Kudos to the well written piece.
Your write up is very similar to the emotions I have for my Accent GLX 2001. Very faithful and very agile like a cheetah. Great car and the chasis does take a lot of load. The only minus is the ground clearing which like all humans do, we have to make sure the steerings and the wheels move well to avoid the heartburn of a underbelly scrapping. Some speedbreakers in mumbai are nothing short of a car breaker but my Betsy manages well.
Cars love the highways a lot.In my earlier Nissan car, of the 30000 miles, almost 26000 came from interstate driving. The baby was smooth as silk. The guy at the dealership just could not believe the ride quality. Sniff, I miss her.
But Betsy, all black and chic, does give many other cars a run. I often have these duels with the higher end cars at the signals on my commute and often the chase is won on the higher engine displacement. Ordinary cars like the city/ford/swift, are quite convincingly pulped many a time.
I just put her new shoes Michellin XM1+ about two months ago at 45000 odo replacing the aged 8 year old OEM S322s which by the way still had some rubber. The dealer actually gave me 300 bucks for them!
My FE used to be around 13-14 now hovers around 12. Must be because my average speed of drive moved up from a safe 70-80 cruizing to a 90-100 kmph menacing chaser
Love my car and hope to see you get the 150000 mark together. I am at 50k and will race you there and we can exchange notes then ;-)
