Just found out about the channel, loving the vibes, videos and just you in general. I love it how you enjoy a drive not going past 65mph and making me enjoy too. I love this channel and I will definitely keep up with the new vides you drop for quite some time. Please never think about changing the vibes because this is what true car entutiashim is all about in my opinion!
I'm about to get my full license and my plan was to send it everywhere. This guy is so mature and made me realised you can still have fun in a car without putting lives at risk. I literally love this channel
What you just said encapsulates my whole idea behind driving. If you can find a road where the speed limit is a challenge then you can safely and legally have so much fun!
The Michelin route planner app has a really good setting for a 'scenic' route to where you are going. The only issue is app as a navigation tool is sub par at best.
Number 1 tip, move to Scotland. I'm joking of course but my daily drive to work at 5am is in-between 2 small Scottish towns and I swear its made of only satisfying corners, a descending/ascending mile long straight and glorious scenic mountains. Done this 20 minute drive for over a year now and it's always fun, no matter if I'm in an absolute lemon or something more sporty.
Huge priority for me at the moment is to get my life to a situation where I can move out of London. I'm eyeing up either the Scottish Highlands or north Wales. God there are some good driving roads in the UK
Sometimes when I'm bored i'll go out into the nearby villages and turn off on any road that looks appealing that I never knew existed and go from there lol
So true! This is exactly how I started. I just would get frustrated sometimes when I spent a morning excited for a drive but couldn't find a good road.
Hi Mick, I just found your channel and I really like it: I'm 21, I live in Italy and I drive a little Twingo 1 from 2005 (it's my mum's car) which I enjoy driving fast on some country roads even if it only has 58 hp . Watching you enjoy your driving as I do really puts me in a good mood (my thanks are also for the Megane RS, I think I became a kind of a Renault fanboy)
Thanks mate! I had a 2009 twingo GT a long time ago - extreme blue, 100bhp 1.2 with a little turbo. I loved that little thing, drove it all over the country because that's all I had :D I'm not actually a Renault fanboy, I promise... but I seem to keep buying them
@@MickDrivesCars mine is not a GT, it's the first series of the Twingo and I would love to swap it with the GT's engine but I don't have a job and money to do it
I drove to and from Stansted Airport on back roads from Cambridge (avoiding the A14) and I have to say it is honestly such a fun drive to do. Roads are wide for the most part, with "jumps" which make you feel weightless every now and then and plenty of fun corners. Looking forward to the next time I travel there haha
Hi Mick, Hatfield Heath to Takeley. To Stansted Airport. Broxted onto Thaxted. All on my doorstep Great roads. Can I suggest dont turn right at MoleHill green carry on to Elsenham at the top of the hill turn right. That is a longer stretch of the B1051 into Thaxted. As you turn right in Thaxted heading to Great Dunmow turn left just past petrol station onto Bardfield road then head to Finchingfield. then follow signs for Great Dunmow.
Thank you so much! My goal when I started making videos was for my passion to shine through above everything else. Glad to hear it's working! Share with me mate, what car are you longing for?
