One end of the spectrum to the other....
In Italy it's a 2004 Fiat Punto for city demolition driving. Seen below in my patented 3 wheel Neapolitan parking job.
State side...Audi R8
Nothing like going 5 wide when there are only three painted lanes
A few years back I went on a family touring holiday and hired a VW Passat Estate at Bologna airport and had a great 2 weeks in Tuscany and Umbria. It got a little more fun when I got to Rome but I then went to the Neapolitan Riveria in mid August in it which ranks as one of my most idiotic decisions. You enter a different world when you exit the autostrada at Naples when any rules you thought applied to driving go by the wayside and to compound it further you are clearly a stupid tourist in a car 4 times bigger than most other cars.I learnt hand signals and gestures I have never had need to use since and for the full week I was there I had to abandon the car rather than park it.Whilst I can state I have vistied Positano I never actually stopped and even though I managed to park in a viewing spot on the amalfi drive it turned out to the kids amusement that the couple in the Punto parked next to us were in the full throes of all out passion. Puntos and Naples bring back rather vivid memories for me
Try 2 lanes tuning into 5 with the sidewalk now 2 additional lanes happening as I speak. Italians celebrate liberation day by sitting in hours of traffic.
It was these little Piaggio Ape that amazed me the most not only for the number of people they could carry but the different uses and places you found them.I have thought about buying one as a daily drive for the commute but they do not seem to corner that well !
Had a Honda s2000 which I made money on, now have a 10yr old merc c class in silver for gentle cruising. I prefer to spend my discretionary income on watches!
Photo from when I bought it and it still had its wheel center caps. Breaking into / stealing bits off of cars is apparently the major pastime here in California so they're long gone.
What are your initial impressions? This is very high up on my list after years of kicking myself for not pulling the trigger on the 1M.
