According to my Magyar wife, the status of the cars worked out as:

plus the hard shoulder usually had debris etc. raising the risk of damage or a puncture

Meanwhile in Budapest... I just love the variety of noise that Hungarian Ambulances make, not like anywhere else I know.

I guess the same as any city, this was Paddington, along Euston Road, cut down to Marble Arch, along Park Lane to Hyde Park Corner, round the back and side of Buckingham Palace to the Mall and then across Trafalgar Square to Charring Cross Station

Two comments from the passenger:

A post off an aviation blog, super cub.org linked to the Brian Shul story here. No credit to claim, I stumbled upon it via the link, but a great story...

cool Rover! Agree back road driving is much more tiring than highway cruising.

Not quite travelling to buy, but we bought our first 'own' car (1997 Seat Ibiza) about 50 miles from home in Bristol, UK in around 2000 then drove it to Budapest, Hungary over 2 days (1500 miles). Two days after getting there we took part in a 'race what you bring' drag session at the Hungaroring F1 track. Some good…

Just leaving this...

(Sarcastically)

Exactly what I was thinking, plus the potential for bi-metallic corrosion.

sponsorship...

Deliberate, racing incident? ...whatever and they have supposedly made up.

Deliberate, racing incident? ...whatever and they have supposedly made up.

this - toy car is ideal.

here in UK the phrase 'hairdresser's car' carries a lot of similar implications...

the latest version looks cooler...

been there done that too ;-)

No worries, we're both right! Jalops are worldwide, but I hate to think of someone reading this and thinking riding the tracks might be a good idea...

maybe on slow freight lines, at work on the railway we get about 10 seconds warning to stand clear, trains doing 120mph...