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James Cleary
Deputy Editor
17 May 2019
9 min read

We’re hooking into a maximum-attack right-hander in front of the lawn bowls club, carving up the back streets and turning the post office and memorial hall into a blur as we light the afterburners up the main drag, ending with a 10 tenths dash towards the yacht club and flat-chat blast to the edge of town.

Icing on the cake is the cops are watching on but not so much as lifting a finger as we scream by to the cheers of locals lining the streets.

People talk about living the dream, but this automotive fantasy recently came to life for me in George Town, on the north coast of Tasmania, as the Targa Tour attacked some of The Apple Isle’s best driving roads.

Read the full Hyundai i30 Fastback N 2019 review: Targa Tasmania.