There are many, many reasons to visit the Lake District: climbing, hiking, riding, sailing and sausages are but a few. The perilous passes and lakeside roads make Cumbria a must-have on any keen drivers’ tick list and the delightful Lakeland Motor Museum simply makes any trip to the lakes even more compelling.

Don’t let the giant potholes and self-taught drivers put you off. A road trip across Georgia can be a breathtaking adventure of unspolit scenery and welcoming locals, says Zoe Whittaker.

Are you nutty enough to drive across the USA in a 26-foot peanut or an even bigger hot dog?

As the esteemed Dr Emmett Brown once said: “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!” If that’s your idea of the most awesome automotive adventure then you’ll probably want to go fully off-grid as well as off-road when you hit the trail. Here are five fantastic vehicles that are mission-ready.

The NC 500 has been pitched as a Scottish Route 66 – although with fewer diners, giant ketchup bottles and dinosaur museums, says Luke Ponsford.

Sitting on Sunset Boulevard, just down from The Comedy Store and opposite the Oppenheimer Group (of Selling Sunset fame) is another American icon – Mel’s Drive-In.

It’s not just the scale of natural scenery that can take you by surprise on a road trip. Sometimes it’s the strangest man-made objects that catch you off-guard.

The history of French sports car brand Alpine traces a fascinating geographical path taking in race tracks and epic mountain passes to create one hell of a road trip says Dan Trent.

You don’t need to own a luxury sports car to drive one on a road trip to remember.

“Do you expect me to walk?” “No Mr Bond, I expect you to drive.”

A road trip around Cuba is a journey back in time, where 1950s Yank tanks still own the roads. Let Charlotte Vowden be your guide on this 600-mile drive around the island.

The right car on the right road can make a road trip all the more memorable. The wrong car on the wrong road can do that too.

Living in London and owning a Caterham Seven means that getting to a good road to enjoy it takes some work. But no pain no gain. So in a brief interlude between lockdowns Nik Berg and son Max embraced the effort and sought out seven of the mainland’s most amazing roads in just seven days.

Aston Martin’s Sheffield-born chief designer Marek Reichman lives by a mantra of ‘find the beauty’, so that’s exactly what Dan Trent searched for in his native Yorkshire.

Duke of London is much more than just a fancy car dealership. It’s a hub for enthusiasts that’s become a huge part of its Brentford, West London community.

Like Japan’s Irohazka Road, the Kaunertal Glacier road in Austria was once a pilgrimage route. Taking true believers from Kalternbrunn to Melagg in the Southern Tyrol the road was arduous and tested not just faith but endurance.

If you’re lucky enough to live in one of these amazing houses then you really don’t have to travel far for a great drive. When your private driveway is race-ready then a Detour is on your doorstep!

There can be few more iconic road trips than a run down through California on the Pacific Coast Highway. The PCH or Highway One is one of the best ocean drives in the world and one to be savoured.

Brothers Chris and Jeff Mason fulfilled a lifelong ambition to compete in La Carrera Panamericana rally, and lucky for us, a film crew was along for the ride.

Professor Lynne Pearce, professor of literary and cultural theory at Lancaster University has spent years researching what we think about when we drive.