Me too. The mk2 FL still looks great from B pillars back to my eyes. Don't like the rear door handles on mk3.
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Get the sc and it has no rear handles
To be honest, it could be purple with lime green stripes and I'd still say its the best FWD car I've ever driven. You don't need to justify your choice of colour, just enjoy it ;-)
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I love that road from glencoe to fort bill, but I've only ever drove along it in a van loaded with gear after racing the SDA there last year lol
Do you ride DH mate?
I love the way that one minute it is comfortable sedate family car and the next a hooligan tool that can be driven like you stole it.
OK, 1000 miles in, time for an update :
1) I was supporting Gee Atherton and Manon Carpenter so Fort William wasn't great from that point of view, but the weather was mostly excellent, I'm partial to Tennents and I don't have a nasty reaction to midge bites, so...
2) A long run (570 mile round trip) on a good mix of roads was a fair efficiency test. With two chunky blokes and what must have been 100kg of kit, we got 350 miles out of a tank of regular unleaded, which is way better than I ever managed in the Mk2 LCR (despite the Mk3 having a smaller tank). Until we hit the motorway at Stirling on the way back, the predicted total range was 400 miles and I've got no reason to doubt it.
3) Seriously, the number of steps you have to go through to shuffle an SD card's-worth of music is silly. It's like they designed the media interface but forgot that the people using it are going to be driving at the time.
4) Curious to know if anyone else has experienced this, there's a definite lumpy patch in the mapping at part throttle between 2-3000 revs. It's more noticeable in Comfort.
5) So they included a "Lower mirror when reversing" option but forgot to check it worked? Clever.
Doesn't sound like you're enjoying the car ?
The 'lower mirror while reversing' option needs to be set up, basically, while in reverse put mirror to where you want it then come out of reverse and it 'should' go back to normal
Ahh, so I should have RTFM
What seems to happen is, selecting reverse changes nothing until the mirror adjuster is moved to "L", whereupon the left mirror moves to some predetermined position, which is ideal for reversing near kerbs.
Selecting a forward gear then doesn't move the mirror back until the adjuster is moved out of "L".
Yes, the selector needs to be on the side you want to move
Think it moves back to normal if you drive forward
OK, 1000 miles in, time for an update :
2) A long run (570 mile round trip) on a good mix of roads was a fair efficiency test. With two chunky blokes and what must have been 100kg of kit, we got 350 miles out of a tank of regular unleaded, which is way better than I ever managed in the Mk2 LCR (despite the Mk3 having a smaller tank). Until we hit the motorway at Stirling on the way back, the predicted total range was 400 miles and I've got no reason to doubt it