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polcx784
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:13 pm
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polcx784
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:11 pm
Post Subject: Living with the Dream And Honda graceful Cars
Living with the Dream And Honda graceful Cars
Frankly put, it's my job to have driven every single car on the road. To that end, we have a constantly rotating fleet of vehicles at our Ann Arbor offices (and, of course, our year-long Four Seasons fleet.) Because I escaped from Michigan's bitter cold (and replaced it with San Francisco's damp cold), I don't have access to those cars on a daily basis. Instead, I have a couple of cars per week at my disposal here in California.
Like so many things, on the surface it seems like a dream come true to have a constant rotation of cars. For me, it was. And still is. But the perfect situation it's not.
First of all, you're almost always in a car that's foreign to you. You never have your EZ-Pass-type-device or change for parking meters. Your radio stations are never memorized. And a couple of times per week, you're looking for the perfect seating position, steering wheel position, and mirror adjustments.
Yeah, I know, sucks to be me.
More importantly, driving the cars is my job-it's work. That means I'm paying attention to things that normal motorists don't have to. I'm taking mental notes the whole time (transcribing them when I get home). I'm playing with every button. I'm driving both in a manner that I would drive (my friends would describe this as a NYC taxi driver on a cocaine binge) as well as the manner in which the particular car's customers would drive. That means that shiny new Honda Fit outside? I'm forced to drive it -gasp- "normally." There are some other magazines out there (many of which I respect tremendously) who love the Fit for its sportiness. I find nothing sporty about the Fit-and judging from how I see the subcompact Hondas driven in the real world, neither do their owners. So, behind the wheel of the Fit, I channel Sally Safedriver. And I'm currently averaging 31 mpg, thank you very much. Yawn.
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