by Lucas Elke
Here at CarEnvy.ca, we’ve been skilled lucky enough to test drive some nippy cars and some zippy cars. A week with a flashy new car can be compared to spending seven blissful days with a girl who is out-of-your-league sexy. Your friends and family can’t believe it and constantly tease you about the amount of money you’re paying her to be your arm candy. You stay up late spending time with her/it, and talk about her/it at every occasion. When you wake-up, you’re excited to get back inside and take it for another spin.
Unfortunately, for almost every invigorating week we spend with a beautiful piece of engineering, there’s a boring and bland, seemingly passionless, jaunt with a less-endowed companion. As similar as a week with a great car is to a week with a great woman, the opposite is hauntingly true for the vehicles that we “pick straws” to drive around town. You grudgingly putz around while dreams of your last test car float out of the exhaust. No one calls to hang out because no one wants to spend time with you and your new demo. It’s nothing more than another notch on the ol’ test driving belt, but an important benchmarking tool nonetheless. Alas, my week with the 2011 Jeep Compass…