Wednesday 30 August 2017

Housewife Car Review:2017 KIA Sorento

Finally, I got a new toy for the weekend. This time Enterprise provided me with a 2017 KIA Sorento. We had a busy schedule and I didn't have enough time to go through the dashboard and all its features. Nevertheless, 300 km in two days is good enough to get an opinion about this car.
In terms of driving, in my rating it is on the second place after Lexus IS250. That Lexus is being missed a lot  But let's go back to Sorento.



Housewife's Car Review: 2016 Hyundai Veloster

This one will be about the strangest car I ever drove. Just a week before I got it from a rental company, my daughter mentioned that she had a ride on a car with three doors. That didn't sound right, but a week later I was driving a 3 door, four seat car. 




The 2016 Hyundai Veloster is an excellent city car! It has one door on the driver's side and two on the other. It has a "panoramic sunroof" which actually means a transparent roof turning into a rear window. It makes the view from the back mirror a bit weird. 




Tuesday 29 August 2017

Housewife's Car Review: 2016 Fiat 500c

Today I will talk about my recent experience with a Fiat 500c.
I needed a car urgently, but instead of getting a compact sedan (Toyota Yaris equivalent), I got a convertible Fiat 500c. Actually, "convertible" was Discount's excuse for the downgrade without money compensation. 
It is a tiny, funny and fancy model, and surprisingly it is still a car. Easy to park, opening the roof is extremely cute, could be a nice car for someone driving in downtown Toronto (or somewhere in California). It's really a two-seater even though it has two more at the back. Those seats are more suitable for a purse than for a person. Even my child refused to sit there and occupied a front seat. It has a trunk, but the size is almost the same as a glove box in crossovers.

Housewife's Car Review: 2016 Dodge Journey R/T

Woo-hoo! It is time for a new review. Just a quick reminder – my reviews are very subjective, I just share a personal experience with different cars that I happened to drive.
Last weekend I got Dodge Journey R/T 2016– a crossover designed by Fiat-Chrysler.
3.6 L engine, AWD, 7 seats.

Housewife's Car Review: 2015 Nissan Pathfinder

We had great 3 days and 375 kilometers together. Pathfinder is an excellent car for travel, camping, going far with a lot of people (it has 7 seats). Alison was sleeping at the back seat as on the couch when it got cold in the tent. Tent, sleeping bags and other stuff were almost invisible in the trunk. 

Housewife's Car Review: 2015 Chevrolet Cruze

This time I got what I was asking for. I mean, guys offered a good car, but I ask for a low gas consumption one. Choice was between Yaris and Cruze. I took Chevy Cruze.
Not a bad car. Had a ride in it before, got the same feeling now - too narrow, space between front seats isn't comfortable. (Actually, same applies to Chevy Volt - I don't like design of the cup holders and else between seats.) Other than that, feels nice on the road, very smooth and sensitive to steering wheel, good performance for a small fellow.

Housewife's Car Review: 2017Chevrolet Traverse

I am writing "housewife's car reviews". I rent different cars, but my opinion is subjecting, because my understanding of car's beauty and comfort is pretty different from the standard one. 
First of all, guys from Enterprise car rentals confirmed that if you book a small car for a weekend and come to pick it up on Friday evening, most likely you will get an SUV or a crossover for the price of a small car, because everybody else prefers to take a car in the morning and by the evening they don't have any sedans. I  Enterprise!

Replacing engine air filter

 Hello!  Covid-19 made a lot of adjustments in my lifestyle,  but no matter how bad the lockdown is the car still requires a maintenance. To...