Old car outside:
Old car inside:
New car outside:
New car inside:
So, yeah. Big change.
My 1999 old car’s engine was starting to go awol at traffic lights, stalling to zero noise and back. Probably a small piece to change but as its MPG is bad, and that my mechanic was like “I’m afraid your lil shitty ass car is not interesting to nobody”, it was time to go ahead and upgrade a vehicle. 500 miles shy from 100,000 miles.
The 2023 Haroldmobile is such a massive change, it is shocking. Switching from RWD to FWD is so great. Sticking to the road like glue.
The wild thing at first was getting used to the hybrid car making zero noise at traffic lights. “Oh God not again I just BOU right, electric mode he he”. This happened more times than I’d like to acknowledge, but whatever.
The absence of constant vibrations when driving is both fantastic and something odd. There’s no physicality with the new car, outside of the wind with the windows down.
I was driving the old car. Feeling it. Looking at its needles move predictably. “Launching” it to use momentum to pass a hill.
Now I just zip through things. No noise. Just gliding effortlessly, listening to the sound of my music sounding better than ever.
I pilot a 2D spaceship full of beeps and boops, robotic voices and telemetry tracking my ass. I used to drive a small truck without a functional oil gauge. X-wing VS Millenium Falcon.
It’s dope and weird and kind of sad and exciting at once.