Some of the best roads I've found to drive on in the South/South East: A23 to/from Brighton, nice three lane road that goes on for mile after mile, dips and mounds, good easy road to drive on but no real "fun" to it and there aren't any challenging bends or corners as it's a 70mph road. A259 in Romney Marsh, towards St Mary's Bay, single carriageway with a 60mph limit, just after the right hand turn down towards Lydd airport there is a sharp left hand bend, followed immediately by a right hand one as you then enter a 30 zone. It's only a short bit of road probably just over a mile or so long but it's a fun road. You can follow that road all the way up into Dymchurch and then up into Hythe and onto another fun road, the A261 Hythe road, that's a little over a mile long and it's a 60 but it's quite narrow and twisty with a few sudden sharp left/right turns. As you then get to the junction turn right onto A20 Ashford Road and that's another fun road down to the A20 roundabout, which you can then use to join the M20 back towards London. The A21 from the Tunbridge wells junction where about a mile or so further up at the roundabout it goes from 2 lanes into a single carriageway with a 60mph limit, it then fluctuates a lot as it passes through numerous towns before you eventually hit another long stretch of national speed limit before Sedlescombe, where it goes back to 50. It's a good fun drive down to Hastings although at some parts it is a single lane with a lot of solid white lines or hatched markings, and you'll often find yourself stuck behind a lorry or someone doing 30 and be unable to pass them for some time due to the road markings and the frequency of bends. Down in Uckfield there's a lot of single carriageway and dual carriageway, with a LOT of roundabouts, one at the end of each road which then joins another fast road, it's not quite as challenging or fun as there aren't any real bends, with the most difficult bit being the roundabouts (which a lot of have severe potholes across the whole of so your car can easily lose grip), but none the less it's a fun road still, follow that road all the way down to the Co-op at Polegate services and you can go around the roundabout and do the entire journey in reverse. I've driven down to Bognor Regis before on a few occasions, a decent 75 mile or so trip each way from my house (just inside the M25) and there's a lot of fun roads down that way too. The A12 from London up to Chelmsford I've driven on a few times, not been that way for a few years now but I recall it was good fun to drive down, equally the A3 from London to Guildford I always enjoy too. In the past I've also found the route A2 -> M2 all the way down to Margate where I used to work years ago was quite fun, a lot of it is motorways and dual carriageways, but there's some fun single carriageway roads as you get nearer to Ramsgate and Margate, a lot of them though have a 50mph limit and are frequently enforced by mobile speed camera vans or have average speed cameras.
This has my whole being aching for a drive … but both my cars are down right now and finances been too tight to get them up and running 😭 new subscriber & Living vicariously through channels like your own so please keep on keepin on !
People who say they 'hate driving' just don't get it do they. They have never really driven have they. Me & my little Cooper Mpi love driving, oh them glorious English country roads 💚🇬🇧.
Great video mate, thanks for the headsup on the best biking roads website. Very very awesome to see your mentality to enjoying cars and respecting the small villages, it's rare to see another Londoner take the same view! See you on a good driving road soon hopefully
I used to drive the A272 from Winchester to Petersfield in my Caterham 7 in my 20s. 3 kids later and a busy life, I suddenly became 49, and I've forgotten the fun of a good road, just for the hell of it, burning fuel. F it, tomorrow I'm going to take my Cupra 300 there, just for the drive!
@Mick Drives Cars ended up having to take the kids to Splashdown! Got some a/l this week. I may try a blast then, when no one's nagging me. I used to organise car meets with the Pistonheads lot along that route back in the early 2000s. Maybe a local meet should be organised. Virginia Waters was another PH meeting stop.
Holy sh*t. I'm from India and those scenic roads and that pinkish sky felt like in-game graphics(in India you'll find turns every 100mts, not the best experience). Def gonna try that site.
If you ever come to America and wanna drive similar roads, go pretty much anywhere in Kentucky, good quality roads, hardly any straight sections, narrow usually, and to top it off it’s usually cloudy or rainy there fairly frequently 😂
Right in front of my house (in italy) there is a 8km road that is completely empty at night and it's straight forward, no curves or anything. I'm going to get familiarity with my first car on this road when I'll get the driving licence. Also don't worry, I take safety too seriously, so I won't act like those young people like me that go crazy when they get their first car, I self learnt how to be resposible and not cause troube to both my parents and the strangers.
White with a Black cross is the National Speed Limit - on a B-Road, it's 60mph limit, sometimes is a bit sketch going 60mph, especially with cyclists due to going nearly blind. Great fun tho
The national limit sign is 60 on a single carriageway and 70 on a dual carriageway 👍 All of our speed cameras also have a 10% leeway so realistically the speed limit of that road is 66mph. A nice challenge when there are super tight, twisty corners 👌
Yes unlike the Isle of Man the sign in the UK is for national speed limit. Just be careful of the dual carriageway, it's till 60mph unless there is a physical divide or grass between the lanes. Two lanes divided by paint is 60mph@@MickDrivesCars
@@MickDrivesCars yeah RUclips recommended me your driving fast video this week, which immediately got me interested in your channel. I was very surprised when I saw the low sub count. You have the quality of someone with 100x the sub count
Just came across this now, great video👍🏻 but after watching it all, it wasn’t really clear which actual road/route you wete driving on. Zooming in to your map at the start of your drive was very grainy …i’ve also noted down the website at the beginning. You mentioned the M11 and Feathers Hill from London, so I suppose that’s the route?
great vid, im on border of north london/hertfordshire, think i need get out weekends on some of these roads local/not far from me as think just help with my mental health, mostly sat indoors. only time i go away driving is with mates in car group but everyone lives far away and we only meet few times a year due to commitments/distance. dont suppose you got a copy of this route?
