Sort of feel like I'm selling out, but as I've said elsewhere, we're not using the Audi at all and we're using the P38 all the time, most recently last week, we took the P38 for a weeks holiday on the south coast (500 trouble-free miles).
A few weeks ago, I had a Ducati show to go to, so we towed the bike around all of the Sunday, then I drove up to Coventry to drop it off to be tuned properly. Looking at the stressed guys nose to tail in the right-hand lane, I decided that I didn't want to be doing that anymore and was happier cruising in the RR. Just wanted something with fewer miles on and less of an ongoing project.
So, I got this:
It's a 2004, 48,000 miles with Prinz Lpg fitted a year ago. I checked everything I was told to and everything works perfectly. Passed it's MoT last week with just an advisory for the cracked indicator lens just visible in the pic (replacement supplied by the previous owner - I fitted it
). It's got more stuff than I'll ever need, hugely competent. No tow hitch tho.
Driving it, mixed feelings. There's an element of driving a classic in the P38 - it's an occasion. But this L322 is a little clinical. Everything works too well. The motor has loads more torque than the P38 and that makes it feel lighter and is much more usable, but you don't feel the car in quite the same way. No problems so far, except that I don't know how to use the sat-nav and you need to put your foot on the brake to move the gear lever - massively embarassing few minutes in a car park
I always tell the boys that the P38 was designed by a bunch of old British guys in a shed wearing jumpers, smoking pipes and drinking cups of tea.
A few weeks ago, I had a Ducati show to go to, so we towed the bike around all of the Sunday, then I drove up to Coventry to drop it off to be tuned properly. Looking at the stressed guys nose to tail in the right-hand lane, I decided that I didn't want to be doing that anymore and was happier cruising in the RR. Just wanted something with fewer miles on and less of an ongoing project.
So, I got this:
It's a 2004, 48,000 miles with Prinz Lpg fitted a year ago. I checked everything I was told to and everything works perfectly. Passed it's MoT last week with just an advisory for the cracked indicator lens just visible in the pic (replacement supplied by the previous owner - I fitted it
). It's got more stuff than I'll ever need, hugely competent. No tow hitch tho.Driving it, mixed feelings. There's an element of driving a classic in the P38 - it's an occasion. But this L322 is a little clinical. Everything works too well. The motor has loads more torque than the P38 and that makes it feel lighter and is much more usable, but you don't feel the car in quite the same way. No problems so far, except that I don't know how to use the sat-nav and you need to put your foot on the brake to move the gear lever - massively embarassing few minutes in a car park
I always tell the boys that the P38 was designed by a bunch of old British guys in a shed wearing jumpers, smoking pipes and drinking cups of tea.
The Sport button? No-one will ever need that, so we'll put it out of the way under the handbrake.
The new one is much more like a car. Very Germanic. Very efficient. Properly special, objectively better than the P38, but somehow subjectively, not as special as the P38.
