The Cotswolds Canter Supercar Drive

Editorial Team — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:14:04 +0000

The Cotswolds Canter supercar drive is over for another year and what a fantastic WWOW Scenic Stay & Dramatic Drive it was!

We had commenced our two-day adventure at McLaren Birmingham who provided some of the world’s largest Bacon Baps ever seen! A short, spirited squirt around Stratford saw us arrive (and stop the traffic!) in Broadway.

Discovering Treasure

Julian at The Man Cave Broadway showed us around his wonderful treasure trove full of supercar drive and motoring gifts, ideas and movie memorabilia.

Supercar Drive History

We beat off the admiring onlookers to wizz off for a supercar drive down the Foss Way, arriving at just in time for lunch at The Classic Motor Hub which is steeped in motor history, where every vehicle has a story or two to tell!

Fully fuelled up, we headed out for more food!! A splendid Afternoon Tea was laid on for us at Rybrook Specialist Cars in Bristol – thank you guys…we left a lot on the table!

Shooting For The Podium

Delightfully quirky bedrooms rooms and a private dining experience, both superb awaited our band of supercar drive travellers, at the welcoming The Frogmill Hotel.

Next morning their yummy breakfasts assisted our short hop to a few hours spent clay shooting at Ian Coley Sporting. Here, top class coaching saw us all reach greater “hotshot” achievements than any of us thought possible!

All the explosive action was accompanied by significant competitive banter as we had split into two teams “Telescopic Rod” V “Trigger Happy” truly developed into a battle of the Titans of Popping spinning pottery!

The competition for a share of the silverware & the dizzy heights of a top step on the podium was intense

Supercar Pitstop

We decided we had not yet had that much to eat on this supercar drive, so we took the opportunity to visit the newly opened The Piston Club at The Stagg, where lunch on Day two was delicious!

So Glad You Joined Our Supercar Drive

Huge thanks to McLaren Birmingham who did a wonderful job, being both caring & supportive sponsors and joining us for the entire supercar drive.

Sinan Omer from Rybrook Specialist Cars brought the most beautiful Lantana Purple McLaren GT in … which I suspect Kristian & Amie Harris will be buying very soon!

We couldn’t have done it without all the WWOWZERS that took part, – Logan, Paul, Kristian, Amie, Richard, Ian, Jackie, Carl, Gary & Sarah… you were all fantastic

Thank you all for coming on the Cotsowlds Canter, supercar drive, and making the WWOW community such a fantastic Supercar Club – you are all due a Telescopic Rod for Xmas!

If you would like to participate in the next WWOW Cotswolds Canter supercar drive and scenic stay, or any of our other drives and events apply to join WWOW Supercar club today

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On His Majesty’s Secret Service

Editorial Team — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:51:05 +0000

10 Cars , 13 People & Hundreds of Bad Inappropriate Jokes

WWOW starts with Supercars but it’s much more about the journey & the company who assembled at McLaren Leeds last week for the customary warm welcome & great coffee

As ever, there was a round of slight arm twisting for the Barnsley Baron who is looking to trade in his Lavender 720 for the new 750… that may, or may not be available later this year.

He’s on the list, but paid no deposit … Hhmmn what are his chances?

Day 1

We headed North, (you probably guessed that!) on the A1M, off at Barnard Castle for a quick eye test followed by the first real road test, up and over to Alston

Here we encountered our first snow as the temp dropped from a mild 6 to a scary -2 in a couple of miles. A change of underwear was necessary for a few of us at the BIG RED TEXACO garage, where the breakfast dodgers grabbed a crumbling Ginsters Chicken & Mushroom for smearing on their Alcantara before we seamlessly joined up with Nick Algar in Brampton

Over the border & on our way for lunch in Moffat we encountered the worst snow blizzard most of us have ever experienced, resulting in the RS3 coming to rest up a kerb, sniffing a lamp post! Well, rather that than up the bum of a GR Yaris!

Liam, who had the roof of his McLaren 650 Spider DOWN!! deciding that sideways was always the best way to exit most junctions.

