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and it's just not the same without the B. I took the new car up to the top of Angeles Crest, and found they shut it down pretty quickly after that ranch/restaurant back in there... you LA folks prolly know what i'm talking about.
Anyways, it was a fun drive, but there was a LOT more traffic in those mountains than I'm use to, and that's because there's still about 2 to 3 feet of snow on the ground up above 5000ft of elevation. So everyone and they're entire family was going up there to play in the snow... I hung out at the top for a while with a co-worker, and played with some of the gadgets my car came with. I found it has an altimeter in the Nav unit, and it's pretty accurate.
It was kind of trippy to me. It was 64F and all this snow every where and hardly any of it was melting. Well, hardly any of it was getting the road wet. There was plenty of wet spots, but with the amount of snow I saw and the temps as they were I would have expected the roads to have been soaked.
Either way, it was a hoot, and I'd MUCH rather see 3 ft of snow in 64F temps than seeing it in temps that it takes to make it! One thing I noticed and though kind of funny was that the mountain faces that are predominantly in shadow had much more snow on them than the faces that saw more sunlight.
As far as driving the twisties went, the new car seems sure footed enough, but I really didn't want to test just how sure footed it was. There were a couple of favorite roads of mine in the mountains that weren't clogged with snow oglers (thanks to the lack of snow in those valleys), and I opened the Lancer up a bit. It surprised me how quickly it gained speed, and really got to experience what all this new valve technology is like. My Lancer has Mitsubishi's new "MIVEC" 2.0L engine, and around 4K RPM the valve timing changes quite a bit. If you have your foot in the right position, it feels like someone slapped another 4 cylinders on the car. It's kind of neat, but a bit odd to feel the power spike like that without a turbo, and definitely surprising if you're expecting to feel a smooth power curve.
The new car is turning out to be fun, but it's no MGB, and it's just impossible for a FWD car to be as fun as any rear drive car, especially compared to the way I had my B handling.
There's one thing I gotta say, I thought I never needed ... well, I probably still don't "NEED" it ... A/C in any of my cars, but now that I have it... boy do I ~LIKE~ having it... especially with the "set it and forget it controls" /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
Anyways, it was a fun drive, but there was a LOT more traffic in those mountains than I'm use to, and that's because there's still about 2 to 3 feet of snow on the ground up above 5000ft of elevation. So everyone and they're entire family was going up there to play in the snow... I hung out at the top for a while with a co-worker, and played with some of the gadgets my car came with. I found it has an altimeter in the Nav unit, and it's pretty accurate.
It was kind of trippy to me. It was 64F and all this snow every where and hardly any of it was melting. Well, hardly any of it was getting the road wet. There was plenty of wet spots, but with the amount of snow I saw and the temps as they were I would have expected the roads to have been soaked.
Either way, it was a hoot, and I'd MUCH rather see 3 ft of snow in 64F temps than seeing it in temps that it takes to make it! One thing I noticed and though kind of funny was that the mountain faces that are predominantly in shadow had much more snow on them than the faces that saw more sunlight.
As far as driving the twisties went, the new car seems sure footed enough, but I really didn't want to test just how sure footed it was. There were a couple of favorite roads of mine in the mountains that weren't clogged with snow oglers (thanks to the lack of snow in those valleys), and I opened the Lancer up a bit. It surprised me how quickly it gained speed, and really got to experience what all this new valve technology is like. My Lancer has Mitsubishi's new "MIVEC" 2.0L engine, and around 4K RPM the valve timing changes quite a bit. If you have your foot in the right position, it feels like someone slapped another 4 cylinders on the car. It's kind of neat, but a bit odd to feel the power spike like that without a turbo, and definitely surprising if you're expecting to feel a smooth power curve.
The new car is turning out to be fun, but it's no MGB, and it's just impossible for a FWD car to be as fun as any rear drive car, especially compared to the way I had my B handling.
There's one thing I gotta say, I thought I never needed ... well, I probably still don't "NEED" it ... A/C in any of my cars, but now that I have it... boy do I ~LIKE~ having it... especially with the "set it and forget it controls" /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
