So we took our first family road trip this past weekend, it was about 700 km round trip and included only two of my three kids.
For some quick info, I got 7 L / 100 KM as compared to 10 L / 100 during a regular driving week. I thought that was great considering I was hauling 4 bodies and clothes for a couple of days. My average speed was probably about 110 so I was driving fairly easy using cruise control for the large majority of the time.
It was pouring rain on the way to our destination..... I mean pouring and I was still able to keep a comfortable 100 km / hr going. I know for a fact my tires are useless in the snow but seemed to be fine in the rain.
The drive was comfortable, both kids had enough room for a nap in the back seat and we had lots of trunk storage for what we needed to take.
I did run into one minor issue, while going up steep hills the cruise control had trouble holding speed which I found weird. Instead of dropping back a gear it insisted on trying to get up to speed in 5th on the hills which was not working, I lost about 10-15 km/hr several times but it could have easily been prevented by down shifting. Luckily I could manually down shift with the manumatic mode but without that I would have been stuck losing speed on the larger hills. Next time I am in for an oil change I will ask about it.
Overall first road trip was great in the Optima.
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