well this weekend we did the first real test with the car...

• going to jack london national park
• hitting the oil pan while parking, lesson: if you park next to a jetta, this thing is roughly 60 cm shorter than the passat, so don't measure the distance by it...
• driving in berryessa with a tip tronic and a strong engine is a lot of fun, Ashley sitting next to me enjoyed it and felt safe. But the car feels extremly heavy in the curves and the back tends to push a bit to much for my liking
• while passing other cars cops were more than happy to check my speed with there laser pistols for me, but did not pull me over. After all I was only slighlty faster than the speed limit and it was obious that I was passing a slower vehicle. You also could say I got lucky...
• the average gas mileage over 250 miles was 23 mpg (10l/100km). Which was highway/city/hills
• the dreaded check engine light came back on, right after I got gas again. I start to hate the electronical system in the passat.

now I really consider taking the passat to the race track on friday and get some track lessons and really learn how to handle this car.

well never mind, I ended up buying the sony and it works surprisingly well and is fast enough after updating it to the newest software version.

Sadly I could only get it in silver = reflects shiny things and not in dark blue, but already filled it up with 20 novels...

Basically a nice mixtures of Alexandre Dumas, Jack London, Oscar Wilde and Jules Verne.

The biggest difference to a book? It seems to read a bit slower and you have no real feeling of progress. Like switching pages and seeing were you are in a book.

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Why did I buy it?

• cheaper than the kindle 2 by 150$
• i don't need space for 2k books on a reader, 10 - 15 books is all I need and I can always pop sd cards in it
• it comes with a cover
• i don't really like the kindle layout
• supposed to be more stable
• speed is fast enough, as long as the books are not pdf's
• not planning on buying books in the next 5 month