Change of job recently means my commute has increased from 6 miles to 80 mile daily for the next 12 months. Rather than putting the miles on to the 335i agreed to 'swap' cars with the wife, so for the last 3 weeks been mainly driving her diesel Civic. When I woke up at 7 am to go to work today and saw the lovely weather couldn't resist not taking the 335i.....I had forgotten just how good to drive the 335 is, most of the commute is lovely twisty A road, its a nice road to drive on in the Civic but in the 335i it was pure joy, I think a few motorcyclists were surprised at how easily a 4 door saloon was keeping up with them, I don't think I've ever arrived at work so happy (and 15 minutes early)
Downside though, averaged 19mpg compared to 45+ mpg in the Civic, so will be going back to the Civic tomorrow
...at least now I have a way to make the weekend shifts a bit more bearable
. So for all those getting bored with their cars go and drive something like a Civic for a bit than your realise how good your current ride actually is.
