I believed I’d dedicate a publish to a long-haul, multi-climate journey. I recall seeing different posts that had been related whereas I used to be contemplating and after shopping for my automotive. I can’t be as thorough as these, however I at all times discovered these useful if not simply plain enjoyable. I’ve achieved this journey (not precisely however the main routes and long-hauls) earlier than in our earlier SUV 4 instances, so I can provide strong comparisons.
Our earlier SUV was a 2016 Volvo XC90 R-Design (lined within the subsequent publish). It was nicely loaded with 4C Air Suspension, AutoPilot2, Premium, Bowers & Wilkins and the Polestar manufacturing unit tune. It carried out flawlessly in all journeys (besides a rock to the windshield).
I’ll be capable to evaluate the way it does when it comes to semi-autonomous driving, gas effectivity, refinement, powering up excessive altitude passes, dimension, consolation, and so forth. Each automobiles are AWD with All-Season tires, the Volvo had 20”, the BMW 21”. The BMW has run-flats the place the Volvo had a spare.
Since we’re doing a 3 week lengthy journey, we determined to drive the BMW, which regardless of being nearly 1.5 years previous, solely has 4,800 miles on it. We’re excited concerning the additional dimension, the smoother energy supply and I’m “pondering” I gained’t take an excessive amount of a penalty on effectivity, however we’ll see. We had initially ordered a 40i, however shortly modified to the M60 attributable to FOMO.
Our route is:
Day 1 – Austin, TX to Amarillo, TX (seemingly by way of Winters/Sweetwater/Lubbock)Day 2 – Amarillo, TX to Denver, CO (by way of Dalhart, Raton, Pueblo, Springs)Day 3 – Denver, CO to Avon, CO (by way of I70/Eisenhower/Vail Go)Day 4 – Avon, CO to Breckenridge, CO—-> +1 WeekBreckenridge, CO to Vail, CO (by way of I70 and Vail Go)—-> +8 DaysVail, CO to Telluride, CO (seemingly by way of I70W by Montrose)—-> +1 WeekTelluride, CO to Clovis, NMFollowing Day – Clovis, NM to Austin, TX (path to be decided)
I’ll create subsequent posts for various updates, the following publish will cowl the final automotive we took on this journey and its gas effectivity logs from Fuelly, the identical platform I’ll use for this journey.
This is the essential route:
Final edited by U235; 12-14-2023 at 09:10 PM..