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And I hate their blue-rich eye searing headlights to.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

it has “sport mode” but even in eco mode it can vastly exceed the performance necessary to drive within legal limits

So my Kia crossover (needed ground clearance for rough unplowed rural roads at the time) has that, and I've found for most of the year it stays in Eco mode, I'll pop it into Sport mode if I'm visiting a large city like Chicago or Milwaukee and moving through a busy highway interchange to better accelerate and decelerate as I work through crazy traffic to make my needed lane changes, then in the coldest winter days I'll use Normal mode until it's up to temperature because in Eco mode the engine never warms up if it's below 0 out (I actually once watched the temperature dial go down as I went downhill into a valley once when it was around -10-15 out)