Andy Claxton moaned about his tyres, which made a very pleasant change from his usual topic “Oh, the price of stuff these days” and his steering geometry being “all to cock”

We sensibly choose the slush of the motorway over the snow of the mountains on the drive to Glasgow when BINGO!… the sun came out!! Four seasons all in 45 minutes. No such thing as bad weather…just bad car & tyre combo

The 5pm commuters of Glasgow were swatted behind us and 40 minutes later we checked into our neat little hotel. We hooked up with our Scottish chums, Kenny & Stuart for first of many drone shots directed by Wayne (2) Goodman

Our day came to a lovely refreshing close at the stunning Cameron House Hotel, perched on the banks of Loch Lomond.

A few looseners’ in quite beautiful Great Scott’s Bar was followed by dinner in the famous Cameron Grill.

It was all reassuringly expensive; the food was exquisite!

Day 2

What a day! We had free rein to thrash around Scotland in the Alpine as Stuart works for Specialist Cars Aberdeen. The disarmingly young salesman had arranged 30 minutes for each of us in the French rocket, whilst that guy, Kenny Mc took the wheel of our cars and told us each in turn how utterly shite they were!

It was the best way to test drive a car – all motor retailers take note and join us in the future…as this is indeed, the future!

A much-needed coffee on the West coast at Oban, then heads down to the focal point of the trip… The 007 Skyfall Road

There is something very haunting about the location; everyone feels it and we inevitably stay longer than planned, just trying to get that one epic shot at the correct angle. It certainly stays in the memory as a great place for picture …even if it does look like everyone is having a sneaky wee!

Heading for lunch, we had a photo op’ stop in Glen Coe followed by what for me was the drive of a lifetime on the best twisting & turning, challenging valley roads down the mountains – the highlight of which was a very rapid plumbers van

Clearly well over the speed limit, determined to get somewhere earlier then when he’d set off, that youth was exhibiting superb driving skills: hopefully he got to wherever major leak it was he was flying to in good time?

At lunch we bid farewell to our Scottish chums, with Kenny & Stuart heading back to Dundee & Aberdeen

Post a traditional “everything with batter” lunch, the recharged 5 strong GR Yaris Clan once again vapourised over the horizon into the slight mist, leaving the Mc 650 & RS3 to zip along to our hotel in Dunfermline for our private dining experience

Once again, the food was fabulous and the jovial waiter simply added more hilarity to an already giddy group – giddy on account of the free bottles of very agreeable Aldi plonk, kindly supplied from the back of one of his sheds, by Arthur “Two-Sheds” Jackson

Day 3

What a sight the Queensferry Crossing is – it never fails to impress, despite the Scottish mist (heavy rain to you & me)

It takes about an hour to get free of Edinburgh’s tentacles & it’s millions of speed cameras, but we all decided no wee stop was necessary as we had now found some great roads & were started to get face-ache from grinning at the sheer fun of it all!

It was all going so well until the days enjoyable adventure turned into a proper Dramatic Drive!

In a comedy ending no script writer would ever have got away with, the two Wayne’s were left fixing a wheel, a world away from the rest of the pack… who in true Top Gear Road Trip style had buggered off to the pub, claiming radio contact had been lost! Bastards!

Limping 8 miles on a totally flat front we ended up in the Keilder Reservoir Car Park, without a jack, hammering rainfall and no phone signal…

The one other car in the park was Victor from Wetherby, in his new Lexus that he’d purchased in Edinburgh earlier that day. My best pleading saw Victor loan a total, bedraggled and slightly anxious stranger all his new shiny boot tools on the vague promise that I’d get them back to him, sometime, somehow, soon-ish

Eternal thanks to “Handsome Wayne 2” Goodman, who was a saint amongst sinners & between us we somehow plugged the huge side wall split and limped into The Big Town of Newcastle for a “not quite right, but it’ll get you home pet!” budget tyre solution

The rest of the travellers had a lovely lunch & perhaps quite rightly dispersed to all points of the compass

A fabulous group of people, all home safe & already looking forward to the next WWOW Dramatic Drive

Special Thanks to

Nick Algar for the planning, routes & GR Yaris leadership

Stuart at Alpine for the innovative test drive

Kenny Mc for his overview of our run around his playground

Wayne Goodman “Handsome Wayne 2” for the pro pics & being a saint fixing my wheel!

Victor – What a Good Samaritan…and yes I did return all his tools to Wetherby

Driver of the Day – Absolutely no question; only one contender

Liam Bullough well over 1,000 miles in the snow, many with the roof down in a McLaren 650 Spider –

Legend or Lunatic…we may never know

If you would like to participate in the next Scottish Scenic Stay or any of our other drives and events apply to join WWOW Supercar club today

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