i had the car in pdx for a week recently. nice ride, especially the heated seats, but the lack of power was a bit unnearving when trying to get up some of those hills as you make it out of PDX towards the coast or when you try to do a jump to "light speed" at from a stop sign and the car just moans at you.
the ride was very quiet and smooth though even with my vehicle that had 14000 miles on it - about half the life of a rental car.
Do these cars have stability control? I ask becsaue it didn't seem to be working on my ride. The tire blew on the rainy interstate and the car immediently began to get very loose. It didn't help it was it the lightly loaded rear which on most wagons can float around pretty easilly.