Tremor road trip stats

[jgmartin]

Just finished a pretty long road trip in the tremor. Total came to 6820 miles (across the US from Florida to California). The truck got 17.1 mph average and 19.5 on a 2000 mile stretch of highway. Most of the non-highway time was in the mountains of California or Arizona and virtually all of the highway time was taken @ 75mph on blue cruise (which was fantastic).

Notes:

- the squircle *really* grew on me. I wasn’t a fan initially but it really is very comfortable to use with some adjustment
- this thing is the best road trip vehicle I could ever imagine. So comfy on the highway.
- the new digital experience infotainment was great. We did have to reset it once when the gps went offline randomly (which disabled blue cruise). Easy to do, just press the audio power button 5 times quickly.
- we did some light off roading on Arizona’s ohv trails and it was a ton of fun.
- I put 87 in it for the long highway stints and it was totally fine. Performance on fuel out west (whether 91 or 89, which I also tried) was substantially down from what I’m used to in Florida’s 93 octane, as I expected.

All in all it was perfect.. couldn’t have asked for more. I intend to use this vehicle almost exclusively for this purpose of long road trips, maybe towing a side by side or something to fun places. So far it has been perfect for this.

 

[Dtopford]

Good to know, thanks for the review!
It seems like every time I drive mine I learn another trick or another function. Latest is the ability to toggle lane keeping on and off from the left thumb pad. Also I rarely mess with buttons or screens to control temperature, I just use voice command for that LOL. Talk about first world problems.

 

[jgmartin]

Yea the one thing that I obsessed and almost didn’t buy it over was the lighting all being in the screen. In reality you just never touch it, which I suppose was true for the raptor that had the physical switch before it :/

 

[Dtopford]

Yea the one thing that I obsessed and almost didn’t buy it over was the lighting all being in the screen. In reality you just never touch it, which I suppose was true for the raptor that had the physical switch before it :/

That's kinda where I am at too. Once you get your profile and preferences set how often do you actually mess with the buttons. I do like the camera hot button although it only shows behind you when going down the highway.

Have you figured out if the front camera can be brought up as a trail camera like the Raptor and Bronco?

 

[jgmartin]

It does come up automatically when you put it in off-road mode. It also locks the rear end right away, which I found odd.

 

[dlcorbett]

That's kinda where I am at too. Once you get your profile and preferences set how often do you actually mess with the buttons. I do like the camera hot button although it only shows behind you when going down the highway.

Have you figured out if the front camera can be brought up as a trail camera like the Raptor and Bronco?

If you tap the camera button, the screen shows the rearview camera feed while driving?

 

[Dtopford]

yup, kinda crazy. I was trying to see if I could activate the trail camera but that is the only one that came up

 

[dlcorbett]

Nice...you dnt even need a digital rearview with that...dope

 

[sctom1]

How quiet was it, considering the tread on the tires

 

[jgmartin]

Remarkably quiet! That’s one of the things that I noticed most. My Tesla (model Y) is like driving in a clothes dryer full of shoes compared to this thing. I expected the tires to get louder with miles but I haven’t noticed this yet.

 

[Dtopford]

It does come up automatically when you put it in off-road mode. It also locks the rear end right away, which I found odd.

I have to try that this weekend! The other night I took it the back way into town on some washboard sandy dirt roads. I put it in sport and hit the off road light (almost midnight CVS run LOL) and kinda flogged it down the dirt road and I am truly impressed. It sucked up the washboards and ruts and flat out boogied, I looked and was doing 80 in a heartbeat and it was rock solid just sucking up the rough stuff completely stable.