I had my first decent trip out in Arnie today to Leigh in Lancashire, a round trip of about 150 miles. There's not really much that Leigh is famous for, but it does have the worlds largest Indian food making factory,
Pataks and it has 7 x Premiership football clubs within easy reach of it (The Mighty Blackburn Rovers, Bolton, Wigan, Everton, Liverpool, Man City and The Scum, sorry Manure, sorry Man Utd).
So what can i tel you about my trip ? Well Arnie ran faultlessly and returned 30.1 mpg (not sure if thats good or not. I would rather it was 35 mpg, but we'll see when he's run in).
I had the good fortune to park next to an brand new E-Class Merc at my meeting and I have a few observations to make.
My cars better than your car nah, ne, nah, ne, nah, nah.
Seriously the Merc looked like Arnies malnourished, anaemic, puny younger brother. I loved it, it was great to compare like with like.
When the meeting was over I had 8 people (who'd been in the meeting with me) crawling over Arnie and argueing about "what" he was. 1/2 thougght he was a Bentley & 1/2 thought that he was a Roller. Noone thought he was a Chrysler and noone would accept he was a Chrysler when I told them.
The kicker is (& I really, really loved this bit), not a single one would accept that the car was mine. It took a full minute of me trying to persuade them that it was before I pulled out my keys and got in. Laugh ? I nearly bought a round of drinks !
& to see the face on the poor Merc guy who had spent £40k on a brand new silver,( surprise, surprise) Eclass that never warranted a second look - it was as Barclaycard would say - priceless.
one thing I have noticed though in my few days of arnie ownership - it's a lot harder finding someone to let you out of a side street/parking place than it was with my Rover 75. The wrong sort of envy perhaps ?
MTC
