[Neanderthal]

Thank you kamkiM, you have unparallelled taste regarding test writeups.

There's an error in my above post, in that it was an SX I drove rather than an EX. Drove an EX today, but it was all snowy and slushy and my wife was aboard and Bondurant-ish maneuvers tend to make her a bit skittish, so I kept it sane and nane.
There's a lot of KIA--I prefer to call it VIK--cash on this leftover 2007 black EX, and we might just pick this puppy up along with a Rondo!, which is Italian for "You wantta yoo-a olives on the side-a with-a spaghetti-O?"
While I've never actually studied Italian, my cousin lived in Italy for a few years when her husband was stationed there driving Ferraris amd flying whirlybirds. So I think I'm pretty qualified to talk about olives.
At any rate, this EX is going for about twelve-five plus the slick little add-ons like lifetime sealed muffler bearing bear grease, free five-year membership in The Ad-hoc Committee for Peace, Freedom, and Empty Hope, a free participatory in the Curtis Turner Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Cruise with Brock Yates as Curtis Turner, document fee, finance guy's lake house mortgage fee, and dealer balloon fee.
I will keep the breathless ones out there posted regarding progress on the new wheels, which BTW are equipped with some of the worst-rated tyres produced by any earthling manufacturer known to Art Bell, Goodyear Eagle LS in the 195.60.15 size. Anyone who wants to work a swap, send me a Vibe.