if i went 55km/hr in my patrol id probably get 7lt/100km... that's like 1000rpm

Yeah we are doing the ocean road thing after australia day. Was going to get a nice car....but damn they are expensive! Anyone have any good/cheap (oxymoron?) luxury car rental places in melbourne?

Wifey has an older Getz and it's brilliant, my dad just bought a new one a few months ago and it's quite zippy too.

Yeah we are doing the ocean road thing after australia day. Was going to get a nice car....but damn they are expensive! Anyone have any good/cheap (oxymoron?) luxury car rental places in melbourne?

Some please answer this man's question.

I've never driven the Great Ocean Road, but I have been a passanger for it. Must be almost 10 years ago now I was in the back of Dad's 80's series Cruiser.
Edit: Was 1997, 12 years ago :/

Looks like a Vic High Country trip is on the books for late next year, so maybe we could swing a little ocean road into the trip.

i left melbourne in the morning and went as far as the twelve apostles

How many of them are left standing now? Even when I was down there a few were toppled with quite a few more well on their way.

lol showing your age demon

it's great for the first half an hour

when you have hours of it ahead of you plus a stop at the 12 apostles anyway you can't f*** around or you'll get caught driving it at night and in our case we had to check in at a certain time at the place we were staying so i had to give it a boot when we realised how far we had to go and how much time we had

He just had a hire car for a few days in Adelaide.

We were supposed to get a mid-size but they gave us a large. Ended up being an Camry, auto of course.

I can tell you this, the combination of 4 cylinders, auto and a reasonably large car was bad.

General pottering around was ok but it was pretty crap on the highway needing to drop down to 4th (5 speed auto) gear to tackle any kind of incline sending the tacho to 4,000rpm. While the engine was relatively smooth it wasn't particular quiet at that rpm so 'cruising' at 100-110km/h when any kind of incline was involved was a noisy affair.

In fact the auto box was a piece of s*** all round. Surprising being a new box from a reputable manufacturer.

We used to have the previous gen Camry (but manual) and it was much better, probably due to the manual, I dunno, but this was pretty ordinary. Our 1.6 CRDi has way more guts and cruising ability. I guess it was just a reminder how crap most petrol engines are.

I didn't work out fuel consumption but I guess we did around 400km and used around 35l, so probably around 9l per hundred, mostly country roads.





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General pottering around was ok but it was pretty crap on the highway needing to drop down to 4th (5 speed auto) gear to tackle any kind of incline sending the tacho to 4,000rpm. While the engine was relatively smooth it wasn't particular quiet at that rpm so 'cruising' at 100-110km/h when any kind of incline was involved was a noisy affair.

I'd have to say the same for the Lancer eh.

the highways in Tassie is single lane with the occasional overtaking lane - so we were stuck behind semis most of the time, doing only 80-90 clicks. the car had absolutely bugger all power on the open road, and Launceston bieng a very hilly place really showed up the lack of grunt.

still - it was great on fuel. looking at my earlier estimation.. it prolly was more like 300kms that we did. it wouldn't surprise me if this thing had a range of almost 900kms.. but I doubt it'd be over that.

great on fuel - but piss poor on performance. I guess power = $$$

is there any other way for aircon to be than running?! :D

Current reading:
123Klms (of driving around the streets of Brisbane city)
4.7L/100Klms

Overall:
50,000Klms
5.1L/100Klms

Honda Civic Hybrid that I thrash and surprisingly is nice to drive (this is of cause with air con on everywhere etc).

My lady and I did it ( Great Ocean Road) last year in a new lancer, with those "auto/Manual gearboxes" had a lot of fun driving it, good for the hills and stuff.
Gave it to the car heading back to Melbourne too.

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this is the route we took, was in the pootrol

Hey Jim,


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Can you suggest which way for a two week adventure drive? In regular cars, not offroading, but both good cruisers! Different coloured lines are for different options.

Aside from Nowra -

ahahahahahahahahahahahaha, ahahahahahaha, ahahaha

- why did you skip the south coast of NSW Jim? I'd much rather cruise through Jervis Bay, Ulladulla, Bateman's Bay and Bermagui than visit bloody Canberra.

the strzlecki track is basically a huge dirt highway,

Makes me sad - sadly won't be able to take the two cars on that.

Just looking for any kind of roads you thought were memorable, places which stood out worth seeing.

Chances are the inland road on the way back both to save time and to really get a good cruise speed going.

the highways in Tassie is single lane with the occasional overtaking lane - so we were stuck behind semis most of the time, doing only 80-90 clicks.

koopz old son, i think you were on the wrong roads, when we were in tassie, they were glorious huge highways for hte most part with long sweeping corners that had me wishing i had the skyline there with us

roads in tassie were awesome sauce

teehee
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Cheers Jim!

fun

welcome to victoria, the place to be.

Looks awesome

Would rather be crucified there than drive it in a getz though

nah aye, i was thoroughly impressed with how un-s*** the getz was
drove an accent and a tucson years ago and pronounced all hyundais as heaps of s***, but the 2009 getz and a 2009 i30 diesel has made me reconsider, simply because of their lack of terrible

edit
and what kind of car is that, orbitor?

hardware: this one...

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hardware: this one...

sweet ride

Speaking of Hyundai, is the guy that does the current ads the guy from Rush?

yer, rush, underbelly and he used to do standup with another dude

yer, rush, underbelly and he used to do standup with another dude

Sweet, I knew I was right.

No I can stick it to my wife (not in that way - although that gives me an idea.....) as she said it wasn't.

Great Ocean Rd is certainly on my things to do list.

I'd like to hire an MX5 to do it.

Great Ocean Rd is certainly on my things to do list.

I'd like to hire an MX5 to do it.

QFT

I mentioned this in another thread.

I did have a hunt around for a place in Melbourne that hires them but had no luck. I'm sure there would be some where though. Not that I plan on doing it anytime soon, it's just on the to-do list.

But yeah, you just can't beat Aus.

This is what i reckon, people always want to go overseas before they've even gone interstate. Learn your own culture before pretending you're cultured when you come back from the UK.