If you happen to have seen a car commercial in the 1990s, then there’s a very good chance it was filmed on Chapman’s Peak Drive. And for good reason.

This is a voyage of discovery, a voyage that’s been immortalised in many a road movie. A journey of hope, of anticipation. A journey that millions undertake every year, hoping to get rich quick.

It’s the most evocative circuit on the Grand Prix calendar. Where beautiful people and fat wallets cling together to the Mediterranean cliffside in the sunshine. Where 200mph racing machines barely reach half their potential as they tiptoe through the streets, inches away from incident or accident.

Drifting across a frozen Lake Baikal might be the drive of a lifetime but you’ll remember it for all the wrong reasons if you don’t follow an expert guide.

Scotland has roads and landscape that will seduce drivers. Plot a course from Glasgow to Inverness and no matter what you’re driving you can’t fail to have a good time

The Azore boasts roads so challenging that they form the basis of the European Rally Championship

It seemed like a good idea. Drive from London to the northernmost point in Europe. In a convertible. With the roof down. In February.

You know you’re about to experience something special when you see a road sign that reads “Not advised for learner drivers, very large vehicles or caravans.”

Locals call it The Snake, and, if all the crash videos on YouTube are anything to go by, then this road certainly can bite.

On a good day this 14-mile stretch of sinewy Thomas Telford-engineered tarmac affords glorious views of the Pennines.

If it’s real adventure you’re seeking, then avoid the Lasseter Highway and do as the locals do. ‘Go bush’ in a 4x4.

You can literally drop a pin on a map of Wales at random and find an amazing driving road

In Corsica the post is never late. To cross from one side of the 3,350-square-mile island, which is one vast mountain range, you have to conquer the wildest roads in Europe.

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have a lot to answer for. Before Top Gear visited Romania, the Transfagarasan Highway was near enough a secret.

For the past 27 years, the island state of Tasmania has given itself over as playground to a rally quite unlike any other.

The are few places in the world where you can legally and safely exceed 200mph. Nardo is one of them.

This is one of the greatest mountain roads in Europe, and whether you’re cranking your pedals or pressing them to the metal, it’s one for the bucket list.

When the winter sports crowd (and the economists) have gone then Davos becomes a destination for drivers.

Top Gear once called the Stelvio Pass the world’s best road. So, if you’ve got a passion for four wheels or two, a pilgrimage is obligatory.

If there’s a surefire way to fall for New England in the fall, it’s a drive down the Kancamagus Highway.