Jaguar Project 7 road-trip to S.France via Le Mans & great roads. Plus retrofit Carplay review
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2022
- Taking my 2015 Jaguar F-Type Project 7 to the S.France on some of my favourite roads plus a visit to the Le Mans Circuit Museum along the way. Before we left, I also updated the P7 by fitting an Incore Infotainment unit to the car as I wanted to see how good these units actually are.
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Love these trips....whetting the appetite as this time next week we will be driving all the way down from London to the south of France, via the A75 (1200kms) for the summer holidays! That motorway is the most beautiful in Europe….millau is great! If you travel on a Sunday, there are no lorries on the road. Calais, Rouen, Chartres, Clement Ferrand to Beziers is our way, some of those autoroutes are free, the A7 travelling east of Paris is busy and expensive.
Sounds wonderful. A bit jealous. 🤭
*Clermont-Ferrand in case someone wants to go the same way! 😅
I've done the route before many years ago and the bit over the Massif Central and Clermont Ferrand was interesting- the sense of being at quite a high altitude but relatively flat on the plateau very memorable.
@@Peregrine-qp4fq yep for some of the Auvergne the motorway is at 1000m above sea level.
Yes and toll free
I love Harry road trips with his invisible wife.
She probably has better curves than the Jag!
@@johnnewman3316 🤔
we would all love one of them..
This doesn't fit Harry's Code.
Her in doors, as Arthur Daley would put it .
Big thanks to the missus for putting up with all this and letting us enjoy the journey too.
I now prefer Harry going to the South of France in a Project 7 in stead of going there myself
Love a Harry's garage road trip video. A big thanks to Mrs.M as well for filming them, truly an unsung hero in the production of these great videos.
I was thinking the same thing! LOL! Nerves of steel handling Harry's hard driving and devotion for being dropped off on the side of the road to film drive pasts. Huzzah to Mrs. Metcalfe!
Sundays are just fantastic when a Harry video drops . No click bait , no hype just Harry enjoying life and being factual .
his road trips are the best on utube
Paper maps are brilliant for getting a birds eye view of what to look for, since electronic maps don't usually show nearly enough detail zoomed out. Lovely trip as always! Thank you for bringing us along.
Yes I'm a pretty geeky sort of chap and love my tech, but I have a huge collection of proper maps some going back to 1909. I am an OS fan but the IGN and Michelin Maps are pretty good, particularly if your covering big distances.
Sat Nav is fine for guiding you to where you're going...Paper maps are awesome for looking at and seeing roads, attractions etc..or just throwing a random pin at and deciding what destination you're putting in the sat-nav !!
Harry Metcalfe living the dream with good friends, a great wife, and memorable road trips. Thanks for taking us along.
As someone who lives in Perth Western Australia. Also known as the most isolated capital city in the world.
Can only dream about going for drives like this.. In the same distance, I would be in the middle of the outback looking at red dirt.
The road, scenery & the history of Europe is just something stunning to see
i live in Newcastle, NSW - it’s not much different here!
You just can’t beat the Michelin road maps! I sometimes find myself just opening them up to study them when I’m in my living room instead of turning on the tv! … haha
Same here. It's exciting to build possibilities!
Me too!
Well, as I have stated today, Harry first recommended it to me in one of his videos. It was so much better than Google maps. Maybe he has gone over to the dark side :) I can guarantee, he will be back.
Harry is and has always been a class act. Twenty seven minutes just went by and I was sorry the video ended. Cars, bikes, Harry's got it all!
The Millau bridge is amazing. The shot of how spindly the towers look with the road deck up in the sky is just mind boggling.
I went to Millau with my sceptical family because of Top Gear, and they were completely won over by the beauty of the bridge and the area around it. An interesting detail: There are no structural or topographical reasons for the curve of the bridge: It´s pure aesthetics: Foster wantetd you to see all the pillars as you go over it... And it´s magical.
@Will Harris I sort of agree, but the other bridges the engineer has been involved with are not nearly as beautiful. Here he is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Virlogeux
The myriad of things one can learn from a single video by Mr.Metcalfe is just something else. Absolutely brilliant.
What a life this chap and family have..Another amazing episode .
I remember during the mid 1970`s on a package tour,Page & Moy to the Monaco Grand Prix. Thinking on the coach with other travellers how nice it would be doing the trip in an E type job or similar..
Never happened for me but Bon Chance to them for getting there in life.
I did a similar route from Caan , via Le Mans , down to a place called Montreal ( no not Canada! ! ) near Carcassonne . It was year 2000 , on holiday with my family in Alfa Romeo 75 3litre . Drove all the way down . We did not see the Viaduct on the way there, but took an alternative route back, drove under it through a deep valley. Beautiful scenery down there . High quality road surfaces, whether on main roads or going up mountains on side roads. Happy days . Thanks for bringing back the memories , if unintentionally!
