Biggest pet peeve of the Mirage? (Annoyances)

[AtomicPunk]

1st gear way too short and better seats for roadtrips... Anything else? Oh yeah, magic seats like the fit would be cool.

Aren't the magic seats so cool? I think the Outlander 2nd row has something similar. I miss my old 07 Fit sometimes...

[MirageRally]

Some of the most cool cars were really the older ones haha if old is cool then I'm an ancient museum

[MetroMPG]

Here's another winter-related one: the car seems pretty cold-blooded.

From a block heater-assisted start (~75F coolant indicated), the little sewing machine never got above 110F on a 5 km (3 mi) total round trip to the grocery store in -10C / 14F outside temps.

My parents' 2006 4-cyl automatic Camry on the other hand is blowing warm air from the heater within 1.5 km from the same cold start, with NO block heater.

Then again, their monster 2.4L mill uses almost 3x the fuel for the same round trip. I guess we know where the heat comes from.

[MetroMPG]

Almost forgot, I like that the rear hatch handle matches the others. How cool is that?????

Ha - never noticed.

[7milesout]

Pet-Peeve / Aggravations:

• The reach under door handles. I have to bend over (somewhat) to grasp them.
• The overly short 1st gear and big space into 2nd gear.
• No dome lamp to light up the rear seat area.
• The location of the Cruise Control Cancel button, and the lack of tactile feel to it.

That's all I can think of right now. None of them are anything I can't live with.

[MetroMPG]

Re: door handles - how tall are you?

Alternatively:

[7milesout]

6 foot 2 inches.

[MirageRally]

I'm 5"3' 100lbs. Sometimes I do wish that I sat just a tad taller. And I do wish that the seats held you in a little bit while going around corners... I seem to slide right out of them

[Dirk Diggler]

I'm 5"3' 100lbs. Sometimes I do wish that I sat just a tad taller. And I do wish that the seats held you in a little bit while going around corners... I seem to slide right out of them

Yeah but your the perfect size for the Mirage. I mean this is a world car and the majority of the world isn't on avg, morbidly obese, unlike Murica. When I was in France one thing I noticed was a fat person wasn't easily spotted on the street at all. I really had to look.

[MirageRally]

I think of myself as a mini Santa Claus LOL. I'm certainly not fat but I definitely have a little belly that keeps me insulated in the winter