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Old Mar 11, 2010 | 6:19 pm
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I've temporarially dropped to Emerald, so taking notice of a new set of vehicles. The ever-present HHR and Ford Focus were readily available. I took a '10 Prius - which is finally just the slightest bit exciting with the accelerator problem. Sadly I didn't get to experience any of that excitement. As an aside, I'd be happy just getting some INTENDED acceleration. Getting on 70E you have 1/4 mile to accelerate to speed with traffic and cross over four lanes to get in the LEFT lane to take that sharp-ish left exit onto 170N. Pretty darn frightening in a Prius. When you look over and your only gap involves flooring it to within 200' of the turn, that's bad enough. The braking and cornering that follow as you try to navigate the exit - even worse.

Annoyingly, someone screwed up checking me out as my receipt showed vehicle class driven: SCARH and vehicle class charged: SCARH, even though I picked it up on the emerald aisle with an SCAR rental. Had to go inside and wait for two particularly unhelpful employees to take their sweet time not processing any customers. After ten minutes of seeing them not get anything done and mostly socializing with their friends who were purportedly there to rent cars, the manager finally came out and helped me.

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