Dude you got to help me lol I've moved to Hamburg in germany, from North yorkshire UK and the roads here..... Please find me something cool to drive in my FD
Not really, we're quite lucky because we have a 60mph limit on these roads. Most of the time it's a challenge to even do 60. If I go slightly over at times it's no drama.
I live in germany and I have the "Pfälzer Wald" (palatinate forest) 25km away from me. Just looking at these streets from google maps will get you ecxited to go for a ride. I drive there every few weeks and it's always really fun and I see so many sports cars doing the same thing. These curvy uphill and downhill streets really feel like a rollercoaster without tracks. I can really recommend the spot.
Haha really easy to! I have a theory of taking it easy on the straights, up to and around the speed limit, but then going pretty hard in the corners which is more enjoyable for me. Bonus is I don't loose my licence!
So you seen out tight winding roads you know cyclists come to, and then drive like an idiot along them? Wtaf? I hope you don’t kill someone on a bike, but I hope they catch up with you at some point..
First of all, bestbikingroads is for motorcyclists, of which I am one. The creator of the site left a comment on this video thanking me. I'm also a cyclist, I have a gravel bike and a road bike. I try at all points to give as much room to cyclists as possible because I know how scary it is when someone doesn't. I did not egregiously speed or drive dangerously. I enjoyed my car within reason and kept it responsible the entire time.
Just found out about the channel, loving the vibes, videos and just you in general. I love it how you enjoy a drive not going past 65mph and making me enjoy too. I love this channel and I will definitely keep up with the new vides you drop for quite some time. Please never think about changing the vibes because this is what true car entutiashim is all about in my opinion!
Thank you so much mate! I started this channel because I didn't have an outlet for my passion. I'm glad I can share it in a way you can enjoy 😍
I'm about to get my full license and my plan was to send it everywhere. This guy is so mature and made me realised you can still have fun in a car without putting lives at risk. I literally love this channel
Damn, high praise! Thank you mate - hopefully I can keep living up to this 😂
Yea, and you actually learn from this guy you can have so much fun driving slow…no joke
I love the excitement you seem to get all while not driving like a complete idiot. Shows you don't need to do 120kph down a 60 zone to have fun.
What you just said encapsulates my whole idea behind driving.
If you can find a road where the speed limit is a challenge then you can safely and legally have so much fun!
The Michelin route planner app has a really good setting for a 'scenic' route to where you are going. The only issue is app as a navigation tool is sub par at best.
Really good shout, I've never used it before but I'll make sure to give it a try!
@Mick Drives Cars I tried it yesterday it's woefully bad!
Number 1 tip, move to Scotland. I'm joking of course but my daily drive to work at 5am is in-between 2 small Scottish towns and I swear its made of only satisfying corners, a descending/ascending mile long straight and glorious scenic mountains. Done this 20 minute drive for over a year now and it's always fun, no matter if I'm in an absolute lemon or something more sporty.
Huge priority for me at the moment is to get my life to a situation where I can move out of London.
I'm eyeing up either the Scottish Highlands or north Wales.
God there are some good driving roads in the UK
Count me in
@@MickDrivesCarssouth wales is worth a try too, Brecon Beacons 👌🏻
Hey Mick, Great video and thanks a lot for giving my project some visibility. Keep up the good work. David
No way!! Thanks so much for the comment! You're an absolute legend I've been using the site for years ♥️
Sometimes when I'm bored i'll go out into the nearby villages and turn off on any road that looks appealing that I never knew existed and go from there lol
So true! This is exactly how I started. I just would get frustrated sometimes when I spent a morning excited for a drive but couldn't find a good road.
