Well having 1650km on the clock now, I was wondering if any Aus owners have run in the car yet and if so does it feel any faster after 2000km ?

 

About 2300/2400 now... no faster.
Am going for a road trip to canberra this weekend so will end up clocking heaps more k's

 

Thanks Ozzie for that. I was hoping to hear that it gets faster , but I'm just being greedy

 

the road trip was great.. about 4k kms on the odo now. got up to 200km/hr a few times, no problem at all.. managed to time one run - 100-200 km, 16.6 seconds... i dont really know how this compares to other cars! it certainly felt quick anyway... the overtaking capacity of this car is sooooo much better than its 0-100 ability... 3rd gear at 100 is fantabulous...

 

by the way am i the only one who has been slightly disappointed by fuel econmoy? ive been managing about 8 kms/litre combined city/freeway.

the best freeway consumption is pretty good tho... u can do 12.5 by keeping it about 100 in 6th, i average about 11.2 on the trip, thats including going thru albury-woddonga and some other towns and a fair few high rpm runs and overtakes...

 

I will keep 16.6 sec in mind for when i get a chance to compare
As for fuel consumption, I average around 8 kms/litre as well. In fact haven't bettered it yet.........maybe less right foot would help.
Got 2000km on the clock now

Where are my keys.......

 

Wow... you guys have driven the car A LOT already... I have only got nearly 1400 on the clock since 14th of Feb, 2003.... Where about did you guys go to make so much milage?

Good to see you guys enjoy your cars!!

cheers,

richie

 

round and round and round and round.............

 

and round and to canberra and back
are people still enjoying the attention they get? im getting to a point where i feel a bit awkward and dont know where to look...

 

I know how you feel Ozzie, its great how the car creates so much attention, enjoy it, can't last for ever. I'm up to 1600k in nearly two weeks, its such a dam good drive, I love it!!!

 

Got mine for 3 weeks, got 3000 km on it. I just drive it around all day long (luckily I haven't got anything else to do, he he he).

Yesterday I saw another Z at a crossing near where I live. It was a Le Mans Sunset coloured one, couldn't tell whether Track or Touring. I was going the other way so I couldn't get a good look at either car, driver, model nor number plate, but the sighting came as a shock... "Z-lander.. there can be only one!"

Fuel consumption amounts to <8 km/L in city cycle, but >11km/L on country drives with lots of 6th gear driving. On my last full tank I did 665 km (literally drove on the very last drop!!), and after I fully filled it up again it said DTE 666 km! Was quite a scary experience, to run about 30 km in the middle of *&^$# nowhere with the DTE display blinking on zero (looks a bit like this: DTE _ _ _ _ ).

Assuming the total fuel capacity is 75 L (people with the tech specs handy, please correct me), I'm thus doing 8.9 km/L in average, which corresponds amazingly accurately to the agerage 11.3 L/100 km consumption displayed on the energy rating sticker on the showroom Z. (If I recall this figure correctly)

I'm past my 2000 km break-in period, so I have occasionally taken it to 6000 rpm, just to see what it's like. Does the car in general feel any faster than before... certainly not. I am getting more used to it and thus operate it a bit more smoothly... yes. Doing a couple of overtake manoevres, I can report that the car keeps pulling nicely at the higher revs. Example: Doing about 100 km/h in 4th gear, and then flooring it to get past someone quickly. It is possible to quickly get to about 180 km/h in 4th gear without redlining it.

In 6th gear, 220 km/h is about 5500 rpm if I remember correctly (I was busy keeping the car on the road and I wanted to live to tell). I still had my shift-warning LED set to 4000 rpm, and from about 160 km/h onward it felt like "running out of gears" because the 4000 rpm warning LED set in and I instinctively kept trying to change into a higher gear. I have since increased the RPM setting for this pesky LED to 4500 rpm