Millau viaduct got built from 2001
@@etbadaboum Maybe they were on holiday for more than a year? 😀😀😀
Now you have said that, maybe not the very same bridge. I remember on the way down , we came off some Autoroute near Souillac , and they were in the process of extending the route down to Cahors, so we had to take the N9 standard road only to encounter a horrific bottle neck of traffic-held us up possibly hour or more, in scorching heat too. So on return wanted to avoid all that and took minor roads, coming across this incredible gorge with river below, and this bridge so high up above our road and river running alongside, quite breathtaking. I’ve been looking at my original 1997 Michelin Europe map that I took with me at the time, to try and retrace my route back! No CarPlay , Tom Tom , Co -pilot , sat nav system used back then !
Did 2000 miles in my F Type through France a month ago, Harry, so this little video bought back some great memories. Don’t stop filming your road trips 😁
Normal people: Petrol is expensive, we will have to drive less.
Jag owners: Sorry kids, bread and water for dinner again. The Jag is thirsty.
Nah, not here @@iainbagnall4825 , more petrol money falls out of Metcalfe's pyjamas in the morning, than you or I could siphon into our cars' tanks, in a month.
I think the sprogs will always have plenty of artisan foodstuffs from the farmers markets.
Thank god for these videos, its an escape from the real world and we all need that now.
Harrys a legend for sharing these great experiences.
I would love to be a fly on the wall when Harry negotiates with Mrs. M on the drive by camera shots, what handbag/dresses he has to buy.
Fantastic!
We have a trip planned to Millau and the Aveyron region as soon as harvest is over here in the Saskatchewan Prairies.
Visits to France have always been basically to family - and rushed - but family are now no longer with us. I’m now 70 so our trip this time will be sort of open ended and much more leisurely.
All I need is for a good crop and prices to hold where they are, then I will push the boat out and hire a decent car, not the usual mid range hatchback thing. Flying into Toulouse will also be a first for us.
Keep the videos coming - on both cars and farming.
My appetite is well and truly whetted for our trip, 5 years since our last one.
That was great! My missus thought it was a holiday program😀
I would happily find all of Harry’s holidays just for the content it brings.
Still the best motoring journalist of the RUclips era.
Felicidades Sr.Metcalfe y su Sra invisible detrás de cámaras por estas fabulosas vistas y mostrar sus paseos por Europa y conducir como debe de ser sus joyas automotrices de verdad un privilegio ver su contenido de su canal .,simplemente espectacular great job Herry
Thanks once again,Harry.Always enjoyable to watch your road trips!
The Millau viaduct was on our list pre-covid and finally two years later we made it and to the Tarn gorge, great road up to Point Sublime, fantastic destinations 😎
The shots from under the viaduct are amazing.
Thank you Harry.
These roadtrip videos are always enjoyable to watch. Thanks for uploading.
Was really nice to see the Gorges du Tarn, Used to live there from the age of 8 to 28. Memories....
Just love these trips, paper maps and all! Brilliant content 👌
Love watching your road-trips and what a beautiful vintage GMT you're wearing!
Thank you Harry for taking me to my dream road trips. Have a lot of safe miles and kilometers on the continent.
Every time I check off something on the travel bucket list. Something new gets added. Thanks Harry.
Your quiet, studious passion is always a joy to engage with.
I do a lot of WWI battlefield trips from the coast down to Switzerland. I always enjoying driving over the Vosges and staying in Colmar near to the Swiss and German borders. One of my favourite drives was from the German speaking area in Switzerland, down through the Italian speaking area and then into Italy. Some lovely roads and lots of lakes and tunnels.
We do trips down to Tuscany once a year if allowed and we often stop in Colmar such a beautiful town, 👍
@@bigun635 It is a lovely place and the villages around it
The most interesting Jaguar in a long time. Thanks Harry.
Thanks for taking us along Harry! What a treat. The Cévennes and gorges of the Tarn are a sublime escape which we've been sadly unable to reach this year, so the chance to take even this brief tour with you is a delicious reminder. Très bon!
Love all your videos Harry, especially these road trips ones. (You sure enhanced the beautiful sounds through those roads. 😁)
Thank you Mr M for another great road trip, I love watching them. That's something positive that came out of covid, I started watching and enjoying your chanel !
Thanks Harry for sharing your trip with us. A really enjoyable video.
Harry!!! We just love your films especially the road trips. But this one brought back happy memories of driving those amazing routes through the gorges and mountains around Milau in the early 1990s before the bridge was built, in my Peugeot 205 GTi . Perfect car for those twisting routes through the mountains. Happy days!! Thanks for taking us with you!! All the best😁❤ Lee and Caroline
Always love these trips Harry, the project 7 makes it even more special! Cheers!
