Crossbone wrote:You promissed some driving impressions and a photo with the start/stop disengaging button. Your consumption so far?
Can you post a picture of the speed and revs needles? I understand they have a black outline from BW45 on, but didn't actually manage to see it clear so far.
Apologies for the delay, have been enjoying driving the car too much
Driving impressions sofar? Really straightforward in stop-start mode to be honest. Pull up to traffic lights, select neutral and disengage the clutch and the engine dies automatically. The silence takes a small bit of getting used to at first, but soon get used to it.
Note that the engine doesn't automatically die if the outside temp is below 5 degrees Celcius, if the engine hasn't yet reached full temp or if you have the Air-Con switched on. Alternatively, you can override the stop-start system with a button down beside the traction control/DCC buttons (in front of the gear lever).
To restart the engine, simply depress the clutch (i.e. before selecting a gear). Engine starts instantaneously; is no slower pulling away from lights in normal traffic than if the engine was running at idle speeds, especially if more than one car back in the queue ('cos have a moment or two as lights change from red to green anf the car(s) in front begin to pull away).
Consumption in first 500 odd miles has averaged about 34mpg overall; a lot of that has been city driving, 2nd & 3rd gear stuff. But, am still running the engine in (trying to keep to under 3,000 rpm for first couple of thousand kilometers or so - not sure if this is absolutely necessary?). Reckon once the engine frees up a little more, overall comsumption figure should improve closer to the 40mpg mark. Haven't yet done a long motorway journey and am very interested to see what I'll average for that (hoping for mid-40's, will see!).
Give me a few days and will take and post pics of the dials/needles etc....
120km/h (75mph), a few miles of town/city traffic with the rest on the equivalent of UK A-roads at "around" 
