Rental Car Ruckus 2: Electric Boogaloo

[Goodspeed]

Time to regale you all with the experience I've had thus far with my rental 2016 (?) Chevy Cruze, 35k miles, $29 a day.





Probably the most downright brutal part of the car for me is the design/location of the dead pedal.  It's wide and placed forward, so in my seating position, if my foot is on it my left leg is very much bent into an awkward position with my knee towards me that doesn't give the feeling of "resting" at all - very tiresome after 10-15 mins.  If I choose not to place my foot on the dead pedal, my left leg is then angled uncomfortably rightwards from my straight torso so that my left foot is crammed into the pedal box - positioned below on the leftmost flat surface next to the dead pedal as it angles into the floorpan.  It's as if no one under 6'+ on the design team even sat in the car.



Speaking of my left leg, if I wanna activate the parking brake, knee gets jammed into the door panel here:



This A-pillar is blocking an entire car.  The blind spot afforded by the gigantic B-pillar is doubly tremendous:




I still can't believe what modern design has done to placing your elbow on the doorsill.  One of the most natural movements while driving for a long, lazy stretch and it's just like everyone who builds cars these days is OK with this.  Not easy to tell, but the tip of my elbow is about even with my ear:



Buckled in my somehwat far-forward seating position, reaching out and I still can't touch the glass.  I have no idea where the front of this car is, if it even exists at all:



Beyond that, the steering feels like one of the 25 cent rides in front of a supermarket, the responsiveness to inputs (throttle tip in and shifting) is just bad and the stop/start "feature" is absoutely maddening.  I can drop it in N or L at rest and it won't shut the motor off, but the constant *shunt* of the motor starting and stopping if left in D is ridiculous.  How many starter motors do cars go through these days?

In summary: load them all onto a space barge and transport into the sun