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I thought the title of this thread was "Greatest Driving Road In or Around Sydney"

I dont see how a awesome driving road automatically implies shenanigans...

You thought right.

If you also thought that the body of the first post of this thread contained the phrase "feeling pumped to unleash some of the car's potential", you'd also think right.

Now either his car's a shitbox and an "unleashing of its potential" isn't going to be particularly fast, or there's going to be shenanigans involved.

Go bells line of road you pansies, much faster, lots better corners, quite senic and theres maccas at the end yo

Bells is alright, but I find its a bit rough. Its still a lot better than Putty, that starts near the same point out of Sydney, which is 200km each way that has like 170km of yawnfest country road and 30km of actually interesting twisties.

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Unleashing a SOME of a car's potential doesnt mean that your behaving irresponsibly... Could mean your taking corners faster then you do when driving to work, enjoying the feeling of some G's on you...

That being said, fully agree that "feeling pumped to unleash some of the car's potential" probably means that something irresponsible will occur....

So when is this awesome putty road cruise going to happen????

i think i should have described it differently... i didnt mean find a good piece of road and become mr race car driver.... just somewhere that can legally allow you to have a bit of fun... driving within the rules on a good road can be enjoyable

Any public road, at the speed limit, is going to be boring in any modern car. The car's limits are going to be so much higher than what the engineers envisioned all those years ago when they came up with the limits, that either the driver or the car has to be defective in order to make it anything but a snoozefest.

In terms of enjoying the scenery I'm really fond of the Royal National Park, heading south from Loftus and following the coast all the way to Thirroul. The RNP has nice trees and other views, the roads are reasonably windy. The only issue is, between the Loftus and Waterfall entrances, the road is really rough and a lot of people bottom out.

When you pop out at Otford you get a great view of the coast from the top of the cliff, and you follow a very tight winding road that hugs the coast. On the way home you can either retrace your route, go up the Bulli Pass and onto the Princes Highway, or angle back via Appin Rd / Mt Keira Rd to the Hume if you live out west.

Mac Pass is about 30 mins south if you turn back on to the Princes Highway at Otford, which means it adds over an hour to your journey home after more twisties. The road itself is spectacular, though.

The Old Pac is OK, but there's only so many trees you can look at.

Putty is boring, unless you like looking at farms. There are some great bits in it, and the last set of twisties north of Howes Valley is the home to my favourite road driving experience ever (under the cover of trees, with a serene babbling stream on one side and a rock wall that echoes engine notes on the other, chasing a Lamborghini Gallardo having its V10 wrung out) but its a 2hr+ drive from Windsor and only 20 mins of it is fun.

Bells is reasonably good, but its also got more long monotonous straights than I'd like. Old Pac and RNP have very few straights so you're not sitting there in top gear on part throttle vegetating because you don't want to drive flat out. However, the run into and out of the Jenolan Caves is amazing (especially the eastern side, which is more open than the narrow hairpin-on-hairpin west side), and you can do Springwood Pass on the way back into Sydney.

+1 for the natio being crap now..

Took my s13 through it a few months back and emerged with my exhaust pretty much hanging off the cat by one stud lol..

Edited by ignuz
So how fast do those things go in 1st gear? :) 2nd?

No idea. I was using 2nd to 3rd gear. My 2nd gear hits the cutout at around 98km/hr, but on the street I don't rev it to the limiter.

Chasing...following. I wasn't trying to overtake him, nor was I wanting to crash into the back of him, so I gave him a decent amount of space. He didn't pull away from me, so he wasn't going that much quicker.

The reputation that Macquarie Pass has, is the reputation it deserves... WOW!

My car was the camera car that accompanied Terry's group last year.

We had to ditch the idea of Kangaroo Valley Rd though - 2 much fog. So we came down Cambewarra Mtn Rd instead.

#2 Old Pacific Hwy finishing up at W. Gosford at La Porchetta Restaurant which is all decked out in NISSAN memorabilia incl. 1991 Touring Car Champ trophy and a couple of race cars. Cnr Manns Rd & Central Coast Hwy.

Others considered are...

Bells Line Of Road - warning: heavily policed from side tracks

Jenolan Caves Road - warning: best done in the morning till noon. Otherwise you have to negotiate busses on this narrow road

Silverdale Rd to the Oaks and M5

Springwood Road Agnes Banks to Hawkesbury Hts - warning: heavily policed along the sweepers

Mitchell's Pass Road

Road to Wiseman's Ferry and then to Mangrove Mtn - warning: lots of driveways, and cars with low front lips can't get on/off the ferry

Others NOT considered for obvious reasons but wished they could are...

Commenara Parkway

Royal National Park - temporarily until there's enough budget $ to fix the thing up

Cahill Expressway & Sydney Harbour Bridge LOL

Bayswater Road/New South Head Road

Boundary Road from Chatswood thru Roseville, Killarney Hts to Brookvale

The loop around Kingsford Smith Airport Departures and drop off parcels there quickly without getting fined!!!

Edited by Matty_GT-R33

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