4th European SVT/Lightning Meeting

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The 4th European SVT/Lightning Meeting was held in Hannover in Germany on the 23rd - 25th of May 2008.

I attended this meet with our SVT Lightning and Bullitt Mustang and the trailer has already been produced and put online.

The 24th May was the actual meet and included the cruise through Hannover and through tunnels and a photoshoot with Miss Germany 2008 and a few blasts down the autobahn, I was in our Bullitt and we nearly reached 140mph! We also raised nearly $2000 US for a children's hospital in Hannover.

The 25th May was the day we went to the "secret test track" outside of Hannover and had a blast around one of their mini race tracks. I actually drove our Lightning around the track for a couple of laps eventhough I don't have a full driving license yet! It was like GT5: Prologue only more real!

Click below to find the video.

http://www.nloc.net/vbforum/gen-2-l...tbelt-lean-back-video-4th-svtmeet-2008-a.html

For more information on this meet visit www.svtmeet.com
 
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it's still weird to hear of american performance vehicles anywhere near Europe. my friends always gave me the impression that our cars have the same reputation as we do...brainless fatsos that guzzle everything in sight!
 
They do, and we do. It's just that a few people manage to see past that. Even the British automotive press occasionally likes an American car, though they can't seem to admit that fact without also throwing in that it would be 'unsuited' or 'difficult' on the B roads.

I'd like to see the state of British roads if they are too bad for a car built in Michigan, for pity's sake.
 
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it's still weird to hear of american performance vehicles anywhere near Europe. my friends always gave me the impression that our cars have the same reputation as we do...brainless fatsos that guzzle everything in sight!
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That's partly true, but at the same time there are fans. There's also quite a large contingent of American military personal who like to get their favourite cars into Europe for a little bit of home. [Edit] Wikipedia puts the figure at just over 57,000 in Germany alone.

Duke
I'd like to see the state of British roads if they are too bad for a car built in Michigan, for pity's sake.
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Sounds like a future thread ;)
 
Duke
They do, and we do. It's just that a few people manage to see past that. Even the British automotive press occasionally likes an American car, though they can't seem to admit that fact without also throwing in that it would be 'unsuited' or 'difficult' on the B roads.

I'd like to see the state of British roads if they are too bad for a car built in Michigan, for pity's sake.
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Do I sense a Jeremy Clarkson/Z06 comment in there?;)
 
Heh. Actually, it comes from reading every American car review ever published in evo, ever.
 
I can give you a breif Idea of the state of the British Roads, duke. at least the non Motorways i saw.

I flew over to spend christmas with my then better half near Glasgow. I didn't get out the door on my own, however, cause I didn't convert every penny I had to "p", and was promptly thrown in the back of a Peugeot transit van and trucked off to a detention center (where I was the only white face not on the staff!)

althought the asphalt was black enough, it looks like they couldn't get a fine grade of material in there. it looked as bad as some of the tar and Chip they use here on side roads.
 
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I can give you a breif Idea of the state of the British Roads, duke. at least the non Motorways i saw.

I flew over to spend christmas with my then better half near Glasgow. I didn't get out the door on my own, however, cause I didn't convert every penny I had to "p", and was promptly thrown in the back of a Peugeot transit van and trucked off to a detention center (where I was the only white face not on the staff!)

althought the asphalt was black enough, it looks like they couldn't get a fine grade of material in there. it looked as bad as some of the tar and Chip they use here on side roads.
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When you guys exerience Australian roads then I will let you complain about other country's roads if you still want to.;)
 
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When you guys exerience Australian roads then I will let you complain about other country's roads if you still want to.;)
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During my travels around Europe, Canada and US (which I am currently still in the middle of) and driving on these local roads, Australian roads really are not that bad in comparison, there are some good and bad roads in all of these countries.
 
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During my travels around Europe, Canada and US (which I am currently still in the middle of) and driving on these local roads, Australian roads really are not that bad in comparison, there are some good and bad roads in all of these countries.
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Well I guess I live in a really bad country area here. The road level can vary by a foot within a couple metres.:scared: And geneally speaking there isn't a single good spot.
 
Duke
I'd like to see the state of British roads if they are too bad for a car built in Michigan, for pity's sake.
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No. No you wouldn't.
 
Driving across Michigan is is akin to driving from Beirut into Syria, without the actual gunfire and explosives (once you get away from Detroit, that is). I can't imagine normal British roads are any worse.
 
Duke
Driving across Michigan is is akin to driving from Beirut into Syria, without the actual gunfire and explosives (once you get away from Detroit, that is). I can't imagine normal British roads are any worse.
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That's British motorways.

British A-roads are quite like driving across the lunar surface, and with roughly similar average speeds. British B-roads are more like being inside a washing machine on fast-spin cycle with an extremely angry tiger. Unclassified roads? I'm not even touching that one with a 7 mile long pole.
 
hehe...you guys haven't seen some Pennsylvania roads, yet. michigan does have a potholey reputation, and apparently, so does California.
 

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