{"id":1270,"date":"2014-10-14T12:04:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T10:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogautosphere.creatic-agency.fr\/un-road-trip-de-26-ans-en-classe-g\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T09:16:11","slug":"un-road-trip-de-26-ans-en-classe-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autosphere.fr\/blog\/un-road-trip-de-26-ans-en-classe-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Un road trip de 26 ans en Classe G"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"custom-post-container\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gunther Holtorf est l\u2019auteur de la meilleure publicit\u00e9 qui soit pour Mercedes, du moins pour un tout-terrain Classe G ! En effet, cet Allemand de 75 ans est revenu samedi dernier \u00e0 Berlin apr\u00e8s un p\u00e9riple de 26 ans au cours duquel il a roul\u00e9 890 000 kilom\u00e8tres \u00e0 travers 215 pays. H\u00e9ros.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tout plaquer et tailler la route. Prendre le temps de d\u00e9couvrir les paysages, les hommes, la nature. Un r\u00eave que beaucoup ont fait. Gunther Holtorf l\u2019a r\u00e9alis\u00e9 en compagnie de sa femme, Christine. \u00c0 75 ans, il vient de rentrer \u00e0 Berlin apr\u00e8s un tour du monde d\u00e9but\u00e9 en 1989 avec un Mercedes Classe G de 1988, surnomm\u00e9 Otto.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">De la Lufthansa \u00e0 la Cor\u00e9e du Nord en passant par le cancer.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Partir aussi longtemps, sans jamais revenir. Qu\u2019est-ce qui a pu motiver telle aventure ? Gunther Holtorf avait une belle situation en Allemagne, travaillait \u00e0 la Lufthansa. S\u2019il ne se souvient pas du moment o\u00f9 l\u2019id\u00e9e a germ\u00e9, Gunther se rappelle qu\u2019il voulait appara\u00eetre dans le Guiness Book. D\u00e8s lors, rien n\u2019emp\u00eacha Gunther Holtorf de trimballer son Classe GD bleu ciel en Afrique, en Am\u00e9rique du Sud, en Asie\u2026 Ni la Malaria, ni les gardes fronti\u00e8res tatillons. Il ne rebroussa pas chemin lorsque le cancer emporta sa femme en 2010, deux semaines apr\u00e8s s&#8217;\u00eatre finalement mari\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autosphere.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/8e1f8eb0dbed59256c4a50000bbd00a8.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00c0 la place, il d\u00e9cida d\u2019achever ce v\u00e9ritable tour du Monde, parfois accompagn\u00e9 de son fils Martin. La boue, la rocaille, les routes d\u00e9form\u00e9es\u2026 Gunther a tout connu, jusqu\u2019en Cor\u00e9e du Nord. Pays r\u00e9put\u00e9 le plus ferm\u00e9 du monde. Ou l\u2019Afghanistan, probablement l\u2019un des plus dangereux. Dans le journal allemand Die Zeit, qui retrace son parcours, Gunther Holtorf confie \u00ab <em>une certaine m\u00e9lancolie<\/em> \u00bb \u00e0 pr\u00e9sent qu\u2019il est rentr\u00e9 en Allemagne. Et lorsqu\u2019il lui est demand\u00e9 quelle \u00e9tait la chose la plus importante \u00e0 ses yeux durant toutes ces ann\u00e9es, il r\u00e9pond qu&#8217;il s&#8217;agit de son Atlas mondial des routes. \u00ab <em>Plus important que mon passeport <\/em>\u00bb. Ce carnet de voyage est annot\u00e9 de toutes les routes emprunt\u00e9es pour \u00ab <em>aller l\u00e0 o\u00f9 les autres ne veulent pas aller <\/em>\u00bb.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YpeYOWK3l9E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Comment a-t-il pay\u00e9 tout cela ?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dans le monde r\u00e9el, les r\u00eaves sont souvent contrari\u00e9s par des probl\u00e9matiques financi\u00e8res. Comment le couple Holtorf a-t-il pu voyager ainsi durant autant d\u2019ann\u00e9es ? Si le d\u00e9but de l\u2019aventure fut sponsoris\u00e9 par les \u00e9conomies de Gunther, ce sont les travaux de Christine qui ont financ\u00e9 deux d\u00e9cennies de road trip. Cartographe de formation, elle r\u00e9alisa et mit \u00e0 jour le premier plan d\u00e9taill\u00e9 de Jakarta. Un atlas de 400 pages de la capitale indon\u00e9sienne aux 30 millions d\u2019habitants et vendu \u00e0 150 000 exemplaires.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autosphere.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/af8ff4a73dcf1080b718d2a92db2c695.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quant \u00e0 Otto, Gunther affirme qu\u2019il est rarement tomb\u00e9 en panne bien que charg\u00e9 de 500 kg de mat\u00e9riel sur des pistes africaines et des cols \u00e0 plus de 5 000 m\u00e8tres dans les Andes. Seul le syst\u00e8me de climatisation a souffert ou bout de deux ans de voyage (au Kenya). Le moteur, la bo\u00eete, les ponts, les jantes\u2026 tout est d\u2019origine. Devenu l\u00e9gende, Otto sera d\u00e9sormais soigneusement conserv\u00e9 et entretenu au Daimler Museum de Stuttgart et pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 comme le meilleur v\u00e9hicule pour faire le tour du monde ! C\u2019est le PDG de Daimler, Dieter Zetsche, qui l\u2019a annonc\u00e9 &nbsp;samedi dernier (11 octobre) lors d\u2019une c\u00e9r\u00e9monie \u00e0 Berlin. Il en a profit\u00e9 pour garantir qu\u2019il y \u00ab <em>aura toujours un Classe G dans la gamme Mercedes <\/em>\u00bb comme, on l\u2019esp\u00e8re, qu\u2019il y a aura toujours des personnes comme Gunther et Christine Holtorf pour parcourir le monde. Le fait est que par les temps qui courent, on y croit de moins en moins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autosphere.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/b754fb0f79d04c0796600b6f2d99ba75.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Via Mercedes,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/20141009\/77-year-old-returns-from-215-country-world-tour-holtorf-otto-mercedes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Local<\/a> et&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GuntherandChristineHoltorf\/photos_stream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">page Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunther Holtorf est l\u2019auteur de la meilleure publicit\u00e9 qui soit pour Mercedes, du moins pour un tout-terrain Classe G ! En effet, cet Allemand de 75 ans est revenu samedi dernier \u00e0 Berlin apr\u00e8s un p\u00e9riple de 26 ans au cours duquel il a roul\u00e9 890 000 kilom\u00e8tres \u00e0 travers 215 pays. H\u00e9ros. 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