Does it matter the decision made
Does a man not age and a woman do the same
growing weary of each other yet more in love and more tame.
But with tameness comes knowledge of a thousand torturous thoughts.
Questions and questions and questions and questions
A repetitive sequence, will it ever stop.
One day I too hope to be old and weary, full of tameness which will subside my mental furry.
But until then all just live in the flurry,
for wading though the muck of time and space is better than being stuck in a too familiar place.
Instead he looks and her and she at him and so on and so forth until there is but one face.
All lost in the infinite space yet no repetition in occurs in the lunar gaze and instead we all fall away.
Good day and good night and good luck either way for today or tomorrow or yesterday is all but an eyelash in the lunar gaze.
Now to the business at hand. I have found an unlikely auto which has been hailed by many magazines and I could not understand why until my mom got one as a rental.
That's right another micro car and a japanese one at that. It's called the Nissan Cube, for all who don't know, and I at first was skeptical when I saw it.
The first time I saw the cube was on the pages of Car and Driver in an article on new concepts. I thought it was a Scion Xb wannabe and that I would never want anything to do with one. I then saw another driving one day a year or so later when the car came out and began to become intrigued by its styling. It's not some semi unimaginative box on four wheels which has found a niche because the brand said so its a beast of practicality in funkadelic style.
First from the outside as you can see it is boxy. But if you look at a side profile the car has (as Jeremy Clarkson would say) a Marilyn Monroe booty which protrudes voluptuously asking for you to cop a feel. The front grill is modern and fender flares add a touch of aggressiveness to the cube giving it the external personality of a pussy cat doll. Then there's the wrap around window which brings back the days of 23 window volkswagen buses and ford 5 window coup trucks. Although this one has a pillar behind it which means that structural integrity is still to be found.
Then there's the engine, its an inline four cylinder. It is equipped with 1.8 liters of displacement two cams and direct injection. But most importantly the cube has continuously variable valve timing on the intake side meaning that the cam profile and angles at which the rockers open the valves continually adjust to flow with the drivers rhythm. In my experience with the car this gives the pint sized engine a very torquy feel. Put the pedal to the floor and the pussy cat doll starts growling as if to say, "don't try me fool." This is also backed up by the output numbers which leave the cube with 122 bhp at 5,200 rpm and 127 ftlbs of torque at 4,800 rpm. I will admit that the car is no street ripper but you wont have any trouble merging ahead of the 16 year old in the Honda Civic or the the lifted truck which thinks it can eat your box with four wheels as a snack.
The transmission are a six speed manual, I wish I had used, and a cvt. I drove a cvt equipped car and it was fine, relatively crisp and comfortable. There were no reluctant jerks at low or high speeds and it made the car a nice cruiser. However I do not recommend it because, hey, there's a manual option (imo 10000000000000000000000000000000000000x better every time).
Finally I saved the best for last.
No that's not a space ship which has landed on the roof. And no that's not a headliner exclusive to the custom ssr cube above. This is the mountainously airy roof off all Nissan Cubes. Now you may wonder why I used the adverb mountainously but it's something you will have to feel for your self and it will be the first thing you notice when you get into this magnificent car. The boxy shape means that the cube by logic has a boxy interior which means that when you sit in the drivers seat you feel as if you are in your own space ship. This is not the pod racer feeling you get from sitting in a super car but instead you feel as if you are Captain Kirk in the Star Ship enterprise and you never want to work for priceline. The gauge display is futuristic, the seats comfortable, considering the price, and nothing feels or looks cheap (although it probably is). Also it can be equipped with the always nice ipod interface.
I will say one thing though. If 5 people need to travel in the car on a daily basis this is not your vehicle. The rear seat can accommodate three but it will be an awkward knee touching ride. The trunk is also not deep but it makes up for this in vertical space. Not to mention that the rear seats fold down for extra space.
Overall I recommend that my .23 readers should buy it. They start at $13,900 and that's a hell of a car for hyundai/kia money.
Also being a Clevelander and seeing 23 reminds me f$$$ Lebron, I hope your superstar team drops the ball like the cavs did. (But also being a Clevlander and knowing our natural tendency to get screwed I know they won't, as a result I say it again f@@@ Lebron)
Haha
Well peace
Austen Verrilli
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