Thanks for bringing us along for the trip - spectacular
Fantastic video, scenery is amazing, but the sound of the Project 7 engine is off the scale AWESOME 🇬🇧❗️😊 Thank you,Harry 👏👏👏❗️
Great video. Did these very roads years ago in my 306 GTI-6 - still the mine and the wife's favourite road trip ever!
I was impressed by the Millau Viaduct , too ... but even more by the Pont du Gard Aqueduct which was not far away from your route. Gave me a real impression of what Romans were capable of . The bridge is still standing after 2000 years ... At sunset possibly one of the most beautiful bridges I've ever seen .
What was really fascinating was watching the construction of the viaduct. Brilliant stuff.
Listening to Harry and this car - both never get old
Always love these road trip videos 😎🙏🏴
Fantastic, safe, fun lap. She’s a keeper for sure.🚗
Love the road trips and chapeau to Mrs M for the filming
Love this: The fast-slow-fast pace, mixing some fun, spirited driving with taking in some spectacular sights, including the Millau Viaduct, which had me scurrying to Wikipedia for a deeper dive (and catch up with the rest of Foster's work, much of which I knew of, some of which I didn't). Sorry to hear your plans with the Lotus fell through, but it looks (and sounds!) like the Jag largely made up for it.
Harry, great tours through scenic routes. Thank you.
what an awesome week. and to have this be part of the cherry on top is even better.
I love your trip videos also. Thank you for the Apple CarPlay review. I’ve been considering adding it to an older Jaguar myself and your comments are very helpful.
What a beautiful area to drive through. The scenery and that bridge are absolutely stunning. I'm now seriously considering taking my Triumph on a similar trip in this area for my next holiday.
Years ago, we saw a British Classic Car club doing a tour through the Loire Valley. Traveling with such a group could add to the experience.
Really enjoyed this Harry, thanks very much for allowing us in.
Thanks much to your support crew including the long suffering Mrs M.
A la santé 🥂
What a brilliant road trip. Wife and I rode our motorbikes through the Gorge du Tarn in 2019. The road follows the river with cliffs towering either side. Much better than actually going over the bridge.
Hey Harry, I had a similar system fitted to my BMW i3 and love it! It's definitely not perfect and has its glitches once in a while, but overall super glad such a system exists. Looks great in your car, and I'm glad you included it in the video.
Thanks for putting me on to this retrofit CarPlay kit, Harry! I’ve just installed it in my 2010 L320 RRS and couldn’t be happier. Love the channel.
2019, I proposed to my wife on an French circular road trip from Caen, Tours, Dordogne (Bergerac, the proposal), Med Coast at Beziers, Toulon, Cannes, Nice, Italy (via your autostrada) then back to do Route Napoleon and home. All in our V6S FType. Showing my wife this tonight made her evening and mine. Great memories. She also does the filming. Thanks Harry.
Thanks Harry, love your road trip videos.
Thanks Harry, love that you enjoyed the French roads. Another great video!
absolutely fantastic video and amazed at the mpg you managed with the Project 7
That’s right, Harry. Show us how it’s done. A life well lived. Simply brilliant.
When we did the same thing pre Covid I was proudly telling French staff in hotels en route we were going to see the Meal-ow viaduct and nobody had a clue what I was talking about. When I discovered it’s called Mee-oh I realised why! Great to see you made it to that fantastic location Harry it really is spectacular, thank you.
We had many enjoyable trips around the Gorges Du Verdon which is about an hour and a half north of Saint-Tropez (and due north of Draguignan). The road snakes around the clear blue glacial water in the lake and it's magical. It's worth considering which way round to drive it though, depending on if you are driving a right-hand or left-hand drive car! Thanks again for the great content Harry.
Did that area (D907) in southern France a few months ago on a road trip with my son. France has some great driving roads…thoroughly enjoyed the trip…and this video!
I love paper maps and then adding to them with the route taken and anything worth noting on the way. Great to look at years later.
Vive la France! We did those kinds of rural French roads a few times, mostly in the pre-GPS era. Even with Michelin paper maps at a detailed level, I turned a bit early and ended in an orchard and I turned a bit late on another road trip and ended in a wheat field. Just relatively pleasant memories now. THANK YOU for reminding us what la France Profound is!
Just found this video after watching your 2022 round up episode. Don’t fall into the RUclips algorithm trap Harry, most of your content pops up on my Home Screen to watch but this one didn’t! Love this sort of content, especially in the depths of winter contemplating summer road trips for the summer ahead.
