I can’t remember the name of the Dodge that we’re renting.  I keep calling it a Cobalt, which is wrong, it isn’t Cobalt, that’s a Chevy.  I think it starts with a ‘C’ but it doesn’t matter, because pretty much anything I come up with for a name falls short of its actual name [Randy Scurries off across the World Wide Web to dodge.com]. Caliber!  It is the Dodge Caliber.  Which seems to overstate the actual niceness of the car.  Maybe it is just the model we got but the whole interior is just a convoluted mess of plastic.

I want to retract my visibility statement from before by 1/3.  When you raise up the seat of the drivers seat you can see much more because your head is at a better height to survey your surroundings.  I still don’t like the car though.  The model we got must have a smaller engine than our old Honda because the thing is a gutless wonder.  I don’t hate this car, there are parts of it that are nice.  The back seat area is roomier than the Honda’s back seat.  The cargo space in the back is nice.  We had to get new car seats since the old ones were in the accident with us so we put the old ones in the cargo space and had room for 3 small elephants to boot (very, very tiny elephants.  In fact they were just in my imagination).  We couldn’t have done that in our Honda.  Technically I could have left them in the Baby’s ‘R’ Us parking lot but decided that I didn’t want to get in trouble for littering.

Another thing that bugs me is that the car stereo has to be cranked up to sound even remotely good.  Yes, I changed the three-band equalizer, but the thing just simply sounds bassy, which might be good if I was listening to hip-hop, but not so good when I am listening to the lyrical stylings of Missy Higgins.  Many of her songs have a simple accompaniment and it was hard to hear anything but her voice.  Jessica hadn’t heard the album before and didn’t particularly care for it.  I told her that it actually sounds good on every other sound source I’ve listened to it on.
I’m glad to have a rental car so that we’re not taking the bus or walking (though I am glad we even have a bus to ride on here) but this is not a car I will be buying for my own personal use any time in the future.