Rental Car Ruckus 2: Electric Boogaloo

[ScottyB]

Going to be a long drive to Raleigh and back tomorrow.

:lol: i can't think of a car less suited to everything that is your personality and desires than that plastic dustbuster of sadness

so someone booped Mrs.B's Xterra and its in the shop getting a new bumper + fender. we are currently living the high life in this concentrated ingot of sexual fantasy:



a couple things:
(A) wow, i guess when your youngest car is 12 years old you forget how much kit even a rental-spec turd comes with. HID, backup camera, bluetoofs, touchscreen...i'm sort of impressed. shit, i've been living like a savage!
(B) it is exactly what a toyota corolla should be, which is firstly a car, and then the most unoffensive flavor of vanilla possible. it is completely transparent. its nice looking enough that i think, hey, that car is modern and looks like it wasn't the cheapest thing someone could buy. then i turn around, get distracted by perhaps a small animal or burrito, and in that space of time i've forgotten that i've looked at it
© in news that should surprise nobody, its big now. like, far bigger inside than i expected and had plenty of room for a car seat in the back with the front seat not squished forward. totally passable as a car for a small family.

the steering is pretty overboosted and the brakes are ridiculously grabby. throttle tip-in is definitely pulling from the Chrysler playbook of "aggressive" and makes the car feel like it has 50 more hp than it actually does. it smells like the ass-cushion of a seat on a well-traveled Delta airliner and the seats are flat as a freaking board. shifter feels like it was stolen off of an arcade. 27k brutal miles, far from its California home.

5/10 if you put gas into a hole in the side it will transport you to other locations.