Yay, the new Subaru Forester is here! Today is the first day I've seen it during the daylight hours and I have to admit, it looks grand. Even my wife, who didn't want to get the "Camellia Red Pearl", said it is a very nice color. On the Subaru website, the red looked much brighter, although looking at it on my monitor, it doesn't look that different.
Still getting the seat adjusted. While having a bunch of adjustments is nice, it can be tough to get it set up just so. Luckily, I'm the one that will be driving it 90% of the time (maybe even more), although I guess that was for the Mazda, and my wife hasn't tried the Forester yet. A couple early impressions:
- Getting the key in and out of the ignition is more of a pain than I would like. It's tucked underneath a bit and can be tough to see. Yet another reason to have wanted the keyless ignition.
- The Bluetooth phone is just too cool. Not having to fumbled around with the phone to talk on it is really nice. I still have to set up the voice dialing, but even still, it works great.
- But the Bluetooth insists on starting up the media on my G1 when I use it, which is a pain.
- I create a music MP3 USB thumbdrive and that's pretty great. Just plug it into the USB jack and it plays! Slight disappointment that it doesn't read the MP3 tags, unlike the MP3 player in the Honda Accord rental.
- The moonroof is huge! It goes almost all the way over the backseat. It doesn't have the tilt option, like the Mazda one did, though.
- Still find it a little strange I needed to add the fog lamps extra, but they work fine.
One more step and I'll be done with this whole "totaled" car thing - return the rental. Oh, I guess actually the final step will be to submit the rental bill to the other driver's insurance company. But most of the hard work is done and I'm looking forward to some snow this weekend!
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