I always thought they were good looking. I remember when I first read that they were going to be produced. I was interested until I found out how small they were going to be. I initially envisioned something the size of a Suburban - sort of like the original cars they are modeled after - tall and long. I still think they are cute but unfortunately, they have real bad crash statistics too. That sort of turns me off.
Randy -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com]on Behalf Of Rich Thomas Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:01 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Rental car this week I had one of those a year or two ago in BNA, and even though I have a fairly skinny butt the seats felt like I was sitting in a 5 gal bucket. I can't imagine a fatass sitting in one, though I guess the padding would help. I thought it was buzzy and noisy, and the radio was not particularly intuitive (whatever happened to a tuning knob and a volume knob and a few buttons to push/hold to set for the stations?). Once I figured it out it sorta made sense in a Chinglish kind of way. The first one I got from the rental place (just a few thou miles on it), I got about 100 ft and the RF half shaft/CV was clunking and screeching, so I went back and got another one. ("CV joint, whussat?" Uh, that means the wheel might break or fall off if I hit a good bump.) When I got back a couple days later they still had that first one on the rental lot. But you are right it was a reasonable mover and easy on gas. --R Curt Raymond wrote: > So this week I'm back in southern California. I flew in late on Monday > thinking I would get a better rental car, WRONG! I've got a PT Cruiser. > > Actually if I'm honest I'll admit that its not anywhere near as crappy a car > as I thought it'd be. Its UGLY sure, and the headrests are about the most uncomfortable I've ever seen... > The floor mounted shifter is kinda cool, the gauges are mostly obscured by > the steering wheel and the radio controls are annoying although it does have an aux jack... > > I'll tell you what though, I've been thrashing the crap out of the thing, > every freeway onramp I've taken has been at full throttle and the thing that surprises me is that there isn't the torque steer I'd expect from such a reasonably powerful small car... > > I wouldn't buy one but its not all that bad a car. > > -Curt > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090611/f4c75357/attachment.html> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
