This is what we had to drive home in yesterday (430 miles total airport to airport, then a taxi home):
A “Jeep Grand Cherokee”, though there’s not much grand about it! First thing that happened when I climbed up and in to it was I hit my knee on the dash – for such a huge vehicle, there’s not much room in it … worse still when Margaret drove partway home, she had to be so close to the wheel to reach the pedals (and you can’t lower the seat) that her knees were on the dash under the wheel. I’d have hated to see the airbags go off while she was driving 😦
Driving highway the whole way, with very little traffic except near the George Washington bridge in New York, and not exceeding 80, the car managed 18mpg according to its trip display – Wow!
What bothered me most though was it’s handling … of course it’s nothing like a MINI, but driving a couple of on-ramps at nothing like MINI speeds, it still seemed to lose touch with the ground and “lurch” sideways when there was a bump in the curve. Very disconcerting.
Of course it did take all our luggage – but so would the MINI since there’s only two of us.
Happily, I am now back in GBMINI, waiting for me when we got home last night – and many thanks Pat & Dave for clearing our driveway & paths 🙂
M&I / GBMINI 