Reply #9: i haven't driven many cars more than a few times, but...

[fizzgig]

i drove out to see my mom in summer of 07, an 800 mile drive my 81 volvo wagon was no longer able to make, so i rented a car.

i wound up in a little mazda 3. i have no idea what other people think of it but, for someone who'd been driving that same 81 volvo for nearly a decade, it was a fun little car to drive. had it been a stick, it would have been even better.

my car could do 75 on the interstate...if we were going downhill and the wind was at our back. in the mazda, all i had to do was think about speeding up. i was on the long haul across the nebraska panhandle, looked down at the speedo and was flabbergasted to see i was going 105. eeeeeeeeeeek!

i've made that drive in four or five different cars and that was the most fun i'd ever had.