| IceCreamMan |
05-27-2012 01:42 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scooby
(Post 227369)
Congrats! Now go get a screw driver and a hair dryer and immediately remove that horrible license plate frame and hideous dealer decal ;)
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Already done!! Looks much better now :thumbup:
Some impressions of the car after I have gone all the way through my first tank of gas:
Exterior - Its awesome. By far one of the best looking cars I have ever seen, and the Asphalt (or DGM for you Subaru guys) goes PERFECTLY with the rims. Glad I waited for it. I have seen the thread about the taillight condensation, but my issue is with the front turn signal has some condensation building up. I will have to take it in later. After I took the dealership plate frame and decal off, I put on a slightly smoked cover on it and it looks a whole lot better.
Interior - Not a ton of frills, but its much better than what I'm used to (I used to drive a NeonSRT4) so I'm not hard to impress. When you sit in the car, you are sitting low. It almost takes you off guard just how high the dashboard sits once you're all the way down in the seat, not in a bad way though, as my fiance says, "different." For being such a small car, the inside is pretty roomy, at least in the front seats. I am 6'2" and fit just fine with the seat all the way back and down. The rear "seats" are a joke. You MIGHT be able to fit a small child back there if you have a child or short adult sitting in the front seat. With the seat all the way back, the front seat literally touches the rear seats. I will say the rear side windows are USELESS. They almost just shouldn't be there. You can't see anything out of them. I love the radio in it (I just have the stock radio, no bespoke). Having the ability to stream audio from my iphone via bluetooth is amazing. Just get in the phone and its going, no screwing around with wires or anything.
The Driving Experience:
This car is not going to blow anyone away off the line obviously, but that's not where the enjoyment lies. The engine noise under load is nice, and it quiets down when cruising. The cruise control is awesome (just thought I would throw that in there since my last car didn't have it, and I love having it now). The car definitely has more legs under it when you get higher into the RPM band but I haven't really gotten it there since it only has 300 miles on it atm. I'll post some more about the driving once I get it past 1k miles. The handling is what makes this car fun and I haven't even gotten near the limits of what it can do. Turns I would take at say 25-30 mph and get huge amounts of body roll I take a the same speed like they are nothing. The steering is super quick and the turn radius is nice (if you've ever driven a Neon SRT4 you'll understand about the turning radius). The car just makes me grin every time I take one of those turns.
I guess that's it for now, I'll have the windows tinted this week to keep some of the ungodly florida heat out of the car during the day. In the mean time, I'll have to find a good place to take some good pictures. |
