Porsche £500 bangernomics

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26mpg average for motorway miles? That’s worse than my 944 s2 used to get. Aren’t you going to have spent more than the purchase price of the car in fuel on this one trip alone (I think you might be north of £200 already?)Y

I also have an old diesel Berlingo that does 50+ mpg but I’d rather pay double the fuel bill and use the comfortable Cayenne instead! You can fly to Prague for £30 so it’s a moot point anyway.

The diesel 957 Cayenne does low/mid 30’s mpg but they are a lot more expensive to buy and you have the added cost of fragile EGR/turbos/HPFP/injector’s. A new diesel Grenadier does low 20’s mpg, the petrol sub 20’s.

……and remember – this is a dinosaur of a car in an age of EV’s. but it only cost £500 so if I spend a few quid more on fuel I’m still well in pocket.

Heading home now but it’s nearly the 20th birthday for our Porsche so we called in at its birthplace on the way past!

The Leipzig plant was built specifically to build Cayennes. The bodyshells were made in Slovakia but Porsche then shipped them to Germany for completion.

The visitors experience (and factory) were closed for Christmas but security were cool with us taking photos (despite the signs saying strictly otherwise)

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so it’s a moot point anyway.

I’m a big fan on not buying new stuff every time something better comes along. Might bea somehow lingering, inherited mend and make do mentality.

The chassis on my 2011 Transit is still looking surprisingly decent (thanks to some work done by Preserve & Protect that gets an annual top up which was £160 last year, and I regularly inspect and treat everything I can find). Although I’ll be cutting some pieces of the sills out and welding (neighbour, retired, used to work doing bodywork repairs) patches from replacement sills back in. Think I have 2x10cm patches that are getting a bit thin. Few other things I’m going to start maintaining myself rather than spending £50p/h.

Back home – dropped MIL off just now after spending 40 hours in the car with her! (actually she’s really great fun and up for adventures like this)

Covered 1867.5miles to Prague and back in total. Averaged at 25.5mpg – please don’t work out the fuel bill I don’t want to know!

The only issues were a failed side light bulb which I didn’t get round to changing and a failed H7 highbeam (it has 4), other than that it was as sure footed, capable and comfortable as usual. An awesome car……..and especially for £500.

It’s going to have a well earned rest and clean before it continues its tinkering sessions and adventures.

Covered 1867.5miles to Prague and back in total. Averaged at 25.5mpg – please don’t work out the fuel bill I don’t want to know!

If it involves getting on the very next train, it cost you less in fuel than getting 4 people from London to Sheffield and back by rail today.

}thumbs up emoji{ #stayawesome

Your MiL looks reasonably happy… 🙂

Bert wasn’t happy about dropping MIL off at her house as he knew the adventure was coming to an end! He wouldn’t get out of the car at our house although that might be due to reasons like this!*

* Prague hotel charged €40 per night for a dog and didn’t provide anything extra. The Leipzig hotel was €15 per night and provided bowls, nice sleeping mat, high quality treats (the products were local / German and had promotional/sales literature with them). Hence Bert got his occasional €40 worth.