right benjy its half way through a week give us an update on how things are with the car ... any advice will be getting mine 3 weeks and counting
Mate to be honest the past two days she has sat on the drive with about 2 ft of snow on her. I hate seeing her like this but what can you do. Anyway I had Sunday and Monday (Off work xmas shopping) to be able to give a small run down of how the car felt and what my first impressions are.
I think I said in previous posts that the first thing that goes through your mind even if you have had a test drive of one is the immense torque of the thing. I had forgotten how that fel on this car. It just wants to spin up the back tyres so frequently and a little too easily. I can compare it to my TVR which was a lot lighter and around the same sort of power output but had that immense torque feel to it. Straight away you fall madly in love with the sound in which it sounds better when starting from cold to when it is warm. When its cold you get that slight overrun popping from the exhaust when you let your foot off the loud pedal and it just puts a crafty smile on your face. You no this thin is going to be powerful but its like it take you back to being a naughty kid. Love it.
I have to say like everyone else the fuel consumption is something else but to be honest you dont buy one of these if you are worrying about petrol and "is it going to get me to the shops and back for a tenner", its a pure drivers car. I am so glad I had the LSD fitted now and can see the difference it makes in comparison to my TVR which didn't have one. Its like its steering the back end of the car when it goes into a slight slide which you will have to get use to and again puts a naughty boy smile across your face, especially when your missus says "Oh thats scary".
If I have one criticism it would be the bluetoothing of your phone and trying to upload the contacts and issues around the Iphone 4 which isn't really the cars fault but Apple being its usual self of not thinking of the effects their products have on the real world.
The other thing is people dont seem to like you in this car, I think they feel it is slightly intimidating and the noise and power p*sses them off, and I really mean that, especially BMW drivers for some reason. Had a few little gestures made and I wasn't doing anything out of line, especially as I am still running her in. The running in process is hard to stick to in which I have had her a couple of times over the 4,500 rpm limit recommended and over the 85mph mark but its like the car is telling you to "try me out and see what you think"
Pagzzy, all I can say is its the most amazing car I have ever owned in which I knew I was going to love it, but I have fallen in love with it.....its WICKED!
