I like hubcaps

[moonwise]

I like laundry, I like waffles, I like ant farms... (heh heh)

and I like Brak.

As regards hubcaps and the vehicles to which they are attached, hubby and I spent Saturday driving around Flemington in various makes and models. Started the day with a Subaru Impreza, then on to a Nissan Altima, then a Mazda 626, then a Toyota Corolla and Camry, then the VW Passat again.

So the power rankings are as follows:

1. VW Passat
2. Toyota Camry
3. VW Jetta
4. Subaru Impreza
5. Toyota Corolla
6. Nissan Altima
7. Mazda 626



The Mazda was really disappointing in that they charge a lot of money for it and the interior fit and finish was really junky. For $25,000 you can get a much nicer car than that. Zoom zoom zoom indeeed.

The Subaru was much better than I had expected, but of course I can't have the WRX like I wanted. Waaaaah! So I guess I can't go drag racing with you, lordraziel. My husband won't let me have the WRX and I don't think your wife would be too keen on the rally-bred Fords. But one can dream. :)

I fully expected the Toyota Camry to be completely staid and boring, but that V6 spins up nicely and gives you a kick in the pants when you gun the engine. The dealer was also the nicest and the most friendly of all the dealers we went to. Our salesman, Hector, was really really new, and we were laughing because he kept remarking (about the Camry) "Gee! This is a really nice car!" He was a sweetheart. I don't think we're going to get the Camry, but I still wish we could buy from him. Perhaps he could get a quick transfer to the VW dealer.

The Passat was still the nicest car I drove, though it seems that to get the most punch out of the engine I will have to learn to use the Tiptronic shifter (semiautomatic shifting.) Hubby was all over that car like white on rice and so we make another, more serious trip to the dealer later.

It really was a car weekend. On Sunday of course the F1 race was on. It was very exciting for me at the beginning because Rubens Barrichello really had his teeth in the lead, but because of bad pit stop strategy he eventually got put back quite far and spent the end of the race chasing David "Whiney-pants" Couthard. Schuey won, of course.

And despite the heat, we went out and washed the cars. We're not supposed to wash the cars because of drought restrictions, but we saved the water from the laundry and that did the job. So we were really being very water-conscious. It was sad because it was likely the last time I will wash the Red Rocket... waaaaah!

Zoom. :)

Comments

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Good advice all. :) We have a subscription to Consumer Reports and we've been gauging every car carefully. It's true that some of the earlier model VW's, esp the mid-nineties models, were junk - they were unreliable and had a whole host of electrical problems. VW switched the factory out of where it was in Mexico to somewhere else and the quality jumped considerably. The late model VW's are supposed to be very good, at least CR thinks so. :)

And yes - good care of the car makes all the difference in the world. :)