Your excitement as that road unfolded, I’m the same exact way, verbally expressing out loud (to no one else in the car) “Look at this road, yes!”
This mans passion for driving and roads 🥹🙏🏽
Glad it comes through on video :)
Great videos man, you really give me the urgency to go out and drive
Thanks a lot! I do the same to myself! I record the video then when I'm watching I just want to get behind the wheel again 😂
Hi Mick, I just found your channel and I really like it: I'm 21, I live in Italy and I drive a little Twingo 1 from 2005 (it's my mum's car) which I enjoy driving fast on some country roads even if it only has 58 hp . Watching you enjoy your driving as I do really puts me in a good mood (my thanks are also for the Megane RS, I think I became a kind of a Renault fanboy)
Thanks mate! I had a 2009 twingo GT a long time ago - extreme blue, 100bhp 1.2 with a little turbo. I loved that little thing, drove it all over the country because that's all I had :D
I'm not actually a Renault fanboy, I promise... but I seem to keep buying them
@@MickDrivesCars They just make us happy I guess ahaha
@@MickDrivesCars mine is not a GT, it's the first series of the Twingo and I would love to swap it with the GT's engine but I don't have a job and money to do it
@@MickDrivesCars I guess the Renaults and the Alpines just let you have fun ahah
Twingo squad
Got the twingo 3 dynamique in red and white
2:00 man those roads are straight out of Forza Horizon 4. I would really love to drive there one day :)
Haha yep the UK is full of them!
I drove to and from Stansted Airport on back roads from Cambridge (avoiding the A14) and I have to say it is honestly such a fun drive to do. Roads are wide for the most part, with "jumps" which make you feel weightless every now and then and plenty of fun corners. Looking forward to the next time I travel there haha
Hi Mick,
Hatfield Heath to Takeley. To Stansted Airport. Broxted onto Thaxted. All on my doorstep Great roads. Can I suggest dont turn right at MoleHill green carry on to Elsenham at the top of the hill turn right. That is a longer stretch of the B1051 into Thaxted.
As you turn right in Thaxted heading to Great Dunmow turn left just past petrol station onto Bardfield road then head to Finchingfield. then follow signs for Great Dunmow.
I love your enthusiasm! Watching this makes me sad I'm away from my car for a long time now.
Thank you so much! My goal when I started making videos was for my passion to shine through above everything else. Glad to hear it's working!
Share with me mate, what car are you longing for?
@@MickDrivesCars My manual 2010 BMW F10 528i.
Some of the best roads I've found to drive on in the South/South East:
A23 to/from Brighton, nice three lane road that goes on for mile after mile, dips and mounds, good easy road to drive on but no real "fun" to it and there aren't any challenging bends or corners as it's a 70mph road.
A259 in Romney Marsh, towards St Mary's Bay, single carriageway with a 60mph limit, just after the right hand turn down towards Lydd airport there is a sharp left hand bend, followed immediately by a right hand one as you then enter a 30 zone. It's only a short bit of road probably just over a mile or so long but it's a fun road. You can follow that road all the way up into Dymchurch and then up into Hythe and onto another fun road, the A261 Hythe road, that's a little over a mile long and it's a 60 but it's quite narrow and twisty with a few sudden sharp left/right turns.
As you then get to the junction turn right onto A20 Ashford Road and that's another fun road down to the A20 roundabout, which you can then use to join the M20 back towards London.
The A21 from the Tunbridge wells junction where about a mile or so further up at the roundabout it goes from 2 lanes into a single carriageway with a 60mph limit, it then fluctuates a lot as it passes through numerous towns before you eventually hit another long stretch of national speed limit before Sedlescombe, where it goes back to 50. It's a good fun drive down to Hastings although at some parts it is a single lane with a lot of solid white lines or hatched markings, and you'll often find yourself stuck behind a lorry or someone doing 30 and be unable to pass them for some time due to the road markings and the frequency of bends.
