Richard Porter – the Sniff in Smith and Sniff – describes two diametrically opposite drives that vie for the title of his Favourite Detour.

Andreas Preuninger is not your stereotypical German board member. The head of Porsche’s GT Line is perpetually smiling, wears sneakers and is a true petrolhead, who has loved road tripping since the day he began driving.

Chemmy Alcott is a four-time Winter Olympian, ski coach, BBC Ski Sunday presenter and keen driver. Last winter, she challenged herself to drive a Škoda Enyaq around the Alps — learning the hard way how to make an electric car work over 4,500 miles in the mountains.

The two-time World Rally champ now spends most of his time in the passenger seat, but when the mood takes him he still takes the occasion detour to the forest tracks around his Swedish home.

David Gandy may be best known for strutting his stuff on the catwalks, but Britain’s top male model is also a highly-accomplished designer and driver on the Mille Miglia.

Like all his Formula 1 peers Mika Salo only knows one way to drive: flat out. Even when that’s taking a road trip across South Africa.

Ellie Cooper’s debut book Waiting for Mango Season charts her two-wheeled trek across the Himalayas during lockdown on a Rusty Royal Enfield. Of all the epic mountain passes “The Cliff-Hanger” is the one that counts as her favourite detour.

Filmmaker Alex Bescoby drove 13,000 miles in a 64-year-old Land-Rover from Singapore to London, to recreate one of the world’s most famous overland adventures.

The man responsible for the creation of the fastest BMWs recalls a memorable road trip in South Africa.

Car designer turned man of the cloth Reverend Adam Gompertz finds spirituality behind the wheel, especially when roaring down a French mountain in a classic MG.

Oona Scheepers recounts an unlikely trip in a classic VW that, like most good stories, starts with a bet over a drink.

Away from the cameras Helen Stanley is fan of the weird and wonderful and her Favourite Detour took her on a 400-mile round trip to an abandoned theme park.

Andy Wallace and Pierre-Henri Raphanel have driven thousands of miles around the world as Bugatti’s test pilots. But where do these seriously speedy men find their favourite drive?

Ben Coombs is best known for his epic 27,000-mile Pub2Pub drive by TVR from the northernmost bar in the world to the southernmost. Along the way he came across his Favourite Detour.

Farmer, founder of Evo magazine and YouTuber Harry Metcalfe has road tripping in his blood. His Favourite Detour is the return leg of one of his biggest adventures.

BBC Travel Show presenter Christa Larwood went in search of a fictional paradise, but after many days driving on treacherous Tibetan mountain passes, she thinks she found it.

Ian Callum penned the Aston Martin DB7 and headed Jaguar design for 20 years but it was a spell behind the wheel of a Ferrari 250 GT SWB in Scotland that will always be his favourite Detour.

Three-times Le Mans winner Allan McNish has taken the chequered flag all over the world and still travels the globe as team principal of the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E team. But when it comes to his Favourite Detour, he's very happy to let country roads and a 1984 short-wheel base Audi Sport quattro take him home to the Scottish Borders.

“Africa, Africa, Africa, Africa, Africa, Africa – there is no other place for me,” is how Ari Vatanen replies when asked where his Favourite Detour lies.

After plans for an epic drive fell through journalist Charlotte Vowden realised her Favourite Detour is anywhere that her, her father and her MGA go together.