My B 200 is built!

[Derek Lecours]

Originally Posted by CA-B200

Congratulations!

Mike, Our feeling are the same. Congratulations!!

And now can you share your first impressions with us?

[Mike Tee]

Thanks for the good wishes!

We've had the car on the road for 900 km now, and I love it. It is great in nearly every way.

The manual gearbox is amazingly smooth-shifting. The torque is huge, for pulling the car up hills in top gear that would require my smart (admittedly with 40 HP) to shift down to 5th. I would imagine the Turbo is far more of the same. For me, the basic 2 L engine is perfect!

The sunroof is fabulous as are the heated seats.

The steering is light but has decent feel once at speed. It's like steering a Cadillac at low speed, almost too easy.

I will write more when I have more time......still recovering from the long drive and sleep deprivation last weekend.

[jtcb]

Looking nice so far..

Who is hiding at the back?

You have a BC license plate. Where about are you in BC/Vancouver? Interested in a B meet?

[Mike Tee]

Originally Posted by jtcb

Who is hiding at the back?

... Interested in a B meet?

That's one of my three kids, Julia. Jenn was driving when I took this shot from our Peugeot.

Yes, I'm interested in a meet. I'll be in Vancouver the weekend coming up. Or the Island would be good too....

[jtcb]

Next weekend sounds good to me. Is it Remembance Day long weekend next Monday or Saturday? Saturday meet is best for me though.. I wish there are more Vancouver B owners here so we can have a bigger meet.

[Mike Tee]

Monday is the stat. Saturday I have a family event to go to from noon to 5 PM, but I could be into a coffee etc after that. Send me a PM for contact info....

[Mike Tee]

The lifetime fuiel consumption is 7.3 L/100 km since the car was built, according to the BordComputer. That's 39 Imperial MPG. I am pleased with that, even if it's 5% optimistic (as my first fill indicated that it might be).

[Derek Lecours]

Mike, a while ago I estimated a realistic average would be 6.7 to 7.1 L/100km. I still feel that way, even though we babied it to 5.8 on a test. Time will tell.

[bestjsg]

Originally Posted by MikeT.

The lifetime fuiel consumption is 7.3 L/100 km since the car was built, according to the BordComputer. That's 39 Imperial MPG. I am pleased with that, even if it's 5% optimistic (as my first fill indicated that it might be).

oh...mine have been averaging some 10.5x L/100 km with mix of highway and local according to the boardcomputer....7.3 is really really good..

[Mike Tee]

I am driving it quite gently, with the occasional burst to 4500 rpm when the engine is warm. The car has 1200 km on it now. But I will continue to drive it this way, so I hope to get the overall L/100 to where Derek says it can be, wihich would be fantastic, and better than I would have expected.