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Hats off to Rainer Zeitlow and his team for driving his Volkswagen Touareg from South Africa to Norway in nine days, 4 hours to set a new Guinness World record. HP and Intel, Rainer’s lead backers for the Cape2Cape challenge showcased security, connectivity and telemetry technology in the exceedingly connected car, a moving …

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  1. frank ly

    "... Volkswagen Touareg from South Africa to Norway ..."

    Did it meet the emissions control regulations in every country that it was driven through?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: "... Volkswagen Touareg from South Africa to Norway ..."

      Frankly, frank ly, that was an inevitable first post.

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    2. ZankerH
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      Re: "... Volkswagen Touareg from South Africa to Norway ..."

      They had to skip Syria because they're understandably nervous about gas attacks.

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    3. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: "... Volkswagen Touareg from South Africa to Norway ..."

      Just LOOK at the amount of smog that they've produced in the arrival photo! You can tell it's a VW...

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    That black line

    on the aerial photos shows the path they took.

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    How many migrants did they find in the back when they arrived?

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  4. JeffyPoooh
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    Sorry I'm late...

    Records for 'Driving from A to B' shouldn't include flying.

    In fact, even taking a ferry is worthy of an asterisk.

    Bridges are okay.

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  5. Trainee grumpy old ****
    Boffin

    And how did they get to Amman?

    To reach Europe - and avoid Syria - the team flew from Amman, Jordan.

    But they don't appear to have driven in Jordan. The list of 19 countries, presumably in chronological order, goes straight from Egypt to Turkey.

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      Re: And how did they get to Amman?

      To get from Egypt to Jordan, they had to drive through a narrow portion of Israel.

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  6. Voland's right hand Silver badge

    Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia,

    He either:

    1. Had special arrangement to pass borders bypassing the queue as well as special arrangement for all Serbian motorway tolls

    2. Could do 4h less on this time.

    While it is not as bad now as in mid-summer or during the refugee mayhem, going through Serbia is slower than going through Romania for mere commoners because:

    1. Motorway Speed limit is 120km/h and is policed quite strictly. Romanians are at 130 with bugger all policing.

    2. There is a 20-40 min queue at each Serbian toll unless you chose some really ridiculous times to travel - like 3 am.

    3. There is up to a 7km queue on the Hungarian border where the border control while not kicking you outright (that is a journo prerogative), will try to make sure you regret traveling through there.

    Compared to that taking any of the routes through Romania ends up faster despite being 150km longer and with much less motorway.

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