The family kept the truck and the tent trailer connected to to it while they stayed on the beach in Santa Barbara for an extra week...
I rented a Oldmibile Alero from Santa Barbara for the trip home to SF.
Yeah sure it was a rocket :-)
But it felt like my balls were scraping the pavement all the way home and I could not see very well out of it because I am a tall person and I felt like I was driving a fish bowl (low, untinted windows)
The 11 gallons of gas it took to make the ~320 mile trip was a surprise
considering the velocity it was travelling at...
The bottom line though is that I'm a truck guy.
I'd have traded that puppy back without a single thought if I could have driven the truck home.
Sure it goes fast, handles great, gets good gas milage, but I felt like a 'victem' the whole trip.
My truck has everything I need for most any situation...the car was...well a car.
('ordinary' people drive cars)