Folks

I arrived in Austria today after an 8 hour, 800 mile trip from the French cost via German autobahns. I cruised at 120mph where possible, with 2,700 rpm and an indicated 30mpg. Phenomenal! Took one and one half tanks of diesel. I could hardly hear the engine and the wind noise was not too bad. In one stretch, I managed to test out the high-speed handling characteristics whilst following a Porsche at around 135mph - when we encountered a sharper than expected bend!!!! Wife was totally unaware of my panic - car did what it does best & went around on rails.

Anyway, I'll take some pics of the car, mountains & snow & post on my return.

Bye for now....

 

congrats - sounds like you are really having fun - of course u do realise that if you had a spolier the car would have felt even more on rails and shown the Porsche a thing or two about high speed handling!

pics would be great

 

Hi to all

The promised pic is attached below - hope you enjoy it. The trip was uneventful other than for:

(a) radar flashes in Belgium & Germany (would you believe on the Autobahn);
( a squashed cat on the way back (luckily the kids were asleep at the time).

During the trip, I saw *loads* of locals giving the car admiring glances. It really annoyed my wife! She already thinks I love the car more than her, and on that point I will plead the 5th!

Sorry to return as a massive snow dump is forecast for tomorrow.

 

I have some more for you....

 

And another (don't know what went wrong with the last one...)

 

Last one....

 

See if you can figure out which resort from the last pic!

 

Zell am SEE?

 

Close - but Zell is about 40 mins away. The clue is on the gondola....

 

..nice pics..your e 60 is orient blue?..