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You owe us a trip in the 7 series now don’t you

I own a 7 series 730d and thought what a great idea and figured you might have a better opinion of it after a long trip which is what I bought mine for. So yes you still owe us a 7 series road trip...

One of my favourite KZfaq channels . Do more road trips to Europe if you can .

I was looking forward to the 7 series trip - what makes you thing it would not have been reliable. Great engines and so relaxing…..😊

Quite the trip. Back in 1989 when I was 18 I fancied some chips, so, I jumped in my Ford Escort 1.3L Y reg and drove from Bedfordshire to Sidmouth for some chips. I ate them by the sea, got back in the car and drove back to Bedfordshire. I went there because I went on holiday with my late mum. It felt good and the chips were nice too 😁 Those were the days when you could go from Bedfordshire to Devon in around 4 hours due to the lack of speed cameras and much much less traffic. These days its a 6 to 7 hour journey 🙄

I knew you would be stopped coming back into the UK. The first thought that flashed through my mind was "he's gonna get stopped" because I've just finished reading a book by Peter James who writes about Roy Grace a Brighton detective. He caught his man , a drug dealer no less, by sheer luck when his man was stopped coming back to Britain in a Ferrari full of cocaine and as yours is an exotic car it was inevitable you would look suspicious . Moral of the story. Travel to Paris and back in a Ford Focus.

Can’t believe you bottled out taking the 7 series🤷🏻…was looking forward to seeing how it fared. I took my 3 series diesel on a Paris road trip recently and it did brill on fuel 👍

Am I the only one who thinks the 7 series would have made it a more interesting video? Even not trying to do it on one tank. Still enjoyed it, nice one Matt!

Great video. I felt my blood pressure climbing upwards when you were in Paris. Reminded me of when I got lost in Lille about 20 years ago. Lovely tribute to Her Majesty - class.

You hit the nail on the head with “if you’ve got nice things you must have done something dodgy”. In the UK it’s like the system is bitter your successful and cannot imagine it was done legally.

Still keen to see the 7 series; Luxury road trip for those on a budget with possibilities of disaster. Gotta be done. Superb touch at the end too Matt. Elegantly done.

After the ending I have massive respect for you mat. I laid some flowers and paid my respects outside Buckingham Palace Saturday just after she passed away when I told my mates they just laughed at me and took the piss but just like you it was something that I felt like I had to do. 😢

I thought the BMW can easily do 1000 on a tank and then I realised you’re talking miles, not kilometres. That’s more of a challenge.

That shot of you walking up to the Benz in the dark was straight out of a Bond movie! Really enjoyed this video.

Can’t believe it’s been 4 years since the rav 4 Manchester to Malaga vid, I remember it like it was yesterday! Great vid Matt as always, the only channel I watch on KZfaq, always brightens up my weekend. AMG GT proving to be a proper grand tourer, and lovely tribute at the end, cheers

Great video Matt and you're a braver man than I am for driving such a nice car through Paris. Nice touch at the end, fitting tribute.

“What could possibly go”, the words spoken before every disaster in history

livin the dream mate, well done you worked hard to get there, been watching since the Rav4 was on the eurotrip!

Fantastic video Matt and a super touching end. Thank you for taking us with you. all the very best.

Enjoyed the vid.. was looking forward to seeing what the 7 series would have done mpg wise. Awesome vid as always Matt..

Well done Matt, great road trip with a touch of class at the end. Keep at it Buddy 👍

as much as i love the AMG , I would've preferred to see the 7 series do the trip and not be click baited

This video is some of your best work to date Matt. Well done! 🍸

Yeah, that is putting a smile on your face 😊 But you must definitely do a 7 series trip too!!

Great video Matt. I have to admit I was looking forward to seeing how the big BMW went but that AMG……..spectacular!! Really loved the ending. Very dignified and respectful. Love your hard work and content, thank you 👏🍻

Great video once again. I'm glad you are doing Road trips!

Great video. Well done Matt….Top stuff as always and nice detour at the end mate

A really really enjoyable & great video, well done look forward to another Roadtrip type one again in future

the ending was surprisingly moving. none of us really knew her but she she was part of our lives

Really enjoyed how you edited this video, perfectly paced and the last few minutes really made for a fitting end... Nice work Matt

I’m so glad you binned the BM off and took the AMG! I was stationed in Germany for 12 years and started off with the ferries but then started using the tunnel as it helped with the time to pop home for the weekend. I remember us getting stopped at French customs after we’d been on exercise in Canada for a month. We’d flown home and jumped straight in the car to go on leave. Well our dirty washing from Canada was in the boot and the customs officer was keen to look inside, my mate said you don’t want to do that which egged him on to look and as the zip was yanked open on the bag his face as the aroma hit him and his urges to be sick had us both laughing our heads off! Good times!

