Four days of challenges across California. Twenty entrants. Ten two-person teams. One simple rule at the centre of it all: your car costs $2,000 or less.
Discover 2K Tour2K Tour takes the finish and organisation of a serious automotive event and applies it to cars that have absolutely no business being treated this seriously. The result is part road trip, part challenge and part moving comedy — built around people who genuinely love cars.
Each team starts with a car bought for no more than $2,000. Creativity beats horsepower.
Ten cars. Twenty entrants. Every team needs a driver, navigator and enough optimism to make Day Four.
A route designed around great roads, unexpected stops and challenges — not simply getting from A to B.
Daily checkpoints, creative tasks, roadside jeopardy and a final overall winner at the end of the run.
Example 2K Tour-style cars — not confirmed entrants. The brief is simple: cheap, funny, charismatic and just mechanically credible enough to survive the route.
Large, thirsty and wonderfully inappropriate for a multi-day challenge.
Example only • Target budget: up to $2,000
Exactly the sort of oddball choice that becomes funnier and better the longer the trip goes on.
Example only • Target budget: up to $2,000
The smooth, overqualified wild card — old luxury at deeply questionable market money.
Example only • Target budget: up to $2,000
Slow, practical and ideal for a team that prefers reliability to image.
Example only • Target budget: up to $2,000The route can blend coastline, mountains, dry lake bed and classic road-trip scenery. These are the kinds of destinations that make the format work.
Cliffs, ocean and the kind of scenery that makes every tired car look better.
Alpine water, cool air and a proper sense of distance from Southern California.
High-elevation roads, mountain scenery and a more dramatic rally backdrop.
Open space, dust and a desert stop that changes the rhythm of the trip completely.
Classic California coastline and an easy social finish or overnight stop.
The exact route stays private until closer to departure. Expect a mix of coast, canyons, desert, mountain roads and enough mileage for the cars to start revealing their true character.
Scrutineering, team intros, first challenge and the moment everyone discovers what everyone else bought.
Longer mileage, checkpoints, timed challenges and enough driving for the cars to start showing themselves.
The hardest day: remote roads, mechanical jeopardy and tasks designed to reward teamwork.
The final run, finish-line arrival and awards for winners, disasters and the cars that somehow made it.
“A properly organised car event where nobody cares what your car is worth.”
Not a concours. Not a supercar club. 2K Tour is a small automotive community built around bad buying decisions, brilliant roads and the people you meet along the way.
Register your interest for future 2K Tour dates. Teams, route and entry details can be shared privately with selected entrants.