1 weeks ownership

[Marvib]

Ok, where do I start? How about giggle factor? 10/10

It's such a lazy cruiser it's silly, such a chilled out relaxed motor till you press the loud pedal (not that loud actually with standard exhausts). Usually by a week in on a new motor im picking fault with them, not this time.

If I REALLY had to have an issue I suppose it would be cornering at speed, but ive gone from boxster s to this so that wouldnt really be fair.

I had the boxster for 2 years and not once did anyone come up to me to talk about it, with the monaro.....all the time, and it's generally people who know what it is.

Just to add 1 week £100 in petrol, im not really trying am I?

[GruFFnuTT]

Only £100!? Do you not like driving it!? Haha

Yes, lazy until you poke it with a stick!!!

Cornering in these is a skill to be mastered. I had to change my driving style to suit the car (from Elise, Tamora, 350Z). It's a lot of weight to carry into a bend and there's a lot of power available to use on the exit. It's all a bit of a balancing act and you can easily be caught out!!! Haha... I know this as I let my Old Man have a go on the day I picked it up and we went sideways out of a bend as the speed and weight caught him out!!! In the wet is whole different ball game!!!

ENJOY!!!

[GruFFnuTT]

Forgot to say... WELCOME

[ARAF]

Sounds like it's fitting the bill just fine.

We came from Boxsters too. Both special cars, but in different ways.

[jet_noise]

Dear M,

what brand of rear tyres do you have?

regards,
Jet

[Marvib]

jet_noise said:

Dear M,

what brand of rear tyres do you have?

regards,
Jet

She has p zero Rossi (rosso?) all round, have always liked conti myself so will swap to those when these wear out.

[Codswallop]

Glad you're enjoying it

Are you planning to get a new exhaust to remedy the lack of noise?

[EmmaJ]

Enjoy it

The first 3 weeks I had mine I did a grand on petrol

[Marvib]

Codswallop said:

Glad you're enjoying it

Are you planning to get a new exhaust to remedy the lack of noise?

At this moment I'm planning on keeping it standard, but I've said that about cars in the past.

It's quite funny in some ways, my neighbours comment? "so you've finally given up on fast cars with big engines then?"

[garyv8tiger]

ive done 500 miles in 3 weeks and spent 300 on fuel .but still running it in lol

[KMud]

garyv8tiger said:

ive done 500 miles in 3 weeks and spent 300 on fuel .but still running it in lol

~10.6 MPG? Good work!

[Whiskeydog]

EmmaJ said:

Enjoy it

The first 3 weeks I had mine I did a grand on petrol

Wish i had the funds to do that

Nice car, looks like mine. Welcome to the forum. Now onto more serious business... Are you coming to this years national Monaro/vxr8 meet???

[snowwolf]

Glad your enjoying the Monaro, they are very addictive I have done 23k miles in two years and I rarely use it in the wet or in winter

[garyv8tiger]

KMud said:

~10.6 MPG? Good work!

should be able to get it lower once its run in lol.

[garyv8tiger]

snowwolf said:

Glad your enjoying the Monaro, they are very addictive I have done 23k miles in two years and I rarely use it in the wet or in winter

dont know how you,ve done that many miles if you dont drive it in the rain or winter .are you not a uk resident lol

[GEARJAMMER]

Which part of the uk might we expect to see this black beauty? If your down south we do some rather good Monaro meets (well gruffy arranges them the rest of us just turn up where he tells us to) still fun tho.

[ARAF]

garyv8tiger said:

snowwolf said:

Glad your enjoying the Monaro, they are very addictive I have done 23k miles in two years and I rarely use it in the wet or in winter

dont know how you,ve done that many miles if you dont drive it in the rain or winter .are you not a uk resident lol

He lives in the South. We are blessed with dry conditions for most of the year.

[garyv8tiger]

ARAF said:

He lives in the South. We are blessed with dry conditions for most of the year.

and flooding the rest lol

[antnicuk]

Welcome, if you think you get attention with stock exhausts, wait until you get a proper one on there, then you will get serious attention, add some supercharger whine in the mix and you have a symphony!

Within a week of owning mine i went to the ring with 13 other cars, the only car that got the same attention as me was a Lambo LP640......

over a 1000 mile round trip, I stop counting the fuel costs......

The hotel carpark:

[garyv8tiger]

ive done the ring in me sunbeam tiger also spa and lemans .right about the petrol just dont think about it .i used half a tank doing 2 laps of lemans . quite funny later when they all try and see what u got under the hood .