Chloe (my 2007 Honda Civic) is over 2 years old now. So, it's time for another update. After 2 years of ownership I have to say there's really not anything I'm particularly annoyed or bothered about. I haven't had any trouble. Sadly, I did not make it out of Utah without any damage being done. After the bowling trip of a few weeks ago mentioned on siblings' blogs (I bowled a 190! Holy Cow!) I noticed that someone slammed their car door into my passenger door. Honestly, how hard do people open their doors? You'd have to be swinging pretty hard to make the dent that is now on my car. The panels are designed to take bumps and such, so a dent like this really must have taken some force. I was a bit annoyed by that. I parked in a spot with no cars on either side of me, so someone parked next to me and then whipped their door into my car, lame.

Anyways, aside from that the only other damage is some small chips in the paint due to rocks on the highway, I would assume. Thus far I have yet to sustain any chips in my windshield, I'm hoping to make it out of Utah without needing to replace the windshield.

Here are the latest stats of interest. Gas prices dropped significantly last fall. I'm currently paying about $2.25 per gallon for 87/88 octane. Surprisingly gas was actually about the same price in California. There was probably about a 10 cents difference for 87/88 octane gas.

The trip to California is the first very long distance trip in my car (I'm not counting driving to Rexburg, Idaho as very long distance). I was pleased to see that for the long stretches of highway driving I was able to get upwards of 40 miles to the gallon. That's a real world number while driving ~75 across Nevada, Utah, and California on I-80, not too shabby. The EPA estimate for the 2009 Civic highway driving is 36. The best tank was from Winnemucca, NV to Sunnyvale, CA; which achieved 42.088 miles to the gallon, and that includes crossing the Sierra-Nevada mountains.

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