Down in Uckfield there's a lot of single carriageway and dual carriageway, with a LOT of roundabouts, one at the end of each road which then joins another fast road, it's not quite as challenging or fun as there aren't any real bends, with the most difficult bit being the roundabouts (which a lot of have severe potholes across the whole of so your car can easily lose grip), but none the less it's a fun road still, follow that road all the way down to the Co-op at Polegate services and you can go around the roundabout and do the entire journey in reverse.
I've driven down to Bognor Regis before on a few occasions, a decent 75 mile or so trip each way from my house (just inside the M25) and there's a lot of fun roads down that way too.
The A12 from London up to Chelmsford I've driven on a few times, not been that way for a few years now but I recall it was good fun to drive down, equally the A3 from London to Guildford I always enjoy too.
In the past I've also found the route A2 -> M2 all the way down to Margate where I used to work years ago was quite fun, a lot of it is motorways and dual carriageways, but there's some fun single carriageway roads as you get nearer to Ramsgate and Margate, a lot of them though have a 50mph limit and are frequently enforced by mobile speed camera vans or have average speed cameras.
Another one to add to this list: the B2046 between the A2 and Wingham is great fun to drive on.
@@jpro3000 Drove through Canterbury a few months back. Can't say I recall this road but no doubt I drove along it!
I am in the US but I am loving your videos. I do the same with my car, looking up good roads near me and map it out
Thank you! Nice to know the audience is way bigger than I realised
This has my whole being aching for a drive … but both my cars are down right now and finances been too tight to get them up and running 😭 new subscriber & Living vicariously through channels like your own so please keep on keepin on !
People who say they 'hate driving' just don't get it do they. They have never really driven have they. Me & my little Cooper Mpi love driving, oh them glorious English country roads 💚🇬🇧.
Great video mate, thanks for the headsup on the best biking roads website. Very very awesome to see your mentality to enjoying cars and respecting the small villages, it's rare to see another Londoner take the same view! See you on a good driving road soon hopefully
I used to drive the A272 from Winchester to Petersfield in my Caterham 7 in my 20s. 3 kids later and a busy life, I suddenly became 49, and I've forgotten the fun of a good road, just for the hell of it, burning fuel. F it, tomorrow I'm going to take my Cupra 300 there, just for the drive!
How did it go mate? If you ever have time and want to meet up for a drive hit me up, I'm local :)
@Mick Drives Cars ended up having to take the kids to Splashdown! Got some a/l this week. I may try a blast then, when no one's nagging me. I used to organise car meets with the Pistonheads lot along that route back in the early 2000s. Maybe a local meet should be organised. Virginia Waters was another PH meeting stop.
Holy sh*t. I'm from India and those scenic roads and that pinkish sky felt like in-game graphics(in India you'll find turns every 100mts, not the best experience). Def gonna try that site.
Dude you guys have some of the most beautiful mountain roads in the world
Love this vid mate, one day check out NZ we have some banging roads.
One day if this channel gets big enough I'd love to visit the best roads in every country in the world 👌
If you ever come to America and wanna drive similar roads, go pretty much anywhere in Kentucky, good quality roads, hardly any straight sections, narrow usually, and to top it off it’s usually cloudy or rainy there fairly frequently 😂
Right in front of my house (in italy) there is a 8km road that is completely empty at night and it's straight forward, no curves or anything. I'm going to get familiarity with my first car on this road when I'll get the driving licence. Also don't worry, I take safety too seriously, so I won't act like those young people like me that go crazy when they get their first car, I self learnt how to be resposible and not cause troube to both my parents and the strangers.
That sign really means no speed limit? Doesnt that mean some special limit ends there, but it goes back to normal 30 or 35 whatever you have in uk
White with a Black cross is the National Speed Limit - on a B-Road, it's 60mph limit, sometimes is a bit sketch going 60mph, especially with cyclists due to going nearly blind. Great fun tho
The national limit sign is 60 on a single carriageway and 70 on a dual carriageway 👍
All of our speed cameras also have a 10% leeway so realistically the speed limit of that road is 66mph. A nice challenge when there are super tight, twisty corners 👌
Yes unlike the Isle of Man the sign in the UK is for national speed limit. Just be careful of the dual carriageway, it's till 60mph unless there is a physical divide or grass between the lanes. Two lanes divided by paint is 60mph@@MickDrivesCars
Good video! I love your video's! I subbed 😊
Thank you so much mate!