Fantastic video Matt. Really enjoyed it as, living in Germany, I used the Eurotunnel a lot (sometimes the ferry, but I agree that it's worth the extra to save time) and it was nice to see your experience. I imagine that annoying 50 mph limit is still there on the M20. You absolutely took the right car. More road trip videos would be great.

Your a good man Matt, excellent video as always & lovely touch to the end of the video as well.

Very different content to your usual but very entertaining. Perfect ending to your video ❤️ look forward to your bmw trip lol

Every now and then you break everything up with something totally random and real. Great video!

Enjoying these road trips Matt.

Some might describe this as click bait

And so say all of us who have served in HM Forces myself included we salute you Ma'am!!

What a thoughtful gesture at the end. Really enjoy all of your work, thanks very much.

The whole nighttime garage sequence was very cinematic. Loved the video

A Royalist. Great ending Matt. Respect!

Your experience with that van pulling out from the side road in Paris is probably the mad concept in France of “priorité à droite” at junctions that don’t have give way (cedez le passage) signs. It means the vehicle on the right has priority even if the road on the right is what appears to be a side road. They even have this on some roundabouts which is even more exciting!

Nice trip, but at 17:35 editing in that sound clip while the white van reeled you in made me chuckle. 😆

Great video, you definitely chose the right car. Love the tribute at the end.

Yes Matt. Road trips? Now we're talking!

I used to travel across the continent, to Hungary every summer, even in the winter once or twice. We stopped in Paris and other places for a few days and I always thought that the ideal car to do this journey is something in the range of a 5/7 series BMW, E or S-Class/CLS, an A8, XJ or maybe a CL. Your LS would have been also a fine car, but people driving those never leave the country by car. I drove a few 3 series and C-Class across, but you need plenty o refinement and long/wide chassis to make long journeys comfortable. Also, driving around the Arc de Triomphe in a RHD car (or generally in Paris) that costs a small fortune is not fun. I spent a few months in France when I mainly drove a VW Caravelle, a gen 1 Range Rover and occasionally, a Daimler. The French love the latters. Maybe avoid the Range Rover in Paris, unless prepared for hitting scooters or having extensive dent removal and crash repair. My last few cars were mainly E-Class estates and I’d say, that is a good enough car to do continental journeys even better than it is a good enough car to do the shopping. An E350 CDI estate would be a marginally less dynamic car on this journey than any sports car. May as well, you could head south and make it a GT road trip! If you are travelling in the winter, take an Quattro or Allroad, A6 or A8. I was genuinely looking forward to see the 730d on that journey.

loving this channel mate, keep going!

Really top video matt. Keep 'em coming.

question about your range rover: have you tried putting your rear seats down and been able to sit in your normal position. my l405 autobiography with the executive seats makes me sit so far forward with all the seats flat

Great video Matt and no doubt quite an expensive trip!... Loved your respectful ending

A perfect car, a perfect vlog with a perfect ending, well done Matt..

Powerful, evocative end Matt - some things are simply more important; respect. On a lighter note I hope Paul doesn't sue you for libel! (that bit had me in stitches!). Yet another class video.

I've missed this car on your channel. It's beautiful. If you found it hard to park the GT in the car park, I'd imagine that it'd be even more difficult in the 7 series given that it's considerably longer. Lovely tribute at the end, too.

great video Matthew , please do more of these and add more footage of the driving, great experience

Excellent👍🏻, I just drove a 2.0Tdi Audi Q5 from Snowdonia to Frankfurt and back on 2 tankfuls of diesel. It’s got 322,000 miles on it (not Km’s). What a car 👌

Excellent video with a brilliant, respectful ending. Thankyou.

Thought I was gonna be the only one dissapointed not to see you do the trip in the 730d😂

I usually do my euro trips in a V8 7 series!😂 although the last one, we bounced a 22 year old 206 through 10 countries before finishing in Gibraltar and heading home…..because we thought it would be funny I know what you mean by the British border force, I think it’s a job requirement to hate your life in general before your allowed to be an immigration officer! Even the German and Swiss aren’t that annoying👍🏼

A great video Matt. And a very nice ending too, fair play. Thank you once again 😊

Great video Matt and a very nice touch at the end.

Thanks as ever for the content, raw and real. Also the perfect way to end. She will be missed.

4 years since that rav4 video ??? Unbelievable how time has flown 😮

Really enjoyed this vid Matt, lovely thoughtful ending as well. Respect 🙏

you arranging your roadtrips last minute feels very much like home to me🤣 i done a similar one around europe this summer with my 3.2 tt (mk2) and i did felt this in the border on my way back (even if it’s not that expensive as your gt ) nice trip and nice video though, thank you for sharing

A proper road trip which was so relatable Matt. Enjoyed the trip with you. I am always impressed how you put these together alone (though I suspect Mum probably shot the ‘B’ roll…which was a nice touch). Thanks, classy ending too.

