A zoom-zoom tease (Read 681 times)

So today "Dash" the wondermobile had his 30k mile service. Since it was going to take a couple of hours the dealership offered me a loaner. The loaner was a Mazda CX-7...turbo (244 hp...same engine in the Mazdaspeed 3--my dream car), manumatic 6-speed transmission, leather, traction control. Nice. What sucks is our backroads are such a mess that I couldn't go see what the baby could do. Nice pickup on the roads, though. That manumatic transmission is kinda cool, too...though not as cool as a true manual with a clutch. I think I still prefer my little 3. Those larger vehicles just seem so out-of-touch with the road. On bad roads I don't think I'd care for that. My drive down to the dealership was VERY icy and I could feel every twitch and slip with my car and adjust my driving accordingly. The traction control sorta weirded me out. I've heard that in a year or two ALL cars will have traction control...not sure I'm all that thrilled about it. k

a tease about a car.....grrrrr.... I thought it would be zoom-zoom running in shorts and mukluks...dang...

I run in skirts if I'm gonna bare my legs...but perhaps I need to get some mukluks...

We had thought about a Scion...but cruise control didn't appear to be an available option--is that true? We LOVE our little 3. Awesome car. It's like another child. Heck, when our DS turns 16 we will be giving Dash to him as his car (he will still have to pay his own insurance, gas, maintenance). Dash will be 11 by then and perfectly broken-in for a teenager. Yeah, the CX-7 is a very nice looking car...I think all the Mazdas are. Unfortunately the zoom-zoom in the CX-7 requires premium fuel and it gets pretty poor gas mileage. It's not likely a car we would ever look at for those reasons, alone. Too big for our needs, anyhow.

What year is yours? Maybe their website was weird for the '06 models, but when we tried to configure a car using their site we could find no evidence of CC. That was a complete deal-breaker for us. Too bad if it was available...had they made it more apparent we definitely would have gone for a test drive. Those little Scion wagon/van things look like they would haul a heckuvalot of stuff.

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That is really cool looking. I like that better than the older ones. The front end looks sportier.