Nice ride!
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From: Bowie MD
Nice ride!
My forty year high school reunion was this weekend, up in Western PA. My family and I went up but took two cars as SWMBO wanted to spend some time with her family. I would have looked to have done that as well but I had to teach and my classes are back to f2f this semester. Hers are still online, so she's teaching from PA for a couple of days.
Anyway, two differing schedules meant that I had to drive my 'Vette up on Friday and back on Sunday. It's between five and six hours each way and I had a blast! The car ran beautifully with traffic moving between seventy and eighty pretty much the whole way, with occasional excursions into the nineties. I averaged about 24 miles per gallon for the trip. It was a fun trip.
Of note:
Best,
Jerry
Anyway, two differing schedules meant that I had to drive my 'Vette up on Friday and back on Sunday. It's between five and six hours each way and I had a blast! The car ran beautifully with traffic moving between seventy and eighty pretty much the whole way, with occasional excursions into the nineties. I averaged about 24 miles per gallon for the trip. It was a fun trip.
Of note:
- The SES light lit up for a couple of seconds at one point, but went off again. The car seems to do this once every other month or so.
- I was actually a bit stiff from the drive each way. I apparently use more / different muscles when driving the 'Vette.
- It's hard to describe, but the driving on this trip was different from the Caravan or Journey that are the "family cars." I was really engaged with the car and with the ride for the entire trip, both ways.
Best,
Jerry
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Glad to hear the trip went well and you had fun! Its nice to get these cars out for linger than normal drives. They typically do very well on extended drives and fuel mileage isn't horrible honestly.
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Forgot to mention that I got a good datalog for the first half of the drive there. I got tired of looking at the lights on DIC so I shut the logging down. I'm looking forward to looking at the data although I don't think anything is amiss right now. It will give me a baseline for when necessary.
