The following day was driving sinuous roads. Luxembourg has fantastic roads and an ever changing landscape as we found out. Coffee was at a biker cafe and lunch at German castle. Some lesser Italian cars did arrive during lunch and were parked quite rightly in a nearby field.
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There were many interesting cars at the event.
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We were 36 cars in total and on the last day the Luxembourg Club got us into central Luxembourg City with no one getting lost despite a 4c start in mist . We had our own reserved secure parking and then a guided tour of the city followed by a cheese and wine luch.

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Then it was reverse drive back in for once sunshine to Mons followed the next day by a hood up in the rain drive home. Luckily we took Le Shuttle as the wind & rain would have made a ferry a poor option.
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So how did the CX do.

The good news is it was a joy to drive , the seats were comfortable and the hood didn't leak.

The heated seats are great in the cold.

The heated windscreen works unlike the trads were some of the wires don't.

Hills Alive cases from the trad work if you don't use the side pocket. Put onto the rear shelf with the tapered end upwards the seats can go back easily far enough for me & the slope on the case allows the hood to used up or down.

The car used no oil or water.

The overall fuel consumption was 42.4 mpg over the 1100 miles including many miles in convoy on back roads.

The bad news.

I broke a tenax fastner on the side of the car.

The round knob bit that sits in the sidescreen fell out.

Despite fixing the wiper arms with loctite and tightening them up the drivers side worked loose in heavy rain near Lille going home (they had been in use most days for many hours). My trusty allen key fixed that but I suspect this could be recurring issue.

The allen bolt holding on the sunvisor on my side worked loose , again the allen key saved the day.


JohnV6
2022 CX Plus Four
2025 MG ZS EV aka Trigger