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Old 28-03-2006, 07:03 PM   #1
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Default possibly the worlds greatest driving road?

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do...leId=109278#32

cool.

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Old 28-03-2006, 07:54 PM   #2
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Yeah, that is pretty damn cool. Wouldnt mind going for a drive on that.
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Old 28-03-2006, 08:02 PM   #3
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Amazing what they can build over there through that terrain and the garbage we get to drive on here.
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Old 28-03-2006, 09:09 PM   #4
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Thats unbelievable. And no info on who built it and whatever. Its nuts.

If i ever go over seas im goin there and hiring a decent car and going for a drive up that bugger.
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Old 29-03-2006, 12:14 AM   #5
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If i ever go over seas im goin there and hiring a decent car and going for a drive up that bugger.
I think I would rather hire a decent bike :evil3:
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Old 29-03-2006, 12:56 AM   #6
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pfft to the mini. Let the gt out on it
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Old 29-03-2006, 01:09 AM   #7
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they spent roughly 14 million per km to build that road, i wonder how much per k they spend on ours
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Old 29-03-2006, 10:44 AM   #8
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they spent roughly 14 million per km to build that road, i wonder how much per k they spend on ours
By the feel and look of some of ours I would say $14 per Km
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Old 29-03-2006, 11:43 AM   #9
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Lol, $14/km!!

Amazing looking piece of road tho innit....
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A new international V8 Supercar Sprint racing track maybe, to replace China?
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Old 29-03-2006, 01:31 PM   #11
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they spent roughly 14 million per km to build that road, i wonder how much per k they spend on ours

25million based of Mexican Revenue Raising capabilities
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Old 29-03-2006, 01:42 PM   #12
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Wow - thats tre-rad.
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Old 29-03-2006, 01:44 PM   #13
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Not a bad idea, the surface would get scorched and turned to rubble in no time though ;p
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pfft to the mini. Let the gt out on it
in the middle east id feel more secure in an Abrams MBT then a GT.
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Old 29-03-2006, 04:11 PM   #15
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Nice, thats a road just screaming out for the new Ford GT.
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Old 29-03-2006, 04:22 PM   #16
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My thoughts exactly :
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Old 29-03-2006, 07:08 PM   #17
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they spent roughly 14 million per km to build that road, i wonder how much per k they spend on ours

From scratch, between $200,000 and $500,000 per Km.

Brilliant road for a big sports bike. Doesn't look like they've got those deadly little reflective things on the lines that we have here either. Gold.
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Old 29-03-2006, 09:46 PM   #18
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Nah. I'd prefer the phase 3 to do that road.
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Old 29-03-2006, 11:17 PM   #19
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Thats the idea! Old fat muscle! No other way to drive! Cornering might be a little average!
For something completely different, I'd like an Arial Atom and see how that handles the bends.....hoping its bottom end grunt would cope with the hills.
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Old 30-03-2006, 01:56 AM   #20
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Since some of us are dreaming about driving this road it might as well be in a Bugatti Veyron EB16.4. Damn its a mean car.....
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Old 30-03-2006, 01:05 PM   #21
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That concrete barrier kind of takes a little away from it, it'd be like driving in a concrete car park. I wonder how much of a view you get from car level. Hmm, maybe that's the reason why they built it like that, it'd make you concentrate on the road and not the scenery!

Wish some of our roads were built to the same standard though...
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Old 30-03-2006, 07:01 PM   #22
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Old 31-03-2006, 01:20 AM   #23
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but where does the road go?
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Old 01-04-2006, 12:33 AM   #24
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it goes to the mercure hotel on top of the mountain
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Old 01-04-2006, 12:47 AM   #25
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I remember seeing on Top Gear that road that Jeremy Clarkson gives the Audi RS6 everything on .... I am sure it was the RS6 .... he had to beat the mountain climbers to the top of the summit .... but it was a 2 hour drive (thrash more like it).

Now that was a top driving road ... at least you get the most fun out of it ... whereas this road mentioned here is only 7.3 miles long (well ... not long really.)
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I remember seeing on Top Gear that road that Jeremy Clarkson gives the Audi RS6 everything on .... I am sure it was the RS6 .... he had to beat the mountain climbers to the top of the summit .... but it was a 2 hour drive (thrash more like it).

Now that was a top driving road ... at least you get the most fun out of it ... whereas this road mentioned here is only 7.3 miles long (well ... not long really.)
It was the 2005 Audi RS4.
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Old 01-04-2006, 09:17 AM   #27
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Don't tell Bracks about this road. He will be MAKING 14 million per km! Two cameras will do it....:
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