What you need is a car with good shocks. If you really don't want to feel the road at all, get one of those gas-guzzling limo type "Big American Cars". It's like driving on a cloud: you will feel nothing, and hear nothing. They're likely to be cheap, now, since the economy has the US manufacturers wanting to ditch them in favor of small, gas efficient cars.
You just have to consider the tradeoff: Rotten Gas Mileage versus feeling the road. Personally I don't have a problem with feeling the road, and would prefer to know if my tire just went in that bottomless pothole. Also, it's sorta fun to try to miss them. But if you prefer to drive in a straight line, and danged with the potholes, you will also have to spend lots of time in the repair shop (even with a new car) because your wheels will never be in alignment, and it's likely various components of your car will bend and/or break.
Oh, and brush up on your parallel parking skills, because with a larger car you either have to be very good at it or else park elsewhere and take a bus into Davis (as of this weekend, when you won't be able to easily park on streets anymore without a permit).
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You just have to consider the tradeoff: Rotten Gas Mileage versus feeling the road. Personally I don't have a problem with feeling the road, and would prefer to know if my tire just went in that bottomless pothole. Also, it's sorta fun to try to miss them. But if you prefer to drive in a straight line, and danged with the potholes, you will also have to spend lots of time in the repair shop (even with a new car) because your wheels will never be in alignment, and it's likely various components of your car will bend and/or break.
Oh, and brush up on your parallel parking skills, because with a larger car you either have to be very good at it or else park elsewhere and take a bus into Davis (as of this weekend, when you won't be able to easily park on streets anymore without a permit).