Keep up the great work, look forward to more content like this in 2023
I've driven all of these roads on the way down to my villa in Spain over many years, and ironically spent most of 2019 working near the circuit Paul Ricard very close to the end destination. It's a beautiful part of the world. Never been lucky enough to own a car like this but I enjoy the journey whatever I'm driving. I'm on my way back down again next month in my trusty old Mercedes E wagon...can't wait :)
Harry, many thanks for sharing this road trip video in France. Beautiful scenery, lovely weather & the car's not bad either.
However, the stand out for me was the Millau Viaduct........what a stunning design and I appreciate the unusual view you showed us of the tall, elegant columns.👍👍
Such lovely roads in France.Brought back memories of 25 years ago.Taking my 205 GTI 1.9 on the Night ferry from Newhaven to Dieppe travelling via Rouen ,Le Mans,Tour .through the mountains near St Etienne on to La Lavendu, Bormes along the coast to St Topez in the evening. Hope one day to be able to do again when I retire,so thank you for reminding me of some happy times.
This is brilliant to see you having done the infotainment upgrade as I’ve been toying with the idea for me 2016 F-Pace. Going to place an order. 👍👍
This one and Tyrrell always mops up my time on Sundays
Lovely video as always.Thank you Harry. My wife and I took our 916 series Alfa Spider 2.0 TS through that area 7 years ago on the way back from Bonnieux in Provence.
The hotel we stayed at in Gordes was where the Ferrari Cub of Provence hold their AGM. Our little spider still turned heads !
Absolutely fantastic trip and the roads and scenery were wonderful. Like yourself I also find much of Sir Norman Foster’s architecture amazing and the viaduct in particular inspirational
Thank you Harry, what an epic trip..hope you enjoyed the break..😎🤪
Another fantastic video Harry. We do love a road trip. All the best Vint-tro
I feel I now want to see Harry's Boat trip as well!
Love the tour! Thanks. I've driven over the Millau Viaduct and wish I had taken the time to explore that area. Need to get back there some day.
I've got the kit for my 2018 Jag XE, installed it myself. Works like a charm, serious upgrade to an otherwise outdated infotainment system.
I love this channel and the road trips! It inspired me to take my first trip in my Maserati Granturismo S a few months ago. Buying the GTS was also inspired by Harry's Maserati video. Thank you Harry for this content! 👍🏻
Gorge du Tarn is a real treat. Grandparents used to have a place in Tarn and it really is a lovely part of the world.
Crumbs ... that brought back some memories. Really only one place hadn't changed much since I was there - the Gorges du Tarn. Under somehat different circumstances; I was holidaying with my folks - Mum, Dad and my sister - just over 50 years ago! 😁The overhanging rockface and tunnels were - and clearly still are - amazing. The car I was in at the time .... Austin 1800 'Land crab'. The hydrolastic suspension was brilliant over any bad road surfaces and it carried 4, plus a boot groaning with luggage, in relative comfort. 😀
I’m just back today from an Scotland - south France - Italian riviera - alps and back .
We ended up on the route napoleon not quite the same in a campervan but I still enjoyed it
The hassle passengers are experiencing at airports just now , I think a road trip is the only way to do it !
Outstanding video thanks for the info on the car upgrade and for your amazing travels, I would love to see more videos on the boat 🛥 please 🙏🏼
Thank you, very interesting. Appreciate the tips regarding to in car infotainment upgrades. The use of paper maps is comforting as they are much better suited to providing a contextual idea of where one is and where one needs to go. The Portsmouth route to Caen, or St Malo is worth the trip. Your P7 is superb machine Harry.
My man always delivers with the drive-by shots.
Was just watching the antibes trip again for the 2 nd time...then this pops up! cheers Harry
Great video. I love the road trips. Thanks so much!
The bridge stop was fantastic..!!! Thank you...
Great to see someone else appreciating Foster's exquisite work
Great video as always Harry 👍
Beautiful video Harry. Thank you.
Another great video Harry. Always enjoy the road trip videos the best. Fingers crossed you get the lotus soon. Would love to see some more UK road trip videos as there must be some hidden routes closer to home you could educate us on that are easier to access for those of us more pushed for time. PS since discovering your videos earlier this year you’ve finally persuaded me to part with some cash and buy a 911 which 2 months into owning I am loving. Keep up the good work and don’t worry about your paper maps - we love them also!!
Very much enjoying your road-trip videos!
Yet another excellent road trip!
nice to see the road trips back Harry those French roads look so inviting
13:35 min - What a great hotel!! 👍 Great trip Harry!👌 Love the Euro road-trips. ☺️
I'll never have the opportunity to travel on such roads so thanks for another great video trip away Harry. France is such a beautiful country, not so conjested as our when you get out of the cities and big towns.
Hi Harry, me and some friends did those roads under the viaduct and along the gorge back in 2009 on motorbikes, i was on a fireblade rr8. Watching your video brought back some great memories. I may also look at the upgrade for my f type. Great video thanks.