11-02-2015, 10:26 AM
(11-02-2015, 07:15 AM)Poodle Wrote: Main thing is not falling foul of individual countries' legislation, 3mm tread depth is a legal requirement on most of the continent, for example. The AA site is pretty good for covering all that though. The '6 we took round Europe in May managed about 30mpg across the whole trip, and that was with a whole lot of hooning up and down mountain passes fully loaded lol. I'm pretty sure the S16 achieved similar on our trip out to the nurburgring in October, so i'd expect to see about the same from the 1.8.
If you like trouble you can come on our next trip, you can play distraction tactics for whatever nationality copper is trying to pull me over that day. [emoji38]
Lol yes, God yes I'm up for playing distraction! Sounds like a bloody laugh! Yup the car will be getting some new tyres in the coming month, I need them so it's not an option.
(11-02-2015, 08:36 AM)Dum-Dum Wrote: On a drive up to my parents in Scotland that was 80% motorway and 20% A roads all taken very sensibly at 65mph the rallye got 470 miles to a tank of 58L which is about 37mpg
The fuel isn't as bad as I expected if a rallye is getting that...that's actually pretty decent, especially most of the trip will be m'way, I was budgeting for a 350 mile range, but that extra 70 odd would be beneficial.... I'll still budget 350 just in case, you never know! I'm not quite a lead foot like I used to be lol