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07-07-2009, 04:09 PM
Just got back from Sydney. Good grief, how do people live with that traffic now? Anyway, went down and back the New England highway to avoid the road works on the Pacific. Did both runs in the one hit (11hrs 43min on the run down, and 11hrs 57min for the return- must have been a headwind on the way back!).
Got to say the Tig is bloody fantastic on a trip. As some of you know, I've got a busted back from too many bike accidents and that's main reason I'm stuck buying SUV's or 4x4's because of the extra seat height in them. Anyway, the Tig is just in a different league. Not that I usually drive that far in one hit, but I never thought I'd be able to do that sort of continuous driving. So I'm very pleased.
Other things that I liked about it on the trip:
- Fuel consumption continues to blow me away. Averaged just over 9l/100k's for the entire trip which included running around in Sydney.
- high speed stability and minimal cross wind effect.
- all the comfort stuff that helps keeping the concentration on the driving and not on adjusting and pushing buttons when conditions change. The Climate Control is the best I've had in any car, and the dual zone is handy. The park assist was used constantly and worked a treat every time, much to the amazement of friends and bystanders. The Sat Nav was great just for the speed camera and speeding warnings alone (I grew up in Sydney so know all the streets, but there are speed cameras every where now, plus NSW seems to have a thing about changing speed limits along the same road for absolutely no reason - 50, 70, back to 50, 90, back to 50! And they really don't like 60, 80 100 limits now, it's all 50, 70, 90 :duh:).
- gear ratios, I was a bit unsure about them, but it all works on the highway (although 6th is very tall for our speed limits). Still want a taller first, but that's another story :).
- but the one thing that makes it so great to drive is the performance. The re-mapped engine is just so sweet on the highway. Hill climbing is just a laugh as it pulls like a new V8 and sees everything else fading in the rear mirror. The power also comes on fast and responsive and makes overtaking a much safer maneuver, especially when on an incline. If someone was playing games, it was pretty easy to get rid of them within a few seconds (if I was feeling that way inclined) and they tended not to try again. Only problem is it likes to sit on around 150k/h - which we obviously can't do.
Only came across two other Tigs on the whole trip, including running around Sydney! They mustn't be selling in NSW? Passed a blue one at Palm Beach, and a white one at Mosman (driving along Military Rd. Sunday afternoon, they slowed down and checked me out -anyone from here?).
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Got to say the Tig is bloody fantastic on a trip. As some of you know, I've got a busted back from too many bike accidents and that's main reason I'm stuck buying SUV's or 4x4's because of the extra seat height in them. Anyway, the Tig is just in a different league. Not that I usually drive that far in one hit, but I never thought I'd be able to do that sort of continuous driving. So I'm very pleased.
Other things that I liked about it on the trip:
- Fuel consumption continues to blow me away. Averaged just over 9l/100k's for the entire trip which included running around in Sydney.
- high speed stability and minimal cross wind effect.
- all the comfort stuff that helps keeping the concentration on the driving and not on adjusting and pushing buttons when conditions change. The Climate Control is the best I've had in any car, and the dual zone is handy. The park assist was used constantly and worked a treat every time, much to the amazement of friends and bystanders. The Sat Nav was great just for the speed camera and speeding warnings alone (I grew up in Sydney so know all the streets, but there are speed cameras every where now, plus NSW seems to have a thing about changing speed limits along the same road for absolutely no reason - 50, 70, back to 50, 90, back to 50! And they really don't like 60, 80 100 limits now, it's all 50, 70, 90 :duh:).
- gear ratios, I was a bit unsure about them, but it all works on the highway (although 6th is very tall for our speed limits). Still want a taller first, but that's another story :).
- but the one thing that makes it so great to drive is the performance. The re-mapped engine is just so sweet on the highway. Hill climbing is just a laugh as it pulls like a new V8 and sees everything else fading in the rear mirror. The power also comes on fast and responsive and makes overtaking a much safer maneuver, especially when on an incline. If someone was playing games, it was pretty easy to get rid of them within a few seconds (if I was feeling that way inclined) and they tended not to try again. Only problem is it likes to sit on around 150k/h - which we obviously can't do.
Only came across two other Tigs on the whole trip, including running around Sydney! They mustn't be selling in NSW? Passed a blue one at Palm Beach, and a white one at Mosman (driving along Military Rd. Sunday afternoon, they slowed down and checked me out -anyone from here?).
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