How far have you been in your nova?

[mowgli]

This is a serious post.
What is the biggest journey you have made in a nova?

I once went to the Belgian Grandprix via my mates house in Dusseldorf, from Hinckley, Leics.
About 1000miles ish

[General Baxter]

tbh only 100miles i would not trust my bodge repairs on mine lol

[Mike]

a mate of mine drove his saloon to morocco and back!!

Ive only gone about 200 mile ish in mine

[mowgli]

Ok general, but what is happening to the 16v turbo monster pickup type thing?

[General Baxter]

i swaped the std engine for the bmw lol no its come back out to play with a V6 init lol

[SRlew]

iv done hundreds of miles at a time with my nova, usualy when i got to devon etc, my mates have always said you wont get there etc but i always have lol

[liam_ere]

half off my driveway and broke down:( lol i think should open a garage. i think i'd do the best jobs ever lol

[NickWalliams]

Nurburgring about 900miles from my house

[krobinson]

To the nurburgring and back from here in northern ireland. Twice (to be fair i was toe'd home the second time)

But its about 1100 miles there and 1100 back.

Keith

[SRlew]

thats some serious miles there keith lol

[draper]

im hoping to do th e'ring this year, furthest ive evr been is about 250 miles

[Martin]

Billing and back bout 300miles i think..


Not mine tho..

Weird it got us to billing and back but couldnt make sheffield.. lmao ay mikey

[Asa-James]

leeds and back in an afternoon, dont know how far, but i'm planning a week touring France this summer so long as i get an MOT in two weeks...

[dhdev (Oli)]

Nurburgring a few times, its about a 1000mile round trip. Wouldn't be so bad if I had a heater/stereo/carpets/quiet engine/comfortable seats/windows that closed properly and didn't contantly rattle and leak :(
Worst journey was newquay and back (520miles) whilst I was running it in, freezing cold, no stereo, on my own and a max speed of 56mph with 3000rpm it was fookin mind numbing :mad: Would overtake lorries up hill and they'd come bk past on the downhills :(

[ashtal]

0 miles as of yet ! Infact i dont think i have ever driven a nova !

[JSeymour]

newquay and back - 400mile round trip

santa pod and back - 300 round trip

driven loadsa miles with no problems. touch wood

[Ash]

i did 1000 miles in a week, but didnt go further than 80 miles from my house lol newquay was about 120ish miles i think london, birmingham, not a problem, in fact i've never had a problem with the car, reliability wise just my own stupidness, eg. running out of petrol (x10ish lol) and not doing wheel bolts up. never used any oil or water between services, and i taking that engine out for one im building, doh!

A

[mowgli]

I hope to do a le Mans trip soon, the last time I went was 1995, it was my honeymoon, followed by a tour of brittany, 1500 miles in a b reg maestro 1.6 HL in a fortnight. Got drunk & got to watch the Mclaren F1GTR slaughter the 'Real Racing Cars'.

[Jack]

Did about 2000 miles in one week, in my hatch when I first went to Cornwall. Was a bit worried as I'd only just fitted the Spax adjustables a few days before, but it didn't miss a beat aside from the central locking going tits up for 5 minutes on the Lizard. Played musical fuses and all started working lol

Year later, I thought "I know, I'll take the saloon instead as it will probably be more reliable than the hatch". Got as far as Exeter (from Trowbridge) and one of the hoses decided to give up, water all over the services :roll: Although RAC man taped it up, and after stopping to fill up with water once more at around Okehampton area, it was fine all week!

Last year I took the Celica with no problems, but this year if the Nova is running before September (thats pushing it lmfao) I'll probably take that... hmmm!

[Riggy]

lol ive been all over the uk in mine , fancy a euro road trip soon though :thumb:

[draper]

lol ive been all over the uk in mine , fancy a euro road trip soon though :thumb:

i do aswell, might go on 1 for my honeymoon next year lol

[db_1.2]

Since ive owned my nova (13 months) its done, drum role please, 38 miles!

And my nova sr donar has done about 20 yardslol since i owned it in this week, from the car park i seen it sat in for sale, to the garage literally 20 yards away....

[db_1.2]

What can i say, im an economical guy:)

[Martin]

lol ive been all over the uk in mine , fancy a euro road trip soon though :thumb:

Watch out for hump back bridges lol lmao..

[Lee]

Nurburgring a few times, its about a 1000mile round trip. Wouldn't be so bad if I had a heater/stereo/carpets/quiet engine/comfortable seats/windows that closed properly and didn't contantly rattle and leak :(
Worst journey was newquay and back (520miles) whilst I was running it in, freezing cold, no stereo, on my own and a max speed of 56mph with 3000rpm it was fookin mind numbing :mad: Would overtake lorries up hill and they'd come bk past on the downhills :(

I feel your pain mate, theres nothing worse than run in time!

I want a shagged out rolling road so i can sit and drive it while watching telly and eating a roast lol

[Novadave06]

been from liverpool to the top of scotland ! Lol

[Big_Chap]

To the nurburgring and back from here in northern ireland. Twice (to be fair i was toe'd home the second time)

Keith

oft, that must have been a long drive home!

[Matt2107]

Went from Oxford - Stirling in my old jamaica yellow 1.2... 392.8miles approximately.

[craig green]

Probably Billing or santa POD. thats about 400 miles round trip. Some of my mates are doing Le Mans & the ring later in the summer, so the Nova may make it touch wood. I wouldve got it to Belgium for the Treffen a few years back, but the body shop took too long & took the parents camper van.

[cazzy223]

i have done about 1 mile round a feild.

[mikey14sr]

Billing and back bout 300miles i think..


Not mine tho..

Weird it got us to billing and back but couldnt make sheffield.. lmao ay mikey

Santa pod was 160 miles each way, billing about 150 each way, the trip to sheffield via scunny, goole and leeds was a bit too much for the old lump, especially when we were giving it some stick on the back roads.

Done Hull to norwich and back a few times, and a few two hour trips to banbury (about 20 in 3 months) back in 2002 in the saloon.

Once did Hull to Bristol to Croydon and back to Hull in a day in the astra, only had to pull over on the last leg because I was knackered, the merit never missed a beat.

[nova23]

I used an old 1.4L hatch for a company car for a year did 65k in a year with out any engine faults :D Plus I had ?300 a month for car allowance lol Car cost ?250 had 2 sets of disks and pads oil change every 12k plugs I only did every 20k, 2 sets of tyres, passed every mot with little work. Was the cheapest years motoring I have ever had, that?s very little money per miles. Engine had done nearly 200k when it was scrapped and still going strong but body was rotten. I was also amazed at what you can carry in a nova with the rear seats down, I took a rack mounted hp server, and drives from chelmsford to Cardiff in it :thumb:

[Philsutton]

about 10 hours after i passed my driving test i drove to wales and back. Thats about 200 miles each way. And yes it did **** up once i got to wales lol

[mk1nova]

me and my brother went from hull to fraserburgh top of scotland 410 miles in just over seven hours in gsi then back in snow another 415 miles or so in eight hours all within 24 hours. Then next trip out broke down half a mile from home gutted.

[chris gsi]

many years ago i did bristol to edinburgh and back in my first nova a d reg 1.3 sr on twin 40 webers filled up almost 3 times getting their

[Breeny]

Drove my turbo over to Belgium quite a few times.. didn't miss a beat :D