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