Car Review – 2006 KIA Optima
Due to my crash last month, I had the bumper on my 1998 Toyota Camry V6 LE replaced, courtesty of the other driver’s insurance. While my car was in the shop, I drove a new KIA Optima LX. The LX is for “Luxury.” It had just over 1000 miles on it, and the new car smell was a bit much at times.
The color was the Deep Ocean Blue. Very nice color. I think my next car will be that color if the choice is available. First thing I noticed was this car was pretty peppy. Either peppy, or the accelerator pedal was improperly calibrated, because I just tapped it and was almost rocketed into another car in the Enterprise lot. Anyway that took some getting used to.
A feature that appealed to me was the ability to turn off the front passenger airbag. Handy if you need to have a kid in the front seat. You can also control the sound system from the steering wheel. Nice to have one less distraction while driving, once you get the hang of using the controls without looking at them. The rear passenger seat had a large pulldown armrest with storage inside, which is handy if you have two kids back there who squabble now and then. Of course who gets to use the storage? Ok maybe not a good thing.
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