A Car Ride Like No Other

        When I gently pressed the remote starter, the 5.5 liter V8 engine came to a roaring start. If power could be captured in a sound, it would be this car’s engine running. Stepping into the driver’s seat I was amazed how the interior is equally as stunning as the outside. Sitting in the soft black leather seat, looking at the eight inch LCD screen in the dashboard and the walnut wood trim, I felt as if I was sitting at a comfortably furnished office desk with a high-speed computer.  Night-vision camera display in the dashboard, voice-activated navigation, automatic adjusting seats, a harman/kardon sound system, it literally had everything you could ask for in a car.  All these features controlled by the various multifunction buttons on the steering wheel, for my easiest convenience, of course. I turned on the stereo, which played with superior sound and clarity, and I put the car in reverse. The screen in the dashboard then turned into a rear-view camera, and I backed out of my driveway without even turning my head. It drove like no other car I had driven before. It felt as though the car drove itself, and with cruise control sensors that can keep pace even in stop-and-go traffic, it actually did drive itself. Although coasting around with the windows down, playing music, and watching heads turn was absolute glory, I wanted to see what the car could really do, so I headed for the highway.

 I put the windows up, accelerated and took off. With its sound-proof sealing and superior steering and balance control, the only way I could tell how fast I was going was by the speedometer. The car handled perfectly and rode smoothly even at higher speeds.  I knew I was driving the car the way it was meant to be driven. It put me in another place, a very relaxed yet aware state, with a great sense of power and control. It was at that time I truly realized I wasn’t driving just any car.  I was driving a car that you could drive for no reason, with no destination; you could drive it simply just to drive.

Exiting the highway was like coming to the last stretch of a roller-coaster, all of my adrenaline coming down from an incomparable high. I slowly drove back to my house, reluctant to bring the ride to an end. Like landing a plane, I brought the car to a stop in my driveway, put it into park, and exited the most amazing machine I’d ever operated. It was a car ride like no other.