2017 Panamera Road Trip
 

Halfway through a road trip through the Champagne region of France, Switzerland, Italian lakes then on to Germany and Belgium.

Very comfortable on the motorways, rapid as anything but kept the Abarth in the rear view mirror up the mountain roads. It'll never be a 911 but you can't have your back massaged in a 911 while carrying 3 people!

Downside.... Channel Tunnel killed the alloys...
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Sorry to hear about your damaged wheels but it looks like you are having the trip of a lifetime!! Keep those photos coming please.

nice trip and lovely roads!

the channel tunnel had me on tenderhooks driving in that rut. i was literally cr*ping myself.

enjoy your holiday.

really looks like a great trip and lots of fun!


don´t worry too much about the wheels, these can be fixed easily - could have been worse!

sounds like an awesome trip!!!

no comfort now i know but the top tip for the tunnel is book yourself onto the carriages for "high" or basically commercial vehicles as the carriage is much wider, no alloys issue. i've watched a number of videos from the youTube fraternity who use the chunnel a lot and they all do this to get the width needed for their various wide supercars.

top tip! nice one.

Great advice on the tunnel, shall definitely be doing that next time!
​​​​​​Some more pics from today's drive to Germany. Only about 5km of unrestricted but managed 130 easily, shocking how often Citroën C3 etc just pull out, which really gets the adrenaline flowing!

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https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/rennlis...b42d8d3c8b.jpgCharging the battery on the downhill.
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Coming down the mountain with regeneration really is fun, all those other saps burning away their pads whilst the ehybrid is adding free kms. Smart.

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Black forest to Bruges. Black forest has the best driving roads I've seen.
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Great to know :D

How does a tunnel kill wheels?

It's the car train that runs between the UK and France - it has very narrow lanes (look at the pic).

stunning pictures, AJ!


looks like you really had a good trip!


did you pass by also in Austria or only Germany/Switzerland?


I also plan to do a roadtrip through the mountains being able to really enjoy the car ;-)

France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Luxembourg (haha), Belgium and France.

3 Adults + a 1 year old - in relatively high comfort - with those in the back enjoying the entertainment system which streams very nicely from the on board Wifi. For those in the UK - pay the money and get FlexiPlus in the tunnel (they physically walk you past the long immigration queues) and get a Sanef tag for the French tolls - you slow down to about 50kph then punch straight through the toll gates.

That tunnel train design is idiotic - I (gently) scraped 3 wheels in that tunnel on my brand new 911 Turbo S during Euro delivery this summer. There are basically sharp metal rails on both sides, and for tires of taller profiles the wheel isw above the sharp edge, so no curbing happens. Low profile tires curb in an instant.