Your channel is about to blow up
Already has to be honest, I've gone from 400 subs to 2k in a week! Never even imagined this kind of response...
@@MickDrivesCars yeah RUclips recommended me your driving fast video this week, which immediately got me interested in your channel. I was very surprised when I saw the low sub count. You have the quality of someone with 100x the sub count
Damn mate, thank you! Lots more videos coming hopefully they'll be even better than before 👊
@@MickDrivesCars Looking forward to it!
Your laugh reminds me of Jimmy Carr, lol. Great video! I found a couple of routes near me here in the midwest US that I plan to check out.
Haha you're the first on youtube to say this but I get it a lot in real life!
Porsche roads is a great alternative
I'll look into this, always happy to find more great roads!
Just came across this now, great video👍🏻 but after watching it all, it wasn’t really clear which actual road/route you wete driving on. Zooming in to your map at the start of your drive was very grainy …i’ve also noted down the website at the beginning. You mentioned the M11 and Feathers Hill from London, so I suppose that’s the route?
Come up to Scotland mate we'll show you what a corner is!
I wonder how you only have more subs, the quality of these videos is outstanding, keep it up brother ❤❤
Thank you so much!
Nice content, keep it up
Thank you! I 100% will, lots more to come
Lake district roads are brilliant but i am getting sick fast))
great vid, im on border of north london/hertfordshire, think i need get out weekends on some of these roads local/not far from me as think just help with my mental health, mostly sat indoors. only time i go away driving is with mates in car group but everyone lives far away and we only meet few times a year due to commitments/distance. dont suppose you got a copy of this route?
I actually recently moved away from London or we could just meet up and I could show you
Ping me a DM on insta and I'll send you the route
How do you actually map out a custom route? Cant seem to find the option on the google maps app. Thanks 😊
There might be a better way but I add multiple stops. Also on the desktop version you can drag the route to change it which is super useful 👍
@@MickDrivesCars nice thanks for the tip 🙂
love your videos bro
Ahhh you're making me feel all warm inside. Thank you mate!
Dude you got to help me lol I've moved to Hamburg in germany, from North yorkshire UK and the roads here..... Please find me something cool to drive in my FD
Hi, what road is this? Would love to try it
Whats the speedlimit past this sign? 1:19
That's a national speed limit sign - 60mph on a single carriageway, 70mph on a dual carriageway
would be more fun in a manual!
Hey what about cops ? Calculated risk?
Not really, we're quite lucky because we have a 60mph limit on these roads. Most of the time it's a challenge to even do 60. If I go slightly over at times it's no drama.
I live in germany and I have the "Pfälzer Wald" (palatinate forest) 25km away from me. Just looking at these streets from google maps will get you ecxited to go for a ride. I drive there every few weeks and it's always really fun and I see so many sports cars doing the same thing. These curvy uphill and downhill streets really feel like a rollercoaster without tracks.
I can really recommend the spot.
what country are you from?
I was born in Slovakia 👍
Noooo way 😮
dont need to find them I already know where they are
I'd lose my license on these roads.
Haha really easy to!
I have a theory of taking it easy on the straights, up to and around the speed limit, but then going pretty hard in the corners which is more enjoyable for me. Bonus is I don't loose my licence!
@@MickDrivesCars We got a speed trap warning app in germany so i just send it on any road and hope for the best.
So you seen out tight winding roads you know cyclists come to, and then drive like an idiot along them?
Wtaf? I hope you don’t kill someone on a bike, but I hope they catch up with you at some point..
First of all, bestbikingroads is for motorcyclists, of which I am one. The creator of the site left a comment on this video thanking me.
I'm also a cyclist, I have a gravel bike and a road bike. I try at all points to give as much room to cyclists as possible because I know how scary it is when someone doesn't.
I did not egregiously speed or drive dangerously. I enjoyed my car within reason and kept it responsible the entire time.