Scenic Rush

[iamsuperdan]

If you're ever in Vancouver, BC I highly recommend this.

 

Scenic Rush is where you spend a full day, driving high end sportscars up the Sea To Sky Highway between Vancouver at Whistler.

I did this yesterday, and had a blast.

Met up at 9:30, signed in, and checked out the cars for the day.

Immediately discovered that there is absolutely no way I can drive the Corvette Z06 convertible. I knew it would be too msall, but I tried anyway. No matter how I adjust the seat, I could bot get to the point where I could actually use the windshield. And my knees were next to the steering wheel. Jammed in there like a clown car. Which is ridiculous. It's a big car, why they designed it with a wee little interior, I'll never understand.

Quick safety meeting and we were off.

 

First car for me was the Ferrari 458. Visual wow factor is off the charts for this one. I fit, but not comfortably. Had to slouch a little. An inch of headroom, two inches in length, that's all I need. The car is only a year and a half old, but I was surpised and how worn out it is. Interior window switch fell off, trim around the various knobs and controls are worn off, leather coming unstitched on the dashboard. The car is a blast to drive, and I think on a track it would really shine, but on road it was twitchy and does not inspire confiendence. Every bump in the road reverberates through the car, and upsets the handling. Not something I would want to spend more time in.

 

Second car was the Audi R8. Shocked at how much I enjoyed this car. Definitely not the visual kick of some of these things, but wow. Beautiful to look at, super comfortable, and totally at home. Eats up twisty roads and feels good doing it. Very, very fast, with handling for days, and made some amazing noises. I loved this car. Want one. But with a manual transmission.

Quick lunch break at the Nicklaus Ranch golf course, a wander around Whistler, then back in the cars.

 

Car # 3 was a 2010 Lamborghini Gallardo. You know, if the Italians would design their cars for tall guys, they would sell more of them. Again, an extra inch of headroom and a couple of inches of legroom would make this much  more enjoyable. As it is, I mostly fit, and thsi car was awesome. So much fun to drive. Sticks to the road, makes better noises than all of the other cars, and in lime green pearl, the wow factor was off the charts. And it was my son's fav of the bunch.

 

Last car of the day was the Porsche Cayman GT4. Want. Want. Want. This was by far my fav car by a long shot. Not the fastest car here, but it keeps up. More importantly, it was the most fun. So tossable in the corners. And it was the only car with a manual transmission. Just peferfection in every way. If I had this kind of money, easily the car I would buy.

 

Still need to upload some more pics.

 

The only downside, our flight got home at 1:30am, ad I am borderline comatose at work this morning. Ah well, was worth it. 

 

[Scalper]

cool.. great pics

[Badluck 13]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww MAN!!!!  Looks like a great time and your son looks so at home in the Gallardo !!

 

[89AKurt]

Looks like the ultimate vacation!  Awesome photos to go with the road test.  If I won the lottery (if I bothered playing it), would test before committing.  Interesting about how small the Corvette is.  The Porsche would be the best all around daily driver, and the Audi must have been sweet.  I love the Lamborghini, but seems to suffer the same room issue, that's why I will never own a Countach (my excuse and sticking with it).

I have considered the track experience in Las Vegas, where it costs about $100 per lap.

[cobraman]

Looks like a fun time !

[iamsuperdan]

Got my other camera downloaded, so here';s a few more pics.

If you want to see how truly tiny a new COrvette Z06 is, look no further. I am 6'6" and 250lb.

 

 

Here is the lunch stop. I don't golf, but I'd be quite content to just hang out here.

 

 

The support vehicle. Everyone was surprised at how well a V6 Grand Cherokee handled a group of exotics. Was never too far behind.

[iamsuperdan]

Found something interesting in my Twitter feed today.

 

Classify this as "oops!"

 

 

Yup! That is the green Gallardo posted above! Happened earlier today.

With all of the restrictions and rules and instruction you get, and the fact that there are lead and trailing support vehicles, I really wonder how this guy got things so wrong. That car is incredibly stable at speed. Had it been the Ferrari, I wouldn't be that surprised.

I had a good chat with the owners while I was there, as there are some business opportunities my company can assist with. He was mentioning their insurance situation. The Ferrari runs them just under $100k CDN per year to insurance. The Lambo and other cars are all under $190k CDN, so they are only about $40k CDN per year to insure. The Lambo and Ferrari require dashcam and interior cams in order to be insured. That means they have full dashcam footage of this incident. Would be interesting to see that.