pvernham
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Just returned from 10 days with the car in Europe, including a 3 day lay up for business.
2,300 miles at an average of 63mph (lots of town driving [
]), 23.4mpg, one camera flash in France [] and the car didn't miss a beat.
Visited France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany (inlcuding Porsche factory tour - see separate post) and Belgium.
Found some excellent roads in France. Best drive of my life involved about 150 miles on the N75 South of Grenoble. The road was virtually empty and has lots of variation through hills/mountains/valleys with fast and slow stretches. Roof down, radio off, accelerator on the carpet, was a magical couple of hours.
Beautiful roads also found on the Cote d'Azur between San Raphael and Monte Carlo. Drove the Grand Prix circuit (slowly) but did give it a bit of welly in 2nd gear through the tunnel []
Trip home from Stuttgart yesterday afternoon included about 3 hours on the autobahn. Cruising at 200-210 kmh was very easy although I was a bit disturbed at still being overtaken at pace by an Audi A4 Avant 2.5tdi !!
When the road opened out and there was no traffic, a few runs up to more heady speeds just proved that the driver would bottle out before the car.
Apart from slightly higher wind noise, the only noticeable difference during that high speed run was that the oil temperature was about 10 degerees higher than normal UK use, and after 20 minutes in Belgium at more normal speeds, the oil temperature returned to its usual level.
Have to say that the overall trip has just made me love the car even more and respect it for its breadth of capability to do excitement, style, speed, comfort, reliability and practicality (the hotels couldn't believe how much luggage came out of the car).
Time to plan another trip.....
2,300 miles at an average of 63mph (lots of town driving [
]), 23.4mpg, one camera flash in France [] and the car didn't miss a beat.Visited France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany (inlcuding Porsche factory tour - see separate post) and Belgium.
Found some excellent roads in France. Best drive of my life involved about 150 miles on the N75 South of Grenoble. The road was virtually empty and has lots of variation through hills/mountains/valleys with fast and slow stretches. Roof down, radio off, accelerator on the carpet, was a magical couple of hours.
Beautiful roads also found on the Cote d'Azur between San Raphael and Monte Carlo. Drove the Grand Prix circuit (slowly) but did give it a bit of welly in 2nd gear through the tunnel [
]Trip home from Stuttgart yesterday afternoon included about 3 hours on the autobahn. Cruising at 200-210 kmh was very easy although I was a bit disturbed at still being overtaken at pace by an Audi A4 Avant 2.5tdi !!
When the road opened out and there was no traffic, a few runs up to more heady speeds just proved that the driver would bottle out before the car.
Apart from slightly higher wind noise, the only noticeable difference during that high speed run was that the oil temperature was about 10 degerees higher than normal UK use, and after 20 minutes in Belgium at more normal speeds, the oil temperature returned to its usual level.
Have to say that the overall trip has just made me love the car even more and respect it for its breadth of capability to do excitement, style, speed, comfort, reliability and practicality (the hotels couldn't believe how much luggage came out of the car).
Time to plan another trip.....
