With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

New Beeetle errata

2009 August 03 23:21

Just a couple of facts for the day.

I just got back from the trip that included a wedding in St. Louis and Oshkosh. Yesterday's milage, 315 or so (from memory). Today 441. So Caliburn (the New Beetle) has driven 2200+ miles in the last two weeks on this trip, and just a shade under 5000 since we bought it on June 18. Oy.

Preliminary milage figures are in. The NB seems to get about 29 to 31 miles per gallon when we've been driving it.

The car comes with two "switchblade" keys (that have built-in lock/unlock remotes) and a "valet" key which doesn't have any remote functions. In addition to not having a remote I have another difference of the valet key: it doesn't work on the lock cylinder of the glove box, but the switchblade keys do.

Our cat Jasper apparently knows the sound of the NB coming up the driveway.