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Mazda6: Brisbane to Perth in 5 days
Can a red Mazda6 turbo-diesel wagon make the 4500km sojourn from coast to coast in just five days...?The Mazda6 is not the first car that springs to mind when someone suggests a marathon coast-to-coast drive across Australia. Yet due to some Machiavellian skullduggery, that's the car I'm currently driving from Brisbane to Perth.
In five days...
The 4500km odyssey follows a tight schedule due to unforeseen circumstances, but the turbo-diesel Mazda wagon is proving a worthy steed.
Road-trains? Overtakes them with effortless turbocharged ease. Wayward kangaroos at dusk? Dances around them deftly. And the heated leather seats are a godsend at 5:30am in Port Pirie, South Australia.
It's also pretty stingy on the fuel.
Day three is just over, and the odometer is reading a smidge above 3000km as I arrive in Eucla, the Eastern-most town in Western Australia.
You meet interesting people in the Outback, and Chris, one of the locals in the remote border town and a chef at the Eucla Motor Inn, takes a keen interest in the car parked out front.
She loves that it's a diesel, "Like my Patrol" and the low-slung, sleek design appeals, but Chris is candid in her appraisal of the cabin. "It's really short! My head touches the sunroof and I'm not the tallest person in the world. It's alright."
I ask her if someone in Eucla might buy one of these Japanese medium cars. She raises her eyebrows and gives me a frank look.
"People in Eucla might buy one, just not me. I would change the tyres, something chunkier, so you can take it off road. But when you get to town, ceduna or kalgoorlie, it's got a good look."
The next two days to Perth, spearing across the Nullarbor, are going to be interesting...
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