France & Monaco Holiday - What A Car

[j1sgo]

Came back from a 2 week France holiday last week, and all i can say is .... what a great car the RS4 is.

I cant think of another vehicle you can load to the roof with family luggage and yet still be playing with fast cars and bikes on the excellent French twisty roads (particularly the A75 that goes forever lol)








We were down south during the 1st week and it was 36 degrees


Couldnt resist a day out to visit Monaco, again excellent roads and the tunnels both to and in Monaco were the perfect excuse for a sound blast




Had to drive the shicane



Random jet bike pic - great fun


Found a good use for the 12v boot point


See what i mean by to the roof!!


The Ipad was essential to traveling so far with a 2 year old


The only picture i have of the car


Just thought i would share as i can honestly say a good percentage of my holiday enjoyment was driving this awsome car.

Steve

[ShouldveBeenAGerman]

Fantastic pics

[ArthurPE]

very cute little girl
must take after the mom (just kidding)

what bridge is that? BMW has shot more than a few M adverts on it
it's an amazing structure

[j1sgo]

Cheers, your right about following her mother

Its the Millau bridge, tallest in France was pretty amazing.

[api330]

Nice to see you cleaned it when you got there, Great pics as well.

[neckarsulm]

Nice pics.
Did this in my 911 in March - no room for kids however cute though!
Would have been nice in RS4 though heavier on fuel and brakes!
Millau is interesting but Route Napoleon (south of Digne Les Bains) is mind blowing.
The best road though was Nice to Digne, can't recall the number but it follows the River Var up into the Alps.
Col de Turini was OK too, still had rubber laid down by WRC a few weeks earlier and nice cafe up top - shame that memory was tainted with the realisation that the water pump was leaking (it got me home OK!).
Passed so many speed traps on autoroutes put me off going back, mind you 90 Euro fine for 166 km/h at Bethune 40 miles from Calais on A26 was a bargain!

[j1sgo]

Nice pics and 911, there were a lot of speed cameras, however I thought they were good warning signs, just before each one, I got more fed up with the tolls tbh.

French roads are so much better than ours in every sense, also 80mph is definitely the correct motorway limit not 70

Averaged about 20mpg mostly, but wouldn't have changed the car for double the mpg

When I pulled into 1garage the owner came out and said "nice car, she is fast yes, I have a 1989 v8 Audi that is 300 hp"

They do like the rs4 over there, had a few comments and looks an scooby tried to race me from a toll so I gave him a thrashing and he pulled up Alongside after with his thumbs up

[neckarsulm]

The French love the RS4, even the B5, weird as so few drive anything of interest (plus an RS4 of any type has infinitely more cred at the ring than almost any 911 this side of GT3 RS 4.0) - did I see one in June on 2 trips there? Nope. 911s? Ten a penny.

As well as the fixed cameras which indeed are signposted (although I didn't know what the sign was at first, looks like Wifi zone ahead!) they have loads of sneaky speed traps, double lense cameras on tripods just sitting on the hard shoulder, often over the wall of services with motorbike cops ready to come after you - missed a few by stopping for fuel and saw them on the way out - maybe you did too with 20 mpg! Or the police sit side on just off the hard shoulder facing you with laser pointing at you - got saved my overtaking an SUV which blocked his view (on the near motorway near Lyon).

Did you stop overnight? If so where? I did Reims and a place up in the Correncon mountains near Grenoble (amazing roads there too) on way down but just 1 on way back in Bourgogne.

[Ian_C]

I got more fed up with the tolls tbh.

You can't really do windows down, full bore launch everytime [like we do en route to Le Mans] with car full of luggage, wife and 4 year old!

[j1sgo]

I stayed in a caravan in Le Grande Motte the 1st week for my fathers 60th where they were staying and one in Sameur the second week just with the wife and baby, nothing posh but the braek was awsome, pool and beer every day

I left the baby with the grandparents on the day we went to Monaco so plenty of full bore driving (maybe thats why my rear shock is leaking )

[merlinus98]

wonder if I haven't seen your car in the street (my RS4 and I live in Monaco), your plate number reminds me something...

[neckarsulm]

merlinus, have you ever seen that F40 around?

[merlinus98]

merlinus, have you ever seen that F40 around?

and many other special series GT (latest were two special series Aventador); in fact, when you live in Monaco, practically no car can surprise you.

[neckarsulm]

I was surprised how many boring cars there were on Monaco plates but I guess not everyone is a tax exile millionaire - someone needs to polish their yachts etc

[j1sgo]

wonder if I haven't seen your car in the street (my RS4 and I live in Monaco), your plate number reminds me something...

Would love to live in Monaco, shame when I went they were doing some kind of horse show, spiolt the view of the marina from the cafe we had a panini in

I was only there a few hours but still saw some nice motors......458, gt3 4.0, panamera turbo etc etc

The rs4 got a few looks, I love it when they look after you have past them, that sums up the rs4s noise