So I bought my new car yesterday...
Mar. 15th, 2006 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroserose...and I'm so very happy with her. She's fun, she's got a nice peppy engine, she handles well, she rides smoothly, and she's got all these fun little extras. I'm completely in love with the xenon HID headlights - driving home from downtown yesterday, it was practically daylight in front of the car. Interestingly, they also appear to have an angle adjustor - you can set them to point up and out or down at the ground. That'll probably be handy on foggy/snowy days.
Other things I love: how quickly she goes from road speed to highway speed - there's no feeling of straining along at all like Marian sometimes had. (Comes from having the same horsepower in a car that weighs two-thirds as much, I guess.) The little gauge that tells you what gear you're in - I don't have to stress about whether the car sounds like it's switching gears properly. The low-tire-pressure sensor - another thing I don't have to worry about (though it tends to light up on cold mornings like this). The CD changer - "I don't feel like listening to this, let's press a button and listen to something else." The nice sound system. The sunroof, even though I haven't had a chance to open it (it's just been too flippin cold the last few days). How quiet the engine is - even on the highway, pretty much all you hear is road/wind noise. How much cargo room she has, being a hatchback and all. Stuff like that.
One thing I do sort of miss is the cushy seats - Marian, being an American semi-luxury model, did have more comfortable seats. But the new Mazda's are still perfectly serviceable, and certainly not as bad as the seats in my parents' early-90s-model Civic growing up.
I'll have pictures up eventually, once it's not too frelling cold to be outside taking them. Meanwhile, here's hoping I still love her after I make the first almost-$300 car payment. :)
Also, I still haven't named her yet, though I'm open for suggestions...should be something peppy and fun without being annoying, methinks.
Other things I love: how quickly she goes from road speed to highway speed - there's no feeling of straining along at all like Marian sometimes had. (Comes from having the same horsepower in a car that weighs two-thirds as much, I guess.) The little gauge that tells you what gear you're in - I don't have to stress about whether the car sounds like it's switching gears properly. The low-tire-pressure sensor - another thing I don't have to worry about (though it tends to light up on cold mornings like this). The CD changer - "I don't feel like listening to this, let's press a button and listen to something else." The nice sound system. The sunroof, even though I haven't had a chance to open it (it's just been too flippin cold the last few days). How quiet the engine is - even on the highway, pretty much all you hear is road/wind noise. How much cargo room she has, being a hatchback and all. Stuff like that.
One thing I do sort of miss is the cushy seats - Marian, being an American semi-luxury model, did have more comfortable seats. But the new Mazda's are still perfectly serviceable, and certainly not as bad as the seats in my parents' early-90s-model Civic growing up.
I'll have pictures up eventually, once it's not too frelling cold to be outside taking them. Meanwhile, here's hoping I still love her after I make the first almost-$300 car payment. :)
Also, I still haven't named her yet, though I'm open for suggestions...should be something peppy and fun without being annoying, methinks.
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Date: 2006-03-15 06:27 pm (UTC)Or when you're sharing the road with other drivers. (:
Cyrano, who has shared the road with Xenon headlights before.
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Date: 2006-03-15 06:32 pm (UTC)Yes, I have asshole headlights and I'm proud of it! =)
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Date: 2006-03-15 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-03-15 09:18 pm (UTC)Give Brian a swift smack over the head for me please.