The hand over from the dealers took only 25 minutes or so, and then a quick drive over to Mum and Dad's for them to see it. Having checked the car over there are 2 minor problems - well one 'imperfection' with the Life Shine - a black sticky mark on the nearside rear wing, and one problem. I specified the Bluetooth handsfree telephone kit, and when I first tried to pair my handset (an iPhone)the menus didn't make perfect sense, so I abandoned the process thinking I'd sort it later having read the manual. But since then the whole telephone menu has disappeared from the MFD. Odd, to say the least. Fortunatly, the Garmin Sat-Nav I bought also has Bluetooth, so we used that for the weekend.
So for the first day we did about 40 miles making about 50 total on the clock.
My first thoughts on the looks are that I'm delighted - I think it looks great from every angle, even where it looks slightly awkward in some photos in the metal it doesn't.
I still haven't seen a Scirocco in Black Oak Brown and will have to reserve judgement until I do, but I'm very happy with the look of the Reflex Silver - especially when its clean. I'm also glad that I didn't spend any money on bigger wheels - the standard 18" look huge and the ride (on UK broken tarmac at least) is very good on Comfort - a little harsh on Normal and noticably uncomfortable on Sport.
I've read conflicting views as to the neccessity to run in new cars, but decided to stay under 4000rpm for the first 600 miles - and aiming to get those done in the first weekend.
That trip was to go from home in North East Surrey, around the motorways to South Wales, and then up to Mid Wales on A Roads, back to Telford for an overnight stop, and then home on a mixture of roads via a few interesting stops.
As it happened, we also got a mixture of weather, from fairly heavy rian to beautiful blue skies.
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