1.8L, Red, [Similar Car Shown]
Driven: 2007
Place: Hastings, New Zealand
Context: Hire Car
Memory byte:
In joining Heinz Watties, I flew down to Hastings to visit their plant there during my induction. Pleased to find this wasnt an auto (like so many hire cars are), it meant for some fun driving ahead.
Even though the plant wasnt that far from the airport, there were enough roundabouts and roads to get some idea as to how this would perform on a longer test. The gear lever action was fantastic and the engine a little bit peppy, took me back a little to the hot hatch days in the 90s, although this was clearly too heavy and needed some proper tweaking.
