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MichaelSince Angelika is traveling a lot of miles by car on her work commute every day, and our backup car, Perly Perlman, was decommissioned recently (Rundbrief 02/2016), I purchased a new vehicle for her, a 2011 Honda Fit, which we've nick-named "Brummi". It's a nice, agile commute mule, and it has the unbeatable advantage that you can fold down the rear bench and the passenger seat in such a neat way, that even "Catchy the Wavecatcher", my 9 footer surf board for slow days, fits in with the hatch closed.
The car only has 117 horsepower, but it's so light that I've startled many a Porsche driver with it when the light switched to green. Okay, at mid range speeds, the lack of torque due to the small engine is evident and severly lacks the required oomp, but I've gotten so used to it that I prefer city driving it to my beloved "Rocket" 1998 Integra GSR, a car preferred by Asian teenagers and our successor of the legendary Perly Perlman. Its engine its screaming until 8000 rpms, and those 170 horsepower developed during that stage feel like you're driving the Rallye Monte Carlo.
It's been a long standing tradition for me to buy the most outragious and colorful seat covers for our cars possible. This time, my eye caught the bright red Hawaiian Covers sold by "Totally Covers" on Amazon. While normal run-off-the-mill seat covers come in one-size-fits-all and fit more or less on different car seats, this company offers a "semi custom fit" for the unbeatable price of $99.99 per pair, tailored for the seat size of a specific car. I just added the make, model, and year of our car to the order, and after about a week, I received the covers by mail. They came with matching head rest covers, and the seat parts had the required openings for the side airbags embedded in the seats to deploy, and even knew about the unusual arm rest on protruding from the right side of the driver seat in the Honda Fit. Fits like a glove!
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