Originally Posted by houstondan

congrats. i bought my black '04 new and just passed 42,000 miles.

just love this car.

i'll be doing my 3rd set of back tires ($300 ish ea.) soon then my 3rd fronts about a year later. maybe less. just did front brakes and rotors @ $700 and the car is still as solid as the day i broke it in. everything works fine, nothing is showing any significant wear and i fully expect to die with this car. i'm now 60 and i don't smoke.

i've driven very many very long trips; i had a 16 hr run to iowa i did routinely for a couple of years and did vegas to houston straight thru once, and this is just the most comfortable, effortless-to-drive, car i've ever had.

that's probably worth noting. this car is so responsive that you can be very comfortable making minute movements to make it do a lot. kind of like automotive dressage'.

if you get a chance; take it somewhere safe and do an 85-to-zero panic stop.

scary cool.

then, and this is hard to do but you will sooner or later, in a hard rain with ponding, carefully push the speed up to where you expect the light car on huge-wide tires might begin to hydro-plane. feel that? the thing is hydroplaning but the computer is hitting the brakes on individual corners and setting it back on course. really, same stuff that keeps the f-22 raptor from going ziggy.

one thing to keep an eye on is the windshield. very soft. if you've got good insurance then maybe someone will accidentally drop a brick on it or something. i should have done that. late afternoon into the sun is entertaining.

when i bought it, i told a friend that we'd check out the competing and faster, asians in a few years and see how they're holding up. i wonder...

dan...congrats again.