1 Month in... 2,061 miles covered... 30mpg average... huge grin every mile...
The pre-purchase concern of Range Anxiety proving not to be an issue, getting about 440 miles per tank, so whilst the 64 litre tank is a little on the small side, its manageable. If there were a cost option for a 70-80 litre tank, I would be a customer, to get to my ideal of 500 miles out of a tank.
After 8 years of diesel, thank god I haven't accidentally grabbed the black nozzle at the pumps (not wishing to curse myself)... its been green all the way, as have been paranoid about that.
The car has certainly bedded in now, you can feel that its unwound itself a little, it has a noticeable readiness to sprint out of the starting blocks.
Noticeable that people are welcoming of the car... to let out of a junction; to allow space for change of lanes; to say hello at the petrol station. Thankfully no adverse reactions yet, although have kept it low-profile at work and nothing on social media etc. (only here!)
The car has proved a definite daily driver and family friendly. Whether school run, shopping... running on all road surfaces in comfort and without issue. Although the daughter has been advised that whilst she can press the exhaust button, she's not allowed to press the wing button, as that enables the car to fly!
The car is nigh on perfect, all aspects of driving is HUGE GRIN factor. Naturally then tend to go to comments on the technology functions rather than the engineering. The interior light package, whilst a quirky option, now that its dark in morning and evenings, its very nice. The PCM & adaptive mapping is spot on. The iPhone app is dead handy, to check if you've locked the car etc and to see your tyre pressures and fuel for peace of mind. Keyless entry and start is brilliant, I love the JEDI function how you open the boot, using THE FORCE hand gesture to magically open it without physically touching anything.
Washing it is a joy, panel gaps and small touches like the junction between the windscreen and the body is nigh on aero perfection. (as an aside, there really is no need for a rear screen wiper, under any weather circumstances IMO).
Niggles are few and far between, and you've got to be pretty pedantic to complain:
- The handbrake button is without question, the wrong way around!
- Wish that Apple CarPlay worked wirelessly.
- Miss the shortcut buttons from my BMW iDrive. They were dead handy to customise as you wish.
- A bit weird that when you have AirPlay on, you can't use PCM phone, you have to use the airplay phonebook etc. Would be nice that you can use PCM & AirPlay in parallel instead of one or the other.
Thought I was going to miss my Heads Up Display from last couple of cars, but the dashboard layout and adaptive screen of the 911 is sound.
Saw a new Black 4S around the corner from me on Friday, the only other 991.2 I've seen on the road.
One performance improvement this week is that the car now has a better power to weight ratio, as I ground out on a speed bump last week despite care on all speed bumps for obvious reasons. Jesus it made a horrific noise!!!, clearly sounded worse that it actually was, as I was expecting to get out the car and see either a hole in the front splitter/skirt or the floor pan. Thankfully from close inspection of the speed bump and under my car, it was a tiny bit of underseal from a small metal rib below the front boot (the grey gunk), that was left on the speed bump. Don't think I'd want it any lower than it is!
Got little brother this week! Same paint colour, nearly as fast
(except the alloys). Getting the Tamiya RC 911 kit next week!