Been following you from Barcelona/Málaga since the beginning. So so happy to see how far you’ve come Matt. Good on you too for paying your respects in London. P.S ignore the customs questioning, from what it sounds like you just got someone who’s bitter with their life… I’m very used to it too when I travel, chin up and enjoy the fruits of your labour. Best, Will.

Great road trip, really enjoyed watching it, the tribute at the end was pure class!

A wonderful wonderful video Matt in all respects. Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed every second. What a car 👍🏻

A female friend you say? Sounds suspiciously like a dirty weekend Matt. 😁😛😉👍

Great video. A touching tribute at the end too. Would love to see a long trip in the 7 series when you feel you can trust it!!

Great content as usual. Touching tribute at the end.

That was a great video, a nice change . Amazing car too. Dapper Dan certainly keeps your hair fresh if that’s the right phrase lol

Nobody wanted to see the merc. Everyone wanted to see the big 7.

I am absolutely LOVING this channel!! I used to love Top Gear before it became a laddish free for all in the noughties. The consumer advice had largely disappeared and had been replaced by celebrity and toxic humour...... and that's why I love your channel Matt. You give factual, honest advice and opinion; something that seemed to have disappeared for 20 odd years. Yeah OK there have been other KZfaqrs during that time but you..... I dunno...... you have a depth of knowledge and a charisma that has got me hooked. We're not all about Interviews with Jimmy Carr and dead prostitute jokes. Some of us want to know about cars and you have saved us!! All hail the new King. King Matt! .....erm...... I mean, great channel fella. Ahem....... Keep it up!

Wasn’t expecting the ending Matt. Nice one. 🙏🏼

Great video Matt! Living life to the full...😊👍

You’re bloody hilarious and also the most relatable car reviewer here in my opinion…I also speak for the masses 😂

I reckon 1000 miles on one tank in the 730 was ambitious anyways ! Still - nice to go a road trip, just for the sake of going a road trip. Also liked the detour at the end…very respectful.

Well Matt, feeling a bit scammed you didn't take the 7 series, you may not have been so stressed about those French drivers prancing your baby. However, all credit to you for the end of the video and demonstrating respect for the Queen, its increased what I already had for yourself. Well done .

Can’t believe I’ve just watched a video about a AMG GT for 20 minutes but I enjoyed it. Well done😉

I'm pleasantly delighted by the last minute change to the AMG GT instead of the 7'er! Top Gear Aston DB9 to Montecarlo vibes!

First video I’ve had to dislike of yours, felt a bit clickbait, would have been a more interesting video if you had gone in the old 7 series. Even if it had broken down.

Is it wrong I really wanted to see the trip in the 7!? 😂 Great video nonetheless. Respectful ending too. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

You caught me out there, forgot what had happened momentarily with the distraction of the video and suddenly felt a tear in my eyes again. Feel like I’ve just been on a road trip myself after watching this, I live in France part time and I’ve driven around Paris a lot, although I live in Lyon, and finally you were about twenty minutes from me. Anyway, another great video, and I hope you don’t lose anything on that 7!

Dude, this was awesome. i felt like i was doing the trip and it cheered me up big time. 😁

All the way through I was thinking that’s the day the Queen died , so pleased you acknowledged it , top man

YES YES YES, few weeks back I was writing a suggestion about road trip in the comments, ...and there we are, Fantastic!!!

I couldn't think of a better car to do that journey in! Touch of class at the end too for a life devoted to her nation.

Really enjoyed this mate, Keep it up! 👌🏽🙌🏽

Keep going like this. I love the video!

Now that 730 has a full tank, gonna have to use it! I lived in Paris for a little over a year, took my UK car with me. A Mercedes a very similar colour to yours except it was an SLK and it was diesel. Every single time I crossed back on the ferry, without fail, I got pulled into the little customs shed built for one. Honestly, why, every bloody time. Well done on making the detour to London, god bless you Ma’am

CLASSY. Nice touch at the end!

Cracking vid Matt, more road trips 👍

Well done. Appreciated the ending also.

just got back from France myself today after a road trip to Le mans,Nantes and Bordeaux the back via Deauville in my £1300 2003 Mercedes E320 CDi it performed perfectly throughout. i have had many cars but the old inline straight 6 Derv driver is a favourite..Now safely ensconsed back in Ramsgate.

You made a wise choice. A possibly stranded 7 series in the middle of Paris while having to be on schedule seems like a double nightmare to me.

Enjoyable video and a thoughfull end. Thank you Matt.

Really nice touch at the end Matt, well done. Great video by the way.

Lovely touch at the end of this content