Good times, enjoying a beautiful country while driving something new and different. last trip to Italy we had a BMW diesel wagon, my nephew-in-law drives an Alfa Romeo diesel sedan.
We won't see anything like those until the market demands it. Max -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: Did a little road trip around Spain and Portugal the last few days. Rented a Peugeot 508 diesel wagon (had 8km on it when Avis gave it to me) 6spd which was a very nice car and quite roomy. Very nice nav system and graphics built in (I took a Tomtom with Iberian maps, but ended up relying on the Spanish-speaking nav system we called "Peugie"). 4 people and lots of luggage. 2 tanks of fuel in about 9 days of driving, nearly a 1000mi I think, could have been more I will have to look at the receipt. Most every car I saw was a diesel, including lots of Benzes of all sizes from A to S, including some very nice CLS320CDIs and S320CDIs (drool!). Maybe 15% were gassers. Lots of beemers and jap cars too, all diesels. Diesel fuel was the cheapest at about e1.40/ltr give or take, gas another 10-20cents more. Filling the tank was over e70 (ouch). I got pretty good at the manual tranny in some VERY challenging streets in the VERY old hill towns but at one point the clutch was stinking pretty badly (FIIAR). I still wonder why we can't get all these great cars here in the US -- the wagon was getting about 40mpg on the road (if my calculations were close) at 120kph on the Autovia freeways. I want one of those big diesel Benzes. ---R _____________________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
