Benmac
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So, I'm now about a month or so in to my tenure of the QP and am I liking it? Oh yes, very much indeed. It is an incredibly “feel good†car and in a peculiar way it is massively relaxing. Yes you can get a proper move on when you want to but quite a lot of the time when I'm in it I'm happy to just cruise along, everything seems less stressful when you're in it and on the motorway I've been happy to travel at a slightly lower speed than I normally would most of the time. There is an element I suppose of being able to think to yourself (in a supercilious tone of course) “I have nothing to prove, off you go Mr. *insert name of most hated repmobile here*â€. It makes me chuckle every time I pull onto the drive in another car and it is sat there.
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Having said that I have had cause to hustle it a couple of times and even on roads that shouldn't be suited to a nearly two ton luxury saloon it really is an impressive thing. The eagerness and directness it shows when turning in really is quite something. In fact, that is one thing I am wondering about. The turn in to me is perhaps a little too sharp. When chucking it about it's great but say on a long sweeping motorway exit it can be a little hard to place at times as it seems a touch too pointy. Grip and communication are imperious but it's just too keen to dive for that apex. Does anyone on here know anything about the geometry set up on them and whether any settings exist to dial that out a little. *The chap who looks after my Lotuses is a whizz with this sort of thing and is mates with a Maserati dealer service manager so I'm sure he'd be able to help but if there is some previous experience here it'd be useful.
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The only other niggle I have is fuelling the thing. No not the frequency with which you need to do it, I was prepared for that but that it's a pain to actually get fuel in it. First couple of times it was fine, “stuff, nozzle in, pull trigger, wait until it clicks, look at the gauge on the pump and wince a little, go and payâ€. Now however the nozzle doesn't seem to want to go fully in and you then need to be careful with the angle of it otherwise the pump just clicks off all the time. Annoying in the extreme. Have I maybe dislodged something? It looks fine if you peer down the hole and the sprung flap seems OK.
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I have been wondering too whether these things somehow attract each other. I took it to London a couple of weeks ago and while parked up in Hyde Park I returned to it to find this
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And then yesterday at a meeting I was idly looking for a space in the hotel car park and the only decent one available happened to be next to this.
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Having said that I have had cause to hustle it a couple of times and even on roads that shouldn't be suited to a nearly two ton luxury saloon it really is an impressive thing. The eagerness and directness it shows when turning in really is quite something. In fact, that is one thing I am wondering about. The turn in to me is perhaps a little too sharp. When chucking it about it's great but say on a long sweeping motorway exit it can be a little hard to place at times as it seems a touch too pointy. Grip and communication are imperious but it's just too keen to dive for that apex. Does anyone on here know anything about the geometry set up on them and whether any settings exist to dial that out a little. *The chap who looks after my Lotuses is a whizz with this sort of thing and is mates with a Maserati dealer service manager so I'm sure he'd be able to help but if there is some previous experience here it'd be useful.
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The only other niggle I have is fuelling the thing. No not the frequency with which you need to do it, I was prepared for that but that it's a pain to actually get fuel in it. First couple of times it was fine, “stuff, nozzle in, pull trigger, wait until it clicks, look at the gauge on the pump and wince a little, go and payâ€. Now however the nozzle doesn't seem to want to go fully in and you then need to be careful with the angle of it otherwise the pump just clicks off all the time. Annoying in the extreme. Have I maybe dislodged something? It looks fine if you peer down the hole and the sprung flap seems OK.
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I have been wondering too whether these things somehow attract each other. I took it to London a couple of weeks ago and while parked up in Hyde Park I returned to it to find this
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And then yesterday at a meeting I was idly looking for a space in the hotel car park and the only decent one available happened to be next to this.
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