murph7355
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And now the good bit (excl. the length of this post)...I just collected this!
It's the HR Owen car. Gearbox aside, the rest of the spec grabbed me - it's all but perfect. I then started to convince myself that not having any clutch replacement costs and having something a bit more stealthy when needed (neighbours, MrsMurph) may well outweigh my gearbox preference (my opinion remains that the MC Shift is a sharper drive, even if by only a little bit having had more of a play in this).
It's Grigio Alfieri - the first GT (an S) I went to see was this colour and I loved it then as I do now. It picks up surrounding colours as could be seen from the HRO photos and also these quickly grabbed photos. It definitely doesn't look lilac (unless sat next to a pink car)!
The carbon on the exterior goes really well with the colour. Which is fortunate as there's plenty of it including the "diffuser", sills, front "splitter" and the exhaust shrouds. I like the carbon packs on GTs - the cars look a bit more aggressive with them, slightly less grown up which is what I was after
Astros - hated them on the black car I almost bought, thinking they looked too small. These aren't black but anthracite which might help, but I suspect it's the body colour that makes the biggest difference. I think they look great and won't be needing to change them for Neptunes.
Inside there's plenty more carbon and lots of alcantara. The interior really feels a good couple of notches above any other I've sat in and really sealed it for me. The GT has a lovely cabin anyway, and the colour combination of this one along with the soft touch of the alcantara make it a special place to sit.
The drive home was a good one to get used to the car and play with the 'box. I tended to find myself using a gear lower (numerically) than I probably would in an old school manual...not sure whether it was psychological but the shift seemed to be sharper that way (possibly the gearing of the auto at play?). Having a traditional auto made the initial leg of the journey through London a breeze, though kick down on cold Pirellis is to be avoided...(I'll blame buses and white vans).
The infotainment is clumsy, but to be honest not as horrendous as I'd set myself up for. The satnav got me home just fine, taking a sensible route. Will just have to get used to noting down the street I need as well as the postcode. Key locations I've simply stored and set up voice tags for (now I just need to learn how to use them!).
The stereo sounds good to my ears. Quality wise it's up there with the premium audio I had in my Aston though doesn't go quite as loud (not a problem for me). The speed that files are copied to the Jukebox is tragic (about 1Gb per hour for the first lot I've put up), but I'm regarding that as a one time hit. Having read up on the system I sorted out the naming of files to suit what I would use most when looking for music to play and it seems to work nicely. To be honest though I'll probably continue to listen to Talksport 90% of the time
One thing I neglected to test when picking the car up, and should have with hindsight, is the memory setting for the driver's seat (comfort seats only have this on the driver's side, don't they?). I cannot make this work at all! The seat moves fully, the passenger mirror dips on reverse to the position I set, the steering wheel gets out of the way when I open the door and returns to the last position used when I start up/put the key in, but the memory buttons do nothing.
Also, the driver's seat doesn't whirr forwards when I tilt the seat back forwards, so I suspect there's a fault in the seat somewhere....? (Passenger seat does this OK). This'll be slightly annoying to have to take the car in for, but other than that it's bloody fantastic
MrsMurph loves it too, as does MiniMurph #1 (#2 being too young to have an opinion).
More playing tomorrow, including careful testing of whether it will go up my drive/in my garage! Meanwhile some quick thanks to Rhys at HR Owen who has been great to deal with.
I'd also like to thank Ross at Colchester Maserati - he worked hard trying to source me an MC Shift and found a couple more this week, though they were black....(if an MC Shift existed with the rest of the spec the same as my car I'd jump at it! But I don't believe it does). If anyone's looking for cars these guys are very much worth a call.
And finally thanks for the help received on here, especially Stuart and Dicky.
Fail!
Fail!
And now the good bit (excl. the length of this post)...I just collected this!
It's the HR Owen car. Gearbox aside, the rest of the spec grabbed me - it's all but perfect. I then started to convince myself that not having any clutch replacement costs and having something a bit more stealthy when needed (neighbours, MrsMurph) may well outweigh my gearbox preference (my opinion remains that the MC Shift is a sharper drive, even if by only a little bit having had more of a play in this).
It's Grigio Alfieri - the first GT (an S) I went to see was this colour and I loved it then as I do now. It picks up surrounding colours as could be seen from the HRO photos and also these quickly grabbed photos. It definitely doesn't look lilac (unless sat next to a pink car)!
The carbon on the exterior goes really well with the colour. Which is fortunate as there's plenty of it including the "diffuser", sills, front "splitter" and the exhaust shrouds. I like the carbon packs on GTs - the cars look a bit more aggressive with them, slightly less grown up which is what I was after
Astros - hated them on the black car I almost bought, thinking they looked too small. These aren't black but anthracite which might help, but I suspect it's the body colour that makes the biggest difference. I think they look great and won't be needing to change them for Neptunes.
Inside there's plenty more carbon and lots of alcantara. The interior really feels a good couple of notches above any other I've sat in and really sealed it for me. The GT has a lovely cabin anyway, and the colour combination of this one along with the soft touch of the alcantara make it a special place to sit.
The drive home was a good one to get used to the car and play with the 'box. I tended to find myself using a gear lower (numerically) than I probably would in an old school manual...not sure whether it was psychological but the shift seemed to be sharper that way (possibly the gearing of the auto at play?). Having a traditional auto made the initial leg of the journey through London a breeze, though kick down on cold Pirellis is to be avoided...(I'll blame buses and white vans
).The infotainment is clumsy, but to be honest not as horrendous as I'd set myself up for. The satnav got me home just fine, taking a sensible route. Will just have to get used to noting down the street I need as well as the postcode. Key locations I've simply stored and set up voice tags for (now I just need to learn how to use them!).
The stereo sounds good to my ears. Quality wise it's up there with the premium audio I had in my Aston though doesn't go quite as loud (not a problem for me). The speed that files are copied to the Jukebox is tragic (about 1Gb per hour for the first lot I've put up), but I'm regarding that as a one time hit. Having read up on the system I sorted out the naming of files to suit what I would use most when looking for music to play and it seems to work nicely. To be honest though I'll probably continue to listen to Talksport 90% of the time
One thing I neglected to test when picking the car up, and should have with hindsight, is the memory setting for the driver's seat (comfort seats only have this on the driver's side, don't they?). I cannot make this work at all! The seat moves fully, the passenger mirror dips on reverse to the position I set, the steering wheel gets out of the way when I open the door and returns to the last position used when I start up/put the key in, but the memory buttons do nothing.
Also, the driver's seat doesn't whirr forwards when I tilt the seat back forwards, so I suspect there's a fault in the seat somewhere....? (Passenger seat does this OK). This'll be slightly annoying to have to take the car in for, but other than that it's bloody fantastic
MrsMurph loves it too, as does MiniMurph #1 (#2 being too young to have an opinion).
More playing tomorrow, including careful testing of whether it will go up my drive/in my garage! Meanwhile some quick thanks to Rhys at HR Owen who has been great to deal with.
I'd also like to thank Ross at Colchester Maserati - he worked hard trying to source me an MC Shift and found a couple more this week, though they were black....(if an MC Shift existed with the rest of the spec the same as my car I'd jump at it! But I don't believe it does). If anyone's looking for cars these guys are very much worth a call.
And finally thanks for the help received on here, especially Stuart and Dicky.
