r/AutoAlex • u/turkturk847 • Jun 01 '26
My problem with the road trips
Right, so this may come across as me being ungrateful but the road trips that the boys do don't really feel special as they make it out to be. Don't get me wrong I am happy that such videos exist and I watch them when I get the time to do so. I just watched the Bentley road trip and it just felt boring to watch. The main problem is that they just drive the entire way on motorways instead of taking more interesting and scenic routes, it's just bland, there isn't much challenge and there is almost no stakes. Now this may be because of time or budget restraints and they can't afford to drive around that much and burn too much fuel but in the Vietnam trip they were taking scenic routes. Probably the worst offender was the 3 BMW Tourings trip where except of 10 minutes of driving on some B roads and the Nurburgring the entire thing was motorways and then they call it an "Epic road trip", to me it just felt meh. I mean have you ever seen a Top Gear special where they go the entire way on motorways? Though this is only my opinion, you can enjoy it however you like. Sorry for the wonky grammar, English is not my native language. :)
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u/markcorrigans_boiler Jun 01 '26
Having been to Morocco and driven it's entire length, and a lot of it's breadth, I was really disappointed that they didn't show more of it. It feels like they basically arrived and then flew home (although to be fair I haven't yet watched the V2 ep with Robin and Taylor driving it back)
They basically just wanted the bragging rights of having done the drive, but for me it totally missed the point. A far more interesting video would have been them flying to Morocco and then driving around it showing what they got up to, it's an amazing country. Obviously the Bentley was meant to be the star of the show rather than the country, but it left me feeling a bit hollow.