We went to a wedding over on the eastern shoreline of CT today, so we put about 170 miles on the car and brought it up over 1000 miles. For the first time ever I heard the center console squeak. My husband was driving and he had his leg over leaning against the side there, and we had a bottle of water and a soda in the cupholders. Usually when I drive I have nothing in the cupholders and I don't lean my leg there. If I took the bottle of water out and he moved his leg it stopped squeaking. Anyhow, I guess we will be asking the dealership to do something about that, because hubby can't stand the squeak. My solution: turn up the stereo .

We actually went out of our way to get over into the far left lane so we could get a closer look at a car that we thought (from a distance in the rear view) was another Jasper Pearl TCH. It turned out to be a Silver Pine Mica Avalon, which we realized when it got closer . On more than one occasion on our trip from my vantage point in the passenger seat, I saw drivers of other vehicles checking out the hybrid badges on my TCH. It was either that, or they had some real interest in the front passenger tire... .

FE on this tank with 201 miles is 39.6, which I think is really good considering that today's trip was mostly highway.