While I agree with you that Subaru should do that, what you described is a GR Corolla competitor rather than GR Yaris, unless they manage to cut several hundred pounds out of the WRX and shorten it into a 2 door.

Well that’s exactly what I needed. Even more reasons to be sad we don’t get it in Canada. Thanks Toyota.

And no, the Corolla is not an acceptable substitute. It’s cool enough, but 2 extra doors and 500 extra pounds do not an equivalent car make.

Supra is probably the correct choice here, unless you want to occasionally cram extra humans in the car. Then it’s probably a used 911 of some form, or a pony car.

I’m really loving the trend in recent years of enthusiast cars having strong demand for manual transmissions. I think the people who buy fast cars for bragging rights etc have mostly moved onto electric vehicles, so the people still buying M2s are proportionally more enthusiasts who care about the experience.

You can’t compare the Evo to the WRX. You have to compare it to the STi only. Looking at it that way, 195 vs 118 on Autotrader is pretty comparable.

Mitsubishi never really made a proper lower tech, upgradeable and tunable car at the WRX price point (arguably the ralliart in the X generation was, but too little too…

I’m sure they could make a higher power FA, yeah. I think that’s less an emissions question and more a ‘the accountants don’t think it’s worth it for the number of STIs they would sell’ question.

The STI still had the old EJ series - it’ll be substantially worse in terms of emissions than the new wrx motor given that it was around 30+ years ago.

Could they make a higher power version of the new FA engines and make a new STI? Maybe. But they don’t want to.

It’s absolutely not an STI with a WRX motor. The whole heart of the STI was