General Test drove a twin air today.

[Gunscrossed]

Must say I was very impressed. Mixture of roads, on A road at 60mph the instant mpg was hovering around 70mpg. Combined mpg for the drive was 56mpg which included sections "booting it", what a great engine note!

 

[RobinPJ]

Did you place an order?

(Welcome to the Forum.)

 

[Gunscrossed]

Did you place an order?

(Welcome to the Forum.)

Not yet! Test driving an Abarth next. Also driving myself mad with options etc.

 

[multispoke]

Not yet! Test driving an Abarth next. Also driving myself mad with options etc.

that will be interesting. If you cannot afford to buy a new one - don't drive it - you'll end up re-morgaging the house .

 

[RobinPJ]

Not yet! Test driving an Abarth next. Also driving myself mad with options etc.

Well be sure to share your thoughts with us here - plenty of views on what you do and don't need.

 

[arorat]

Must say I was very impressed. Mixture of roads, on A road at 60mph the instant mpg was hovering around 70mpg. Combined mpg for the drive was 56mpg which included sections "booting it", what a great engine note!

Welcome to the forum.

I ordered one last month and that was only after hearing the sound on youtube, well almost !! I didn’t do an extensive test drive.

Funny it may sound, you could spec the options and work your way back from ByDiesel to Lounge/Sport and see what fits best. Abarth is in a different class :devil:

 

[Gunscrossed]

I know I'm going to love the Abarth but I also really like the new tech in the twin air.

I'll probably go for the Lounge spec. I was thinking of adding leather etc. but was quite impressed by the basic spec. They had one in BNW with black/white check in the showroom and it looked cool.

 

[arorat]

I know I'm going to love the Abarth but I also really like the new tech in the twin air.

I'll probably go for the Lounge spec. I was thinking of adding leather etc. but was quite impressed by the basic spec. They had one in BNW with black/white check in the showroom and it looked cool.

The TA has a great sound, we went for red with black/white and ivory. I think they can do with more dark seat colours with ivory.

if keeping the car for a while get interscope, assuming you are into music and also order the free tom tom holder on the dash (its a hole in the dash to plug tom tom).

quite a few BNW owners here, is BNW the bluish white colour ?

 

[RobinPJ]

The TA has a great sound, we went for red with black/white and ivory. I think they can do with more dark seat colours with ivory.

if keeping the car for a while get interscope, assuming you are into music and also order the free tom tom holder on the dash (its a hole in the dash to plug tom tom).

quite a few BNW owners here, is BNW the bluish white colour ?

HOW VERY DARE YOU BE ON THIS FORUM AND NOT KNOW WHAT BNW IS!!!!!!!!!​

Only joking - it is bossa nova white. I.e., the white of 90% of the cars.

 

[RobinPJ]

I know I'm going to love the Abarth but I also really like the new tech in the twin air.

I'll probably go for the Lounge spec. I was thinking of adding leather etc. but was quite impressed by the basic spec. They had one in BNW with black/white check in the showroom and it looked cool.

Leather is a good idea in my book. The lounge seats don't look all that (in my book anyway) and are easy to mark.

 

[arorat]

HOW VERY DARE YOU BE ON THIS FORUM AND NOT KNOW WHAT BNW IS!!!!!!!!!​

Only joking - it is bossa nova white. I.e., the white of 90% of the cars.

bad bad bad, you acted to quickly and are making me see RED... I know what BNW is but was asking is it the blusih of the white colours. I saw a white 500 at dealers with a slight hint of blue, awsome colour I must say.

 

[RobinPJ]

I reckon you are referring to cha cha cha azure. Now discontinued (I think).

 

[multispoke]

bad bad bad, you acted to quickly and are making me see RED... I know what BNW is but was asking is it the blusih of the white colours. I saw a white 500 at dealers with a slight hint of blue, awsome colour I must say.

I know what arorat is referring to on a bluish hue of the white. He is referring to the BNW and on certain light conditions in a show room (they're probably using daylight bulbs) it gives that effect.

THe cha cha is officially discounted - this was discussed in 'what colour'.

 

[TwinAir Newbie]

My wife has a BNW Lounge TwinAir with black and white check upholstery.

We've had it six weeks and put on over 2100 miles.

It's really enjoyable.

By the way, when I first saw BNW I thought I was on the wrong car forum.

 

[Gunscrossed]

My wife has a BNW Lounge TwinAir with black and white check upholstery.

We've had it six weeks and put on over 2100 miles.

It's really enjoyable.

By the way, when I first saw BNW I thought I was on the wrong car forum.

My current car is actually a BMW!

What sort of fuel figures are you getting from the twin air?

 

[TwinAir Newbie]

My current car is actually a BMW!

What sort of fuel figures are you getting from the twin air?

The fuel consumption of the TwinAir is widely discussed on this forum.

I get about the same consumption out of the TwinAir as I did out of my BMW 530D Touring when it was on a long run!

That's about 45mpg, but to be fair that's on give and take driving mainly round here.

Don't but a TA for economy- it's been mentioned time and time and time again.

 

[Gunscrossed]

Thanks, I still can't quite belive people are only getting 45mpg out of these

 

[rallycinq]

Thanks, I still can't quite belive people are only getting 45mpg out of these

What spec of TA did you test drive?

Cheers

D

 

[Gunscrossed]

It was a Pop with a few extras, inc. alloy wheels.

 

[wigit]

in reality i'm looking forward to only 45mpg at the moment, anything else will be a bonus