Motorhead Ping.
The best vehicle I ever owned was a 65 Olds, Delta 88. 425 Rocket V-8, 360 HP and I believe it was very conservatively rated.
My 1993 Harley Davidson FXR, with two saddlebags and my knapsack strapped to the sissy bar which provided me with a nice backrest.
Skyline Drive, Dragon’s Tail, Blue Ridge, and the Appalachians.
It doesn’t get any better than that!
(I still ride, though I am now a senior citizen and a widow)
A few years at, I too a new job 600 miles away. Did countless weekend trips home in the 8 months it took to we our house. I bought a 2006 Pontiac Vibe in 2009. It had 145,000 miles and a 5 speed.
It now has 280,000 miles and is still fun to drive.
Best road trip vehicle I’ve ever had is the F-150 I’m driving right now. It’s comfortable, and with a cap on back I can load it up with everything I need for a month on the road. A good air mattress makes for easy and comfortable camping on the road, too.
75’ Cadillac coupe deville was great until you had to park.
Probably many here will dredge up their favorite old 50’s cruiser or muscle car. My road car of choice is what I drive now: an Audi S 7 with modified ECU. Faster than most any affordable car, superb handling, 24 MPG and goes well in any weather. The old cars are nice to look at but terrible on the road compared to this car.
If it’s primarily interstate you can’t go wrong with nice cushy big American iron, Lincoln did it quite well from the early 70’s through the 80’s at least. I can still smell that vaguely sweet scent of a Lincoln leather interior. Just float on down the highway serenely at no more than 15 over and watch the scenery pass by your windows.
If it’s not primarily interstate it depends upon the length of the trip. Some of the most entertaining cars are a little punishing over the long haul.
Our one RV trip. Far better than sleeping in the MGB in the old days. We were heading for Las Vegas for a broadcasters convention and I was thrilled. We’d spent months fitting out the perfect RV and we’d had one failure when husband attached the car to the back of the RV in a parking lot, stared at them both, and turned around and drove home. But THIS TIME we were going to really travel in it.
When he got off the highway in St Louis I didn’t believe him when he said that he couldn’t cross the river. I should have. We spent a month on the east side of that bridge watching the crops grow. Took weeks for us to drive home at 30mph, with me in the detached car protecting the RV from the traffic zooming around us. And I loved every minute of the trip! The RV is currently sitting in the driveway on flat tires acting as an extra room for the house.
On the other hand, I could have driven the MGB. This was WAY too big for me.
A first year Audi Fox over old Wolf Creek Pass with 6’’ of packed snow. A Porsche 914 the first month they were out on a road trip to San Diego from KC. A Cadillac Seville STS from Atlanta to KC with the object of never dropping below 90. Man, I have a long list and I am just getting started.
any big station wagon
I hope the vehicle I am driving now.. a 2003 Suburban with all the towing goodies, and the “level 3 luxury” which is basically Escalade interior bits.
Autoride suspension, all freshened. I hope to be towing a camper this time.
But my most active car was my 91 Civic hatch. I drove that around the country. My favorite cross-country trip was in my 87 CRX.
I just did a few thousand mile trip in my 04 BMW 2 door. For an autobahn car, it wasn’t great.
And it’s so delicate that I was constantly worried about every little rattle and ping. It was unnerving and I had no fun doing it.
My last road trip was 4000 miles across the Western US in a Mustang Eco-Boost 4; averaged over 30mpg and cruised at 80-85. After replacing original el cheap tires with decent rubber, it rode and handled well. Light tint on side/rear windows plus a dark tint band at the top of the windshield really helped glare and heat buildup.
1970 Dodge SuperBee. 383 Magnum. Auto. Bench front seat.
OD Green with black stripes.
Going 125 MPH on 2-lane though the hills of western Iowa.
I’m only 17. County Sheriff straight ahead passes by, turns on cherries and turns around.
I keep in throttle and head for home. Safe. Yeah. Right.
Next day , dad asks me if I had anything happen the night before.
Me: No.
“That’s funny”, he says, “cause Officer” (I can’t remember his name), says a car just like yours ripped down highway 6.”
“Give me the keys...”
...2 weeks later. I got them back. And after a lot of hard labor.
2001 Chrysler Town an Country.
BMW r1200 GS adventure motorcycle.
8,821 miles. There and back.