{"id":201,"date":"2005-08-31T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2005-08-31T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T17:01:47","slug":"more-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"More First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few more things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rear visibility certainly is poor but not nearly as bad as I expected. I have had to adjust my driving style a little to accommodate not being able to see over my shoulder but I have always been attentive to the traffic around me so it hasn&#8217;t been a big issue. Parallel parking on the other hand is more of a challenge as I just can&#8217;t tell how close I am to the car behind me.<\/li>\n<li>The windows seem to go down faster than before<\/li>\n<li>The fuel guage acts differently. Before, I would get about 100 miles at the first mark, 160 at the second mark, 300 miles near empty. Now I get 140 at the first mark, 220 at the second mark, and 320 near empty.<\/li>\n<li>Fuel consumption is bad, best I&#8217;ve done so far after three fillups is 23.5 mpg and that was with almost all highway driving. My &#8217;02 typically got 26mpg without trying. I hope this will get better as the engine breaks-in.<\/li>\n<li>Radio reception is poor, craps out often even in San Diego. Don&#8217;t know if this is a fault or just common with the model. My XM Direct hasn&#8217;t arrived yet so am using the iPod for the time being which works great through the aux input.<\/li>\n<li>Haven&#8217;t been able to get the Universal Remote to work with my garage door opener yet, need to work that out as I hate fiddling with the regular remote<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few more things: The rear visibility certainly is poor but not nearly as bad as I expected. I have had to adjust my driving style a little to accommodate not being able to see over my shoulder but I have always been attentive to the traffic around me so it hasn&#8217;t been a big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More First Impressions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}