Social Drive Days in SE Qld

[LibraR]

Running a smidge late!
Be there just before 8.

Then you won't be late... I'll be there at 8:30, maybe a tad earlier

[Gravs]

Thank you LibraR for organising and leading such a great drive day. I had a blast Looking forward to the next one already.

[LibraR]

Thanks Gravs good to see you there. Thanksakso to all those that came along it was a really fun day. The roads weee great but the people really make it! A great bunch of folks I reckon!! Looking forward to seeing a link to the video footage captured by khaotic. I think they may be setting a very high standard for capturing footage of these events 😀

Now to start working on the next one...

[khaotic]

Thanks for the great drive guys! Was a lot of fun, discovered lots of new roads that I will definitely be driving again! Mostly finished editing the video together, just gotta do the final tweaks! Expect the video up tomorrow!

[khaotic]

I take it back, I couldn't sleep unless I finished it tonight Check out the edit I did from today's footage!

[LibraR]

Fantastic video guys! Certainly captured the scenery and awesome roads of the day. Great work!!

[Spinifex]

What an excellent day with some great cars and awesome people.
Nice to see some familiar faces plus some new ones.
And khaotic - nobody is going to bother taking pictures at these events anymore! You're officially expected to work your photographic magic!!! That video is awesome!

HUGE thanks to Jason for organising this yet again.

Skoda represent .... but all on my lonesome

[HPRS230]

What an excellent day with some great cars and awesome people.
Nice to see some familiar faces plus some new ones.
And khaotic - nobody is going to bother taking pictures at these events anymore! You're officially expected to work your photographic magic!!! That video is awesome!

HUGE thanks to Jason for organising this yet again.

Skoda represent .... but all on my lonesome

Next time Ill give ya a run for ya money Spinifex....

[Creampuff]

Not my kind of music but, that looked great! hope I can make the next one.

[Gravs]

cheers for making and posting that video, i enjoyed that a lot

[Spinifex]

Interesting info: proof that the "Eco" mode button is pure w@nk-factor and is really not that achievable in reality..... I've been driving around for the last few tanks of fuel in Eco mode. Mix of town and highway driving, but no real "spirited" driving - best I've managed is around 8.3L/100 mark. That's without A/C, always premium 98.

Absolutely caning around the mountains on this cruise (totally within legal limits of course ), in normal Drive mode for the long easy sweeping high-speed stuff, and Sport for the fanging twisty mountain stuff..... and my economy is sitting at 8.7L/100 !!!

Absolutely expected well into the 9's or higher..... just goes to show how well these engines perform "economically", even at high output.

[LibraR]

Interesting info: proof that the "Eco" mode button is pure w@nk-factor and is really not that achievable in reality..... I've been driving around for the last few tanks of fuel in Eco mode. Mix of town and highway driving, but no real "spirited" driving - best I've managed is around 8.3L/100 mark. That's without A/C, always premium 98.

Absolutely caning around the mountains on this cruise (totally within legal limits of course ), in normal Drive mode for the long easy sweeping high-speed stuff, and Sport for the fanging twisty mountain stuff..... and my economy is sitting at 8.7L/100 !!!

Absolutely expected well into the 9's or higher..... just goes to show how well these engines perform "economically", even at high output.

There is a moral in this... along the lines of "go hard or go home..." That is impressive economy for the day we just had... I guess it would have climbed higher if we had strayed outside the law... 😎

[Spinifex]

There is a moral in this... along the lines of "go hard or go home..." That is impressive economy for the day we just had... I guess it would have climbed higher if we had strayed outside the law... 

If I had AWD and bigger kahunas, it certainly would have increased!

I honestly don't know why the RS isn't AWD by default. It's the "sports car" of the range.... the Superb is a family car.
Yes, 206kw makes sense in the Superb because it's a bigger car... but the RS should really be the fire-breathing stonking AWD screamer, equivalent to the Golf R.
Unfortunately Skoda have done their marketing/model lineup a bit backwards.

Still love my car though....

[LibraR]

If I had AWD and bigger kahunas, it certainly would have increased!

I honestly don't know why the RS isn't AWD by default. It's the "sports car" of the range.... the Superb is a family car.
Yes, 206kw makes sense in the Superb because it's a bigger car... but the RS should really be the fire-breathing stonking AWD screamer, equivalent to the Golf R.
Unfortunately Skoda have done their marketing/model lineup a bit backwards.

Still love my car though....

Seemed to get along OK from what I could see...

[khaotic]

Glad you guys liked the vid! Looking like I'll get my CC in the next few days, so might head out for another drive this weekend. Any recommendations? If I don't get any other suggestions, plan is to basically follow where we went last weekend, because they were some wicked roads!