It feels like I've clocked up about a million miles this month - the Zafira's been to Ireland, Scotland and Wales! Sadly evo's powerbus has taken a bit of a beating along the way. I should have known better than to hand the keys of my high performance MPV to evo publisher, pro-race driver and well known car abuser, Allan Pattison. Less than a minute later the sound of breaking glass could be heard echoing around the campsite in West Sussex. I emerged from our luxury trailer to find Pattison, shoulders shrugged, wearing a blank expression and asking 'Who put that there?' The Zafira's backside was wedged firmly into the trunk of a sizeable tree, rear window and tail light smashed (cost £250) a large crease in the bodywork. Trees, they're just so hard to avoid aren't they?
The trip down to Sussex wasn't without incident either because the trip computer lied to me. It read 15 miles to empty on the display just before we got stranded with a dry fuel tank at the side of the A1, on the phone to the AA. I'll stick to looking at the old-fashioned fuel gauge in future.
Motorway miles pass quickly and smoothly, although it's not long before the figure hugging Recaro seats really start to make your buttocks ache, while the wind noise becomes irritating.
Fully loaded with baby gear, the Zafira makes perfect sense for a family man, and it's really, really fast but I'm beginning to miss driving a proper car, one that goes round corners.
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