Intrepid
Well-Known Member
There and Back Again
Dug the car out of it's winter parking spot and took it on a winter road trip
Had a family member pass away on the east coast so my wife and i decided to drive down for the services
4 provinces
3 Time Zones
7995 kms from Manitoba to Nova Scotia and back
mileage seemed to be in the 6.4 - 7.6 l/100 kms depending on the speed limit
And the car just turned over the 55,000 kms mark on the return trip
Engine consumed about 1 litre of oil during the trip
also burned about 14 tanks of fuel
Did the entire trip on the Si Alloy's with the all season tires that came on the car, they have only been on the car in the winter to store the car so they may have had 1000 kms on them before the trip, where the roads were dry they didn't perform bad but when there was snow or black ice on the road it was pretty treacherous
All in all thou it was a good trip, really enjoy driving the car, even after doing a couple of 21 hr stints in it it was still comfortable.
This is not a car that can be slept in. the bolstering on the seats makes it very uncomfortable to try to catch a nap in, tried to curl up across the back seats to no avail, even tried to fold the seat backs down in the back and put my legs in the trunk to no avail
The trip down took the better part of 3 days or 56 hrs of driving time, we hit 2 blizzards and one freezing rain storm that killed any chance of making good time, the trip back took just over 40 hrs of driving time we had fairly good roads for the majority of the trip and even managed to cover 1800 kms the first day with only one bad stretch of road in Northern New Brunswick, and a couple of accidents in Montreal that slowed us down
Not a very good pic but here is the car in Nova Scotia at Peggy's Cove
Dug the car out of it's winter parking spot and took it on a winter road trip
Had a family member pass away on the east coast so my wife and i decided to drive down for the services
4 provinces
3 Time Zones
7995 kms from Manitoba to Nova Scotia and back
mileage seemed to be in the 6.4 - 7.6 l/100 kms depending on the speed limit
And the car just turned over the 55,000 kms mark on the return trip
Engine consumed about 1 litre of oil during the trip
also burned about 14 tanks of fuel
Did the entire trip on the Si Alloy's with the all season tires that came on the car, they have only been on the car in the winter to store the car so they may have had 1000 kms on them before the trip, where the roads were dry they didn't perform bad but when there was snow or black ice on the road it was pretty treacherous
All in all thou it was a good trip, really enjoy driving the car, even after doing a couple of 21 hr stints in it it was still comfortable.
This is not a car that can be slept in. the bolstering on the seats makes it very uncomfortable to try to catch a nap in, tried to curl up across the back seats to no avail, even tried to fold the seat backs down in the back and put my legs in the trunk to no avail
The trip down took the better part of 3 days or 56 hrs of driving time, we hit 2 blizzards and one freezing rain storm that killed any chance of making good time, the trip back took just over 40 hrs of driving time we had fairly good roads for the majority of the trip and even managed to cover 1800 kms the first day with only one bad stretch of road in Northern New Brunswick, and a couple of accidents in Montreal that slowed us down
Not a very good pic but here is the car in Nova Scotia at Peggy's Cove
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