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		<title>Nissan Altima Hybrid &#8211; my thoughts so far</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I explained in my last blog post, we bought a new Nissan Altima Hybrid a couple of days ago. My impressions of it so far: &#34;Interesting&#34; route choices on the Navigation system: some of its recommendations have been spot-on, but others have just been in the &#34;wth?&#34; category. It was able to recommend the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I explained in my last blog post, we bought a new Nissan Altima Hybrid a couple of days ago. My impressions of it so far:</p>
<p><b>&quot;Interesting&quot; route choices on the Navigation system</b>: some of its recommendations have been spot-on, but others have just been in the &quot;wth?&quot; category. It was able to recommend the fastest (in my experience) route from Marlboro to Grafton (495 S to the Pike, btw), but downtown Worcester to Grafton was just bizarre. It decided it didn&#8217;t like 290 or 146, and instead sent me on 122A, where I needed to wait at a school crossing for 4-5 minutes. It also couldn&#8217;t find the Worcester Registry of Motor Vehicles, so I had to look up the address manually and then enter it in. I haven&#8217;t started the XM-Traffic trial yet, so this performance may improve.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s <b>less gas-efficient</b> than I thought it would be. I&#8217;m still getting pretty good mpg, but in order to get the top efficiency, it&#8217;s actually a bit of work; very slow and steady acceleration and moderate speed are the only way to produce the best results.</p>
<p>The <b>CD changer</b> (MP3 compatible) doesn&#8217;t seem to like discs with more than 660MB of data. I wasted two CD&#8217;s figuring this out.. the first was pushing the limit at 725MB (overburn), but I thought the second at 690MB would work. Once I got a disc working, though, it <b>sounded great</b>.</p>
<p>The keyless entry is very cool &#8211; the only trouble is, <b>where do you put your key-chain while you&#8217;re driving</b>?? I&#8217;ve been plopping them in the drink holder in the center console for now.</p>
<p><b>Daylight Running Lights is a Canadian-model-only thing</b>. I guess it&#8217;s understandable with the strain on the engine/battery, but I got used to my lights being on all the time in the Honda. On the Altima, the &quot;Auto&quot; headlight setting turns the lights on when it senses it&#8217;s dark out, but I haven&#8217;t yet experienced how it will function in cloudy, rainy, or foggy weather. I&#8217;m tempted to just block the light sensor and have it function with the lights on all the time for safety.</p>
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