Carmall.com - The second stage on Hyundai Grand Avega Media Fun Drive 2011 event consists of a few routes which are Garut-Bandung-Purwakarta-Jakarta. The trip was started from Resort Sumber Alam Garut to Sampireun until the region of Geothermal Power Plant (PLTP) Kamojang.

Just like before, the performance of Hyundai Grand Avega was tested when it has to go through winding road that also went down quite extreme. The media group then stopped for quite a while to take pictures in Kamojang region.

Before the journey continues, Carmall.Com shifts out to the automatic transmission Grand Avega that has four speeds in shift tronic feature. From the same class on its variant, the shift tronic feature can only be found on Grand Avega hatchback.

The capability of the automatic Grand Avega DOHC 1,400 cc is quite different from the manual one. However, when it sped away to next destination I could easily adapted with the shift tronic feature. The control of the automatic model that was offered with the price of Rp 171,5 million can be categorized as good enough when crossing the densely road of Bandung city.

In the Flower City of Bandung, the group of media along with Grand Avega visited the daily newspaper Pikiran Rakyat media office. PT Hyundai Mobil Indonesia did the CSR activity in the form of donation in symbolic to SDN Pasir Benteng which consists of building material for school repairmen.

After lunch break, at about 14.00 WIB we then left from Bandung entering Padalarang highway. The CSR activity then continued to the Purwakarta and done in Pesantren Al Islam.

Upon entering dusk time, the group of Hyundai Grand Avega Media Fun Drive 2011 left the Purwakarta region and made its way to Jakarta through Cipularang highway. The trip to the finish point on Pondok Indah Mall did not go that smooth. The media partner that already exhausted must also endure themselves to face the traffic jam. The patrol officer from Polda Metro Jaya had to break a leg to break the traffic that went down on the highway.

Once again, how lucky I am to be available to ride the automatic Hyundai Grand Avega hatchback. The space for driver's leg is quite spacey enough with a chair that prevents me from being exhausted. The placement of the automatic transmission is also easy to be reached because so many times I have to use the tronic shift feature to adjust the speed as well as keeping distance from other Grand Avega units especially one that uses manual transmission.

(ary dwinoviansyah)