Victoria- the place to be????......Not sure on that

[Ibrox90]

So on the weekend i took the XR8 to Melbourne (from Adelaide). Few points on the car and my thoughts on Vic and Melbourne.

XR8:

The car was great never missed a beat apart from a slight vibration from an out wheel balance and a mechanical failure 50kms from home on the way back.

Good:
Over taking power so accessable without using the kick down.. and when you do use kickdown the acceleration from 100 to ...... :evil3: is unbelievable.

car held the road really well.. I took the back road through the twistys in the Adelaide Hills to get to the freeway and suspenison in this enviroment is good.

Fuel economy was impressive over the 1600km round trip I used on average 10L/per100km (computer reading) and was getting OVER 550kms per tank (from the odometer) thats cruising at 110 (then 100 in vic stupid speed limit) with the occasional blast to certain speeds when i opened the taps.

BAD:

Within an hour in the car my back was killing me.. Not sure if this issu e extends to the rest of the XR owners or to other trim (i have leather not sure if its on the cloth trim) i had several pillows to help the problem but the back was still killing me. neurofen "back pain" is a god send.

Suspension is solid over the western freeway there was a few times wher ei thought the XR would bottom out. Secondly after a bump the suspension seems tro occilate after the bump liek its still vibrating.

Victoria and Melbourne:

Good:

Krispy Kremes *DROOL* we dont have them in Adelaide (clearly because having a Krispy Kreme donut in one hand AND a Farmers Union iced coffee in the other would be a state of ectasy that would be unfair on the other states LOL.

Shops being open past 5pm. SA is old fashioned in this repect.

Both good and bad the public transport system owns Adelaides easier to use services run longer and more often.

more to do more attractions all within the CBD
while in Melbourne there was never a dull boring "what should we do now moment" aand all easily acessable via public transport.

BAD: (perpare yourselves)
(FYI Ive lived in the UK in busy cities like Glasgow and London and also Sydney so its not my hatred of busy)

HOOK TURNS WHAT THE COMPLELTY RIDICULOUS
plus if your gunna make hook turns make them all hook turns not a select few.

only 3 things belong on a road automobiles (cars, trucks etc), motorbikes and civilians brave enough. Trams are old and ridiculous and some of them are from 1920's the UK ditiched trams decades ago ive seen trams in museums younger than those in melbourne.

You all refuse to do the speed limit
while i understand that traffic conditons sometimes dictate slower speeds, when theres a dry road few cars and South Australians going by you at the speed limit (100kmh) probably time to take the hint.

Everything in melbourne seems like an after thought like tramstops and new shopping development etc etc. In my opinon the development is going faster than the infastructure that can support it.

the best ways I can discribe it is Syndey is like a nice relaid road smooth and a complete plan. Melbourne is the same road year son but new power lines and drainage and lord knows what else are now under the road and the road is now just a sea of patch up jobs and temporay fixes.

Vics seems to be rather rude.

walking down the street in Adelaide frequently you find your self in front of people moving left to right because your both being polite and trying to get out of somones way usually ending in a laughing apology. Doesnt happen in Vic walking down the street I noticed that you all don't look where your going or are so stuck up and dont care. Walking along the street I told my missus of my observation and we both agreed lets see what happens if we don't move. Within moments a girl roughly 19-22 bounces off my missus and nearly gets taken out. less than 20 steps after a guy around 25-30 rattles off me. while i understand what we did was rude just shows that you wont move at all.

I understand why SA cars sell for higher prices we have sweet traffic and its all highways stuff compared to your stop start.

the verdict:

XR8
good over distance love it

Victoria....

well lets just say the SA slogans say it all......"SA, HEAPS GOOD" "SA GREAT"

P.s Truckies are ridiculous they the road goes to 2 lanes then 1 then 2 and so on the whole way up the freeway and on the 2 lane stretches they get level with your rear wheels and then dont yeild nearly taking you out (until you open up the V8 ofcourse

P.s.s Im only commenting on what I saw dont mean to tar you all with the same brush.