Monday, 27 October 2008

New Audi A4 - First Long Run... good mpg

Today I had to make a run upto West Yorkshire, approx 250mile round trip. Car was perfect and comfortable over this distance.. fuel consumption was 53mpg on the way up and 51mpg on the way back.. very impressive. Obviously still running in the car and time wasn't a factor today so didn't push things.. but keeping up with traffic. On a similar run, the Volvo couldn't hit 40mpg.. the Ford Mondeo estate 2.0Tdi might have been high 40's along with the Jaguar X Type 2.2

The service interval data is now starting to kick in.. with the oil change and service time now seems to correspond at the same mileage point.. about 18500 miles from now.

Saturday, 18 October 2008

Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Admirer

Stranger things have happened... but somebody driving in the other direction flashed their lights and gave me the thumbs up at the car. I guess it must look good. Nobody ever did this with the Volvo XC70 :)

Other people have said it is an A5 (from front view). Looking at the A5, the A4 is actually a touch more aggresive in it's look and stance. The bonnet wraps over the lights in a more aggressive way and the bottom spoiler is also more pronounced.