{"id":4279,"date":"2003-10-02T06:21:13","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T13:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2003-10-02T06:21:13","modified_gmt":"2003-10-02T13:21:13","slug":"car_talk_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/02\/car_talk_3.html","title":{"rendered":"Car Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a week or so of driving the Subaru, vs. the Saturn, here are a few things you won&#8217;t read about in <i>Car &#038; Driver<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The hood is much shorter.  This gives better visibility (even with the scoop), and lets me park a lot further forward.  I have still not figured out how to park as far right as I used to. even though the car is no wider.\n<li>Unlike the Saturn, which had a long, broad hood, and a trunk, there&#8217;s no good place on the Subaru to stack stuff (incoming mail, sprinkler supplies, sections of the newspaper, groceries, boxes of soda).  This is, I suppose, a good thing, but it&#8217;s a bit irksome at times, since we are seriously short of stacking surfaces in the garage.<\/p>\n<li>The Saturn had flip-up headlights that went dark (but didn&#8217;t flip down) when you turned off the motor; instead, a chime would, er, chime.  The Subaru headlights go dark when you take out the key and all, but there&#8217;s no chime (and, obviously, they don&#8217;t flip back down).  Result:  I keep finding myself driving home in the afternoon with my lights on.  The only way I notice it is when I can&#8217;t see the clock display because it&#8217;s dimmed (because the lights are on).  This is not, I suspect, what they meant by &#8220;daytime running lights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<li>No antenna to go wubba-wubba-wubba when I drive up into the garage before the door is completely open.   No antenna to be whipped back and forth, and possibly destroyed, by car washes.  No antenna onto which to put little antenna bongles from Carls or Jack in the Box.<\/p>\n<li>The cruise control is non-persistent.  It turns itself off when the motor is shut off, so I have to turn it back on again to use it.  I&#8217;ve never quite understood that.  It has a lever control, like the van does, but the on\/off is on the lower-left console, which is an annoying thing.<\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;ve loaded six CDs into the CD player.  Woo-hoo!  Alas, it doesn&#8217;t remember the position last played on each CD, so if I change, it starts over from the beginning.  That makes a great deal of sense, but is nonetheless annoying.  Especially if I toggle between radio and CD (on commercials) and accidently hit the wrong button.<\/p>\n<li>The gradations on the speedometer are less fine than on the Saturn, so it&#8217;s tough to say when you&#8217;re really on a given MPH.  On the other hand, 73 MPH seems to be (I kid you not) straight up on the gauge (&#8220;12 o&#8217;clock&#8221;), which is, ah, very convenient.<\/p>\n<li>The positioning of the clutch is still a bit weird.  If I sit close enough to foot the clutch all the way in without stretching, then I&#8217;m too close with the other foot on the accelerator.  If I&#8217;m fine on the gas, then I&#8217;m toeing the clutch in.  Weird.  I&#8217;m adapting, though.<\/p>\n<li>I dropped by the dealership yesterday to have them remove the annoying dealership badge they&#8217;d glued on (despite my request to the salesguy, who, to be fair, pointed it out to me).  Now I just need to get a specialty license plate holder, and I can cease to advertise for the dealership.  Oh, and a license plate.  Well, I have until Thanksgiving to do that part.<\/ul>\n<p>The car rides well, and drives well, and I enjoy it very much.  I&#8217;m figuring out how to deal with the sluggish response from a dead stop, and how not to let the turbo send me down the road at 95 MPH.  The car is, amazingly enough, still clean and uncluttered inside.  I am a happy camper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week or so of driving the Subaru, vs. the Saturn, here are a few things you won&#8217;t read about in Car &#038; Driver: The hood is much shorter&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4315,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/26\/racing_to_the_e.html","url_meta":{"origin":4279,"position":0},"title":"Racing to the end of an era","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-Sep-03 8:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't deal with change well. It's not that it frightens me (per se), but it startles me. Even when it's good change, if it happens faster than I'm expecting,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cars","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/cars"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10030,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/20\/end_of_the_road.html","url_meta":{"origin":4279,"position":1},"title":"End of the road","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Sep-06 1:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So we have a plan on cars, you see? Average car, I think, will last you six, seven, eight years before you start having to worry about serious problems, or,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cars","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/cars"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4244,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/09\/car_update.html","url_meta":{"origin":4279,"position":2},"title":"Car update","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Oct-03 9:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"More things I've learned about our new Subaru: The cup holder situation definitely sucks. There is only one of a decent size, a CD-tray sort of affair in the dash,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cars","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/cars"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":94,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/14\/vroom_vroom.html","url_meta":{"origin":4279,"position":3},"title":"Vroom-vroom","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 14-Jun-03 3:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of the Fathers Day weekend festivities, we went car shopping today. Volkswagon Passat: It's amazing, dismaying, and a bit annoying when a particular car model has versions that...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cars","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/cars"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":142,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/09\/car_talk.html","url_meta":{"origin":4279,"position":4},"title":"Car talk","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Jun-03 2:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We've slowly but surely been paying off the Saturn (a '95 SC2), so that I'm in a new car come next winter (since the Saturn behaves on snow and ice...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cars","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/cars"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4308,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/26\/the_car.html","url_meta":{"origin":4279,"position":5},"title":"The Car!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-Sep-03 9:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Got it. Made the phone calls, went in and signed the papers, and drove off the lot with the new car. Katherine is suddenly mixed about the whole thing. But...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cars","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/cars"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}