Spain and back

[chalcroft]

Took the Omega down to the Costa Brava and back on holiday.Me the Mrs and the three kids plus all the camping equipment. Had a great time and the car never missed a beat. 2175 miles in two weeks. Goes to show they can be reliable if a little thirsty!!

[Webby the Bear]

nice one m8...... was your back killing afterwards?

really strangely i drove to liverpool in the mig a couple of months back and for the first time ever got back ache!!!!!  :-/

[henryd]

Took the Omega down to the Costa Brava and back on holiday.Me the Mrs and the three kids plus all the camping equipment. Had a great time and the car never missed a beat. 2175 miles in two weeks. Goes to show they can be reliable if a little thirsty!!

just been there myself for the last two weeks although I chose to fly and hire a car down there,hot though wasn't it

[albitz]

nice one m8...... was your back killing afterwards?

really strangely i drove to liverpool in the mig a couple of months back and for the first time ever got back ache!!!!!  :-/

My cloth seats gave me the same problem, no matter how I adjusted them. No problems since I fitted the leather seats though. :-/

[chalcroft]

No back ache.Had the car a long time and have done 80k miles in her so guess my back must have molded to the seats in that time! If only my wallet could get used to its thurst for fuel.

[omegod]

No back ache.Had the car a long time and have done 80k miles in her so guess my back must have molded to the seats in that time! If only my wallet could get used to its thurst for fuel.

Gas it!

[cam2502]

off there myself shortly. lloret de mar on...sept 11th :-/
hate flying at the best of times but i'll be kaking the breeks that day

[TheBoy]

First time I took the MV6 to Montpellier and back (around 1800 miles), I was getting 500m to a tank on the journey (obviously that dropped once there), and returned 32mpg over entire trip, including some very high speed runs to catch back up with our convoy.


For those with backache, something I sympathise heavily with, suffering badly myself, its not something I've ever suffered with in the Omega, whether it be a short 300 mile blast up to the Lakes, or a trip to the South of France, which is probably one of the key reasons I have kept with Omegas for so long...

[Lazydocker]

First time I took the MV6 to Montpellier and back (around 1800 miles), I was getting 500m to a tank on the journey (obviously that dropped once there), and returned 32mpg over entire trip, including some very high speed runs to catch back up with our convoy.


For those with backache, something I sympathise heavily with, suffering badly myself, its not something I've ever suffered with in the Omega, whether it be a short 300 mile blast up to the Lakes, or a trip to the South of France, which is probably one of the key reasons I have kept with Omegas for so long...

Seconded! My current situation aside, which means that after around 2 hours I get bad sciatic pain (although that element has pretty much cleared up since I last did a longer journey so may not be an issue any more), I've found the Omega to be the most comfortable car I have ever driven. We did southern Italy in 2 days (and back in 2 days also) and got out of the car much fresher than our friends who had flown down and hired a car Got good economy too... Over 3500(ish) miles the MID was reading 31mpg and that included a lot of local driving down there and some very fast runs on the motorways when not on cruise (between 85 and 110mph)

[chalcroft]

I got 30.4mpg over the whole trip. To be fair it is due a service  but I ran out of time before we left, so it had to make do with a quick check of the levels and a few extra pounds in the tyres.

[tunnie]

taken my 2.2 to Landgraaf on the German border, did it easily in a day, stepped out all fresh no back ache.

Been in other cars, back ache within 20 mins 

Omega just has really nice big comfy seats, smooth ride it just eats the miles. 

I love a good road trip with mates, tunes on, snacks at the ready, cruise control on  8-)

[maracus]

Sounds better than mine was.. The bottom pulley threw a paddyand fell apart when I got to Bergerac, poxy thing!! Apart from that it didn't really miss a beat.

That car had been a pig I wish I'd kept with my old saloon!

...or got a v6..

[Varche]

We did a three week trip in our Omega with cloth seats looking at houses for sale in Spain and Portugal a few years back. Averaged ten hours driving per day. ( we swap drivers every two hours and stop every four) The Omega is a great car for distance driving especially with cruise and a fat wallet.

Chalcroft - My good friend did the same trip (SLady bitshorpe) to Lloret as you as a child with his family in an Austin A40 - I think in 1963. The dad drove all the way and they went via Belgium to see an aunt.  The road they went over the Pyrenees was a dirt track!  I bet they had back ache !

[chalcroft]

Chalcroft - My good friend did the same trip (SLady bitshorpe) to Lloret as you as a child with his family in an Austin A40 - I think in 1963. The dad drove all the way and they went via Belgium to see an aunt.  The road they went over the Pyrenees was a dirt track!  I bet they had back ache !

Wow.That must have been some road trip back then. Cars  needed so much more maintenance in those days too.

[Varche]

Chalcroft - My good friend did the same trip (SLady bitshorpe) to Lloret as you as a child with his family in an Austin A40 - I think in 1963. The dad drove all the way and they went via Belgium to see an aunt.  The road they went over the Pyrenees was a dirt track!  I bet they had back ache !

Wow.That must have been some road trip back then. Cars  needed so much more maintenance in those days too.

And took forever to get up to a reasonable cruising speed!