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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'll see your Huracan, and raise you a Königsegg Agera R with Ski-box 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I reality I'd take a Audi RS6 with Litchfield upgrades, in the real world pretty much as fast, but a lot more practical.
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Any hire car
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Or a 17 year old plumber's van.
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What's the van that the 17 year old plumber owns?
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Does it have winter tires and clearance for chains ? 
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The point of the RS6 is it's subtleness , not that monstrosity.
Unless you know it has 560PS it does not look much different than a 3.0TDI.
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If I could go to the Alps in any car it would be RS6 (not that hideous thing above with the snow-plough on the front though) or a RSQ5 (or whatever the sorted ones called), my absolute favourite cars. it'd be great fun battering these down through Germany on the Autobahns.....  .....and calling at every other fuel station on route!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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(Supposedly) last weekend in Valdesquí in central Spain. Widely and erroneously reported to belong to Cristiano Ronaldo (and the silly hacks didn't even correctly identify the ski resort.. they'd have not shone brightly on the Guess the Ski Area thread); IIUC Lamborghini ended up confirming that it belongs to one of their other Madrid clients.
Last edited by snowHeads are a friendly bunch. on Fri 27-01-17 10:18; edited 2 times in total
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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It's funny how the Audi is the car of choice, every time I drive to Alps, I set cruise at 149kph & the only cars that sit right up my chuff while I am overtaking are UK registared Audi's
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My brother has an RS6 with litchfield upgrades. I think its 740bhp. Absolutely awesome car.
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You know it makes sense.
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Meh, fast Audis attract that certain kind of onanist driver you used to find in the BMW M3, and that kind of association is frankly, unacceptable.
Order me up a Mercedes CLS 63 AMG Shooting Brake, or maybe I'll wait for that new Alfa Stelvio with the 2.9 twin turbo... plus its hansom for a pocket SUV
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Everyone knows the fastest way up to a ski village is in a Renault Clio van, in yellow with "La Poste" on the side. Nothing overtakes so well either, going up or down. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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| musher wrote: |
| Or a 17 year old plumber's van. |
1.9 diesel Astra? Quickest thing on the planet 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Thornyhill, Yep, Astra van all the way, and if you put ladders on the roof it goes even faster.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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No roads to our village, so it has to be...
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Anything with the words Gumball 3000 on it is a sure sign of arseholedom.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I would imaging a Range Rover SVR on 20 inch rims with snow tyres would be the vehicle of choice to get to the Alps for the wealthy in a hurry. Fuel economy is dire, but hey ho.
Not the Overfinch one, a bit footballer.
Last time I drove a RS6 got off the train at the same time and sped off, saw it 3 times later in the day ( last time coming into Moutier, so those fuel stops do slow the trip down. I stopped once in Lyon, the magic of the modern diesel.
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Interesting. It's just that the whole point of those really ugly cars is presumably the ego of the person who makes them - the idea of buying one second hand seems odd. I'd rather have the old Clio van.
You don't see many of those vehicles in the Tesco car park here.
I reckon the spoilers on that Lambo would not make it up to most ski resorts.
Diesel: I get the range thing, but they're not to pleasant for people who need to breathe.
I liked the BMW i3 a lot, and it was way faster in the snow (with suitable rubber) than most of these toy cars would be.
Overall I don't much care about the car, but radar assisted cruise control is just brilliant.
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I would imaging a Range Rover SVR on 20 inch rims with snow tyres would be the vehicle of choice to get to the Alps for the wealthy in a hurry. Fuel economy is dire, but hey ho.
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Yeah but the limit is not going to be the power but its ability to go round bends (where 4wd doesn't help and weight harms) - I bet you could go faster round hairpins on a mountain road in a fiat panda (with proper tyres natch)!
And these RS6 things with carbon roofboxes. I reckon the great advantage of a big estate is that you can put the skis in a ski bag through the ski hatch and not bother with racks and boxes. We bought the skoda ski bag for our humble octavia and can get 4 pairs of skis and four people inside the car. So much less faff.
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@jedster, From experience , the 8 hours on the motorway are where you make time, not the last 40 km up the mountains. I know from watching the locals that a Fiat Panda is king of the hill, great if you live there but not for the drive from Calais.
A Range Rover with Snow tyres would be pretty good on the roads up though.
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@jedster, From experience , the 8 hours on the motorway are where you make time
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true enough but almost any modern car will cruise fast enough to get you arrested on a motorway!
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There was a guy who came on SH years ago, a Verbier regular with an Aston Martin. He used to strap his skis to the roof using a portable/inflatable roofrack. I found the post from 2007 but unfortunately thé photo is no longer available.
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Last time I drove a RS6 got off the train at the same time and sped off, saw it 3 times later in the day ( last time coming into Moutier, so those fuel stops do slow the trip down. I stopped once in Lyon, the magic of the modern diesel.
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Even an RS6 will do over 500km on a tank, perhaps the driver or passenger had a weak bladder!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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almost any modern car will cruise fast enough to get you arrested on a motorway!
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especially with current lower speed limits because of pollution. 
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Not this
https://www.flickr.com/photos/48625620@N00/331331085
Friends took their lpg sj410 and nearly died of boredom - huge diversions to find fuel, huge screaming engine noise, damaged spines and all at the speed of an arthritic slug. I think you might get the same sensation by driving an RS to the Alps in first gear all the way, same cruising speed, same fuel consumption, vibration and noise level.
Last edited by So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much  on Sat 28-01-17 9:50; edited 1 time in total
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You know it makes sense.
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Meh, fast Audis attract that certain kind of onanist driver you used to find in the BMW M3, and that kind of association is frankly, unacceptable.
Order me up a Mercedes CLS 63 AMG Shooting Brake, or maybe I'll wait for that new Alfa Stelvio with the 2.9 twin turbo... plus its hansom for a pocket SUV |
Generalist but true. Only time I agreed with Clarkson was when he moved his BMW drivers are cocks to Audi drivers are cocks.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Hired a Merc GLE 350 from Paris CDG last year with winter tyres to drive to Samoens as was combining the holiday with a visit to see my brother who lives in Paris. Was frankly one of the least stressful drives I've ever had; cruise control and radar, good navigation and live traffic meant I just had to point it in the right direction. Didn't have to fill up on the journey there and only only the outskirts of Paris on the way back. Sure, it wasn't exactly sporty in the short sections of mountain roads but then Samoens is really easy to get to in that respect being just off the motorway.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Re-mapped Skoda Octavia (is the right answer)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Why stop AT the piste? 
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@dredgey, haha, I saw these photos yesterday , cool car.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Years ago we used to stay in Tignes with Mrs Ski's sister and family. They would drive down, at supersonic speed in an MG ZTT estate. They'd arrive at the dam below Tignes 2 hours before us in our sloooooooow non-turbo diesel Berlingo. Then it would take them an hour or so to put chains on, and them two hours to empty the car. We'd arrive, chains on in 5 - maybe 10 mins, and unpack 20. -- so who really got to the alps first ? The Berlingo was so slow uphill I would have HGVs overtaking me in the Vehicules Lent lane 
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Any Belgian in a luxury German car, any Frenchman in a work van
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@cstreat, that's a good point...
We had a humorous hour as we progressed north past Dijon on the A31 - huge Belgian 4wd spotting.
Looking back out of the car and speculating ... it's coming fast ...maybe 145 kph ... it's big, and it's a fwd
And then as it hammered past...
Yep, Belgian.
Right ... another one ... big, fast, fwd...
Belgian.
Right ... another one ... German? Nope. Belgian.
Repeat ad nauseam.
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