LTM

Question for people who bought there car new, have you/are you noticing that your average fuel economy is going down? For the first 1,000 - 1,500 k's my average fuel economy would sit around 12.5-13L and you would be doing really good if it would sit at around 12.4. Now I'm noticing its sitting around 12-12.5L even going down to around averaging 11.5 on the drive to work (Adelaide roads at 5:30am). Even got it down to 10.6 L

Stock 2014 manual FG mk2 XR6T. Sits about 13L per 100k on an average week (get stuck in a fair amount of traffic on the way home from work). On the weekend can get it down to 12.4-12.8L

Picked mine up on Thursday night. Loving it!

Apparently mine is due this week (April 9th) but know my luck work will get busy and I wont be able to pick it up till the weekend.

Hey Karl.

New to the forum. Currently waiting on delivery of a white, manual, FG Mk2 Turbo. Live in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, but work in Regency Park. Good places to learn.

Tilt truck driver (essentially a HR Tow truck) for an access company.

I've made my fiance drive it. So now I'm driving her Mazda 6 (manual, turbo diesel).

No but the loan car isn't a very nice one. Someone else's trade in, a Dihatsu Terios with 220,XXX on the the clock.

I apologised to be the bigger man.Also, catch more flies with sugar then vinegar.

Got a very similar situation with a sour outcome. Dec 28th The Fiance and I went into a dealer as they had the 2013 plate clearance and placed and order for White, Manual XR6T and got them to throw in a towbar. Got our own finance sorted, bit of back and forth. Eventually salesman gets back to me and does the good news, bad news thing. So a 2014 FG Mk2 XR6T was order (in white, with manual, no other extra's). That was January 8th-ish. Was told to expect delivery mid-Feb. Which then turned into late Feb. Which turned into manufactured end of Feb. After a bit of stuffing around with the dealer (not returning calls etc) on 19th Feb went in and had a loan car organised through them (mine had been stolen while waiting for the XR6). Was told then that car would be 2nd week of March no matter what. Pick loan car up about a week later, get transfer to another salesman as the one I did the deal with got promoted to new car manager. Get told that car will be 3rd week of March. Start of March I call to find out whats going on, get an SMS back saying "...Car to be manufactured end of March...". Ring new salesman and voice my disappointment and frustration. Ring new car manager the next day, get into an argument. Told if I didn't like it, he would cancel my order (remember, this is the salesman that I originally signed with). Cool down after a few days (long weekend). Confirm order with the new salesman after long weekend, ring new car manager and leave a message on voice mail apologizing (and never hear back). Sorry for the long read, but that's the short version. From start of process, today marks 12 weeks. Looking at possibly another 2 weeks (hopefully)