Driving Impressions

[Guest exr6]

I'm the same as you guys. My dealer still does not have a demo Turbo.

So I will drive onr for the first time when I pick mine up!

[Guest cralli]

I hadn't even seen an XR6 when I ordered my Turbo. First drive was last night...if the keepers of the public wellbeing ever find out how much fun this thing is........

[Guest He|mut]

  Turbo-6 said:

Despite having the seat in its lowest position, I still feel that I am sitting too high in the car. Other than that, everything else is pretty much perfect.

I agree with you there. But I can definitely see myself getting used to it...after a while it actually felt a lot better than my VX seating posi (only got to test drive an xr6)

[len]

I took delivery of an XR6T, blueprint, 18" wheels, premium sound and a few other minor extras on Friday at 5.30 pm.

Drove it out of the dealer show room straight into a traffic jam which lasted an hour (stop-start all the way). To top it off, it started to rain. Durng the journey home I was following a truck for part of the way, and the truck wheels sprayed dirty road water all over my previously shiny gleaming car. In the mean time I was itching to speed up and generally see how my new machine performed. I ended up going all the way home at a snail's pace with a dirty car. It had only done 30Km. A sad story!!! I cleaned the car as soon as I got home, and it was restored back to it's previous glory.

BUT the next 2 days (the weekend) was a totally different story. My impressions of the car after the weekend (400km down the track) are .....

- Drives fantastic, sticks to the road like glue

- Looks fantastic. When you see other drivers at the traffic lights, etc, etc, continually looking at it (particularily the 18" wheels), it feels great

- Handles great... good turning circle

- Drove to the local football match on the weekend... you should have seen all the people turn around and look at the car.

- We were parked at the local shop on Sunday and some guy (around 30 years old) and his wife drove up and parked beside us. Well the guy gets out of his car walks all around the XR6T, inspects it, drools over it for a minute or two, saying to his wife how good it looks. Finally his wife tells him to pull himself together and get back in the car.

- The power is incredible... you've only need to touch the accelerator and you can pretty well drag anything else off... The acceleration is like a 747 taking off

- Hills no longer exist.. quarter throttle is more than enough to fly up any hill

- The ride is comfortable. The inside is great, plenty of room

- The sound the engine makes is like music, particularily when the turbo starts to cut it.

My wife reckons that I'm obsessed with the car. Strange since the last time I felt this way was many years ago when I owned a hotted up early model Holden.

Well there you have it