The balik kampung trip up north was not a pleasant one since it rained mostly throughout the three-and-a-half-hour journey. Not only that, the road was so jam packed with cars that I took one and a half hour more than usual to reach my destination, just in time to break fast on the last day of Ramadhan.
Throughout the journey from Subang toll to Ipoh toll; I noticed that Malaysian drivers had no sense of safety. Drivers on the fast lane tend to drive above the speed limit of 110 km/h even though it was pouring and visibility was poor. Impatient drivers tend to drive on the emergency lane when they found that the fast and middle lanes were packed with cars. They did not seem to be bothered by the government innumerable warnings to be extra careful when driving during the festive season. No wonder we read a lot on people being killed or maimed in the many accidents that littered the country. In pouring rain, I once saw a Myvi car tailgating me when I was on the fast lane and being the good driver that I was, I let him pass. Malaysians just never seemed to learn how to drive on highways.
The drive up north gave me the opportunity to check for the third time on the petrol consumption of the Nissan 350Z. The distance covered was 216.9 km, petrol used was 23.185 litres costing RM 41.73. This works out to be 9.3552 km/litre or 26.397 miles per gallon. The consumption meter shows that over the same distance, the meter read exactly 10.00 km per litre. Translating to imperial, I got 28.216 miles per gallon. The meter thus over-read by 6.09 percent. The drive was not purely on the highways since I made a couple of stops and drove at a leisurely pace on trunk roads before reaching home.
The meter reading when I last filled the tank at a Caltex station in Ipoh was 17,086 and today's fill was at Shell in Subang Jaya when the meter read 17,344. I have thus travelled 258 km and consumed 26.46 litres of RON 95 petrol. The comsumption is thus 9.7506 km per litre or 27.512 miles per gallon
The trip back to Subang Jaya was more pleasant because of excellent weather and the road was dry throughout the journey home. I made a couple of stops at Tapah and Ulu Bernam R&R. I noticed that cars that tend to drive fast were the BMWs; not those big 7-series ones though but the smaller sporty ones such as the 325s and the 320s. Because of the heavy traffic, I always let them pass me even though I knew that a slight pressure on my throttle would leave them standing still on normal highway driving.
Just before reaching the Subang toll I thought, all of a sudden, I was tailgated by what looked like the front of a Nissan GTR but I was not sure since I was already turning into the toll lane as the car passed me and proceeded straight on the highway to Klang.
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