My car wasn't shit though. I had a stiff back by the time we arrived but in general it was tolerable.
Take plenty of music though! If there's someone going with you and they're promising to stay awake - THEY'RE LYING!

so I've only been as far as Bedford on my own. The car I'm driving is very old though and only used for short journeys. It could probably reach Milton Keynes and back but that's it.

In a Ford Ka.

Birmingham to Edinburgh in an elderly Mondeo.

OK no probs, just check your water oil and air, take a bottle of water for drinking and music to listen to. Take a break or two to stretch your legs.

well I was in the car, Mr Starshaped drove.

Lincoln to Lancaster across the dales was phenomenal, Lancaster to Gravesend via Cambridge for a Tuesday night footie game less so.

or something lame like that. I've been away at uni most of the time, and when I'm home I don't have my own car and my mum almost always needs hers.

mission. but it was fun though, stopping off in places and looking for pound shops.

The car was okay, a few years old. A ford something or other. I wasn't the one driving you see and i know very little about cars.

I've driven to Bournemouth and back in a day from Manchester (about a 10 hour round trip), though admittedly there was a few hours break in the middle of that to play music to an entirely inattentive crowd who'd been distracted by a group of pole dancers who went on just before us. Just check your tires and oil, make sure you've plenty of snacks and music and take a few services breaks (for you and your car!)

to Berlin. You need a co-pilot, caffeine, haribos and more caffeine.

and I'll come with you!

Make sure you pack:

1)Some fizzy sweets - though not sherbert as you'll spill this down you whilst driving and spend the next 10 hours in a gritty sticky mess

2)10 road trip mix CDs that feature at least 2 power ballads per disk

3)A navigator who won't piss you off with their non-stop 'Are we there yets' - preferably someone who'll be up for sex in random laybys at least 3 times during the journey

4) A map and your RAC membership card

is Surrey to Nottingham, only about 2.5hrs.
Lame!

Absolutely NO Twat-Nav may be employed.

3.99 AA Road Atlas, nothing more is required!

yes, take lots of music. haribo starmix too. car games are good too, especially "BMW"

You either have to be completely anal and programme an enormously long playlist into your ipod / CD changer / whatever based on 'by the time I get to Loughborough will I really be in the mood for grindcore? (answer: yes)'.

Or just stick your pod on shuffle.

I drove from Kent to Exeter and it actually took me longer to plan my listening for the trip than it took to drive it.

in an F reg VW Golf. Went to a New Years party and then drove back to London the next day, in the snow!

i didnt drive. daddy did

4 1/2 hours. It was okay. Music helps. So does Relentless.

Flash cunt.

I get to drive ny girlfriend's F reg hearing aid beige Micra.

Makes me feel a bit like Hightower.

was about double the length of an average driveway.

I can't drive...

A couple of times now.

Music is vital....obvs, but also well timed coffee/tea/poo breaks. I mix up my tunes with a bit of informative radio 4 chat or 5live. Also make little targets for yourself like, in 2 hours I'm gonna be in Carlisle or summat.

Dont worry about your Micra... I used to bomb it up from Cornwall in my clapped out YUGO to see my buddies at Swansea uni all the time!