BV> If there's one thing you should know about me by now it is that
 BV> I don't lie.

  That's a lie!

 BV> I took the family down to Batemans Bay for a drive. I got the
 BV> milage "just right" too :)

  Bloody perfectionist! ROFL! Jesseus! I'll bet you put 500 k's on the
clock to the nearest 10 metres.

 BV> As you know, they suggest that whilst running-in a new car you
 BV> keep it below 100 kph fir the first 500 klm and then mix it up
 BV> a bit for the next 500 klm.

  Quite right too. I don't know how important it is in reality, but I
always run my cars in to the book and I've never had trouble with an
engine or brakes (touch wood).

 BV> I managed to put 388 klm on it last week-end before it went in
 BV> and after I had finished running around on Saturday morning, it
 BV> had 490 klm on the clock when I got home.
 BV> We live 11 klm from the the start of the Expressway :)

  I knew it! Bloody hell, Brenton... another 5 metres wouldn't have
made any difference. I'll bet you pushed it into the shop with the
motor off.

 BV> We put another 520 klm on it this week-end and I can tell you
 BV> that without a doubt this is the best car I have ever owned.
 BV> The whole thing has been superbly engineered. It's almost as
 BV> though the accountants haven't been consulted at all. It's a
 BV> great package.

  Cars are getting better, aren't they? There was a 12-year gap
between my last car and the Skyline, and I was amazed that it was so
much better! You get the advantage that your one is on the end of a
long development of that model, with constant improvements.

  I had a drive of a Jaguar 3.8s last week. This was a classic car
I was in love with in the early 60s. It's a heap of shit! I wouldn't
have it as a gift, compared to modern cars.

 BV> I got a V6, VR Berlina with IRS/ABS/SRS and FE2.

  What's FE2? (fucking everything too)

 BV> It is the dark blue which Holden call Genesis and I've had the
 BV> windows blacked out.

  Bloody hoon! Thw girl next door had one of those and it looked
great! She drove it into a telegraph pole and totalled it (and walked
away - limped away).

 BV> The wheels have been changed and it now sports a set of 16 x
 BV> 7.5" Nascar mags running 50 profile Falken rubber.

  Grumble , grumble, envy, envy, bastard, bastard!

 BV> The body kit consists of the front and rear extensions from the
 BV> SS with the SS wing and the side skirts are from the SV-3800.
 BV> It looks nice and it has the desired effect too. When I come
 BV> barreling down on someone driving in the right hand lane they
 BV> move over real quick :)

  That's just the flashing lights and the siren of the Highway Patrol
on your rear bumper...

 BV> It is a great vehicle to drive and it's got quite a bit of
 BV> stick too. You don't need to worry when overtaking either as it
 BV> will quickly and easily run out to 160 kph before you know it
 BV> and it's as smooth as silk the whole time. It's almost like
 BV> riding a rocket on rails. I love it...

  Grumble, envy, bastard, bastard! The 110K limit is a joke, if you do
160K running it in with your foot off the accelerator!

  In the second 1,500K you have to do a bit of hard acceleration and
high revs. If you need someone to thrash it I'm available.

 BV> Heading down the coast, I turned off at Albion Park and went
 BV> the back way to Nowra through Jambaroo. I told Patricia that I
 BV> wanted to give the kids a chance to see the rain-forest at
 BV> Minnimurra falls while Cape Tribulation was fresh in their
 BV> memories, so they could see the difference between a Tropical
 BV> and Sub-Tropical rain-forest.

  You must think Patricia is a dill. No one is going to believe that!

 BV> Of course, I really wanted to check out the trick suspension
 BV> and wheel-tyre setup. I think I nailed it :)

  Oh. What a surprise! He wants to thrash up the Mazquarie Pass to
show the kids the ferns, and he just happens to go into the hairpins
at twice the posted speed. "I don't want to use the brakes too hard,
Darl," he says. "I'm bedding them in."

 BV> It just bites into the corners at any speed and zings around
 BV> them dead flat, regardless as to the surface or condition of
 BV> the road.

  I'm not really surprised, with 7" low profile Falkens that set you
back $250 a copy... not to mention mags, IRS, and sports suspension!

  I felt the same with my Skyline (although I had the decency not to
thrash it until I'd put up 5,000K). It was so smooth and so fast...
but when I got into a chase with a bloody Gazelle, I was sideways in
the corners to keep up. It does not corner well. I have to brake hard
in and accelerate out of the corner, because it tends to hop if you go
in too fast. It'd be nice to just dive straight in... but I don't
think I'd like to find the limit in that hoon-mobile of yours.

 BV> " Remember Dear, Greasy Chips and Chocolate Milk " ... The
 BV> Bitch!

  Too smart for you... although you must pull a few g's at maximum.

   
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