a curate's egg - ecoboost S550
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Well I managed to snag myself an S550 convertible for 2/3s of my holiday and was quite chuffed.
Initial impressions are good comfortable with a reasonable amount of luggage space, good toys (heated/cooled seats, decent radio, various driver modes to play with) and quite a nice feel (in all honesty prefer my camaro, but it's closer than I thought it would be). Then I started it up - dear Lord!! What a hateful, agricultural sounding lump it has
The next surprise was the 10sp auto, fine in theory but in usage it's (IMHO) no better, if not worse, than the 6 speed in my SS Camaro or the 7 in my SLK.
The final shock for me was the fuel economy, having driven from Florida to Washington I expected to get some decent figures but I was flabbergasted to find that my old Camaro returned similar figures (I've not had my 2013 long enough to return any mileage figures).
In fairness this is a rental with 16k on the clock, but I'm definitely underwhelmed and am interested in seeing how the V8 fares in comparison
Initial impressions are good comfortable with a reasonable amount of luggage space, good toys (heated/cooled seats, decent radio, various driver modes to play with) and quite a nice feel (in all honesty prefer my camaro, but it's closer than I thought it would be). Then I started it up - dear Lord!! What a hateful, agricultural sounding lump it has
The next surprise was the 10sp auto, fine in theory but in usage it's (IMHO) no better, if not worse, than the 6 speed in my SS Camaro or the 7 in my SLK.
The final shock for me was the fuel economy, having driven from Florida to Washington I expected to get some decent figures but I was flabbergasted to find that my old Camaro returned similar figures (I've not had my 2013 long enough to return any mileage figures).
In fairness this is a rental with 16k on the clock, but I'm definitely underwhelmed and am interested in seeing how the V8 fares in comparison
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