How many cars have a street named after them? When I found out there was a Dame Zara Street in a new suburban development on Canberra's outskirts, we just had to call in on our way home!
Aside from a minor overheating incident on the way up that wasn't repeated (the needle of the temperature gauge stayed in the lower third all the way home), Dame Zara behaved impeccably on the 1000-mile round trip.
Passing a digital speed-checker on the freeway just out of Melbourne, I discovered that 76mp/h on the speedo is really 'only' 108km/h. As the speed limit on the freeways is 110km/h, an indicated 80mp/h became our maximum speed (when safe and appropriate, of course). Zara had absolutely no trouble keeping up with the modern traffic, and we did our fair share of overtaking slowpokes, even pulling up hills at 4000 rpm-plus in order to pass trucks.
What's even more impressive is that our fuel consumption for the trip averaged out at about 23.5 mpg!
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