It’s been a while since I’ve regularly driven a car and when I say a while, we’re talking at least 12 years! As a lifelong snow belt resident I’ve become a fan of the SUV just to deal with the onslaught of snow we get each season. So you can imagine that driving a Chevy Cruze on the regular has been quite an adjustment. Even entering the car takes some getting used to. I’m a creature of habit and just the change of sitting down instead of climbing up thew me off my game.
As I’m getting used to life with the Cruze I have come to appreciate some of its finer points. One being the ginormous trunk. This little bugger has some definite junk in its trunk. Over the weekend I went grocery shopping with my boyfriend making stops at Giant Eagle and Whole Foods and although we bought a ton of food, in the Cruze’s trunk it looked like nothing.
Another thing I’m loving is the gas mileage. I live in area where highways are a pain to get to so I do a lot of city driving. In my regular vehicle I’m lucky if I see 16 mpg so when I checked the average MPGs on my Cruze and saw 27, I nearly fainted. One thing’s for certain, I won’t be at the gas station very much over the next few weeks.
Of course given the freezing temps of late the remote start and heated seats have been a blessing. Even when I forget to start the car in advance I use the remote start, just because I can. Last Friday, after dining at one of my fave Cleveland restaurants, L’Albatros, I ran out the front door to start the car and two women passing by exclaimed in unison that, “[They] want that!” Don’t we all.
