Yeah, it's not a car for commuters that occasionally want to beat their co-worker from a stoplight. It's a driver's car, and a fun one at that. I pretty much only turn my radio on when I'm cruising at constant speed on the highway, or when the girlfriend is riding along and I'm taking it easy. The rest of the time I'd much rather be listening to the car.
I've even grown to like the loud fenderwells. It gives me an extra point of data to drive by. On most of the streets around here, the strip of pavement between the usual driving line and the curb has more accumulated dust/rocks than the center of street does, getting markedly worse as you approach curb impact, so hearing the sound of a small amount of dirt kicking up into the fenderwells helps let me know how close I'm carving towards the curb.
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