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With our tanks back to full, and having given a wedding party plenty of time to take pictures in front of the car, it was back out of the highway. Running down the entrance ramps in this machine is just fantastic. The combination of 12 cylinders in a car that weights less than Kate Moss is a near perfect package. The fact that the brakes actually work as soon as you get a bit of heat into them is an added bonus.
The sun was right over head by now and both of us had started to pick up a nice tan. Traffic was still light to non existent so forward progress continued at a respectable clip. 80 kilometers down the road we entered a kilometer long tunnel. Speed in the tunnel was restricted to 100km, so we dropped down to 3 gear, ran the rpms up to a bit over 5000, and announced our presence to any fellow motorist within ten miles. The echo was earth rattling. Exiting the tunnel, Mini Me turned to me and declared that this was the car he wanted when he got his drivers license.
After one last fuel and food stop, the rest of the journey went quickly, the only other incident of note happened while crawling across large suspension bridge near the end . We had several conversations and plenty of thumbs up from other slow moving motorists. All in, a great drive on a beautiful day, in a car who's capabilities are far in excess of mine.
The sun was right over head by now and both of us had started to pick up a nice tan. Traffic was still light to non existent so forward progress continued at a respectable clip. 80 kilometers down the road we entered a kilometer long tunnel. Speed in the tunnel was restricted to 100km, so we dropped down to 3 gear, ran the rpms up to a bit over 5000, and announced our presence to any fellow motorist within ten miles. The echo was earth rattling. Exiting the tunnel, Mini Me turned to me and declared that this was the car he wanted when he got his drivers license.
After one last fuel and food stop, the rest of the journey went quickly, the only other incident of note happened while crawling across large suspension bridge near the end . We had several conversations and plenty of thumbs up from other slow moving motorists. All in, a great drive on a beautiful day, in a car who's capabilities are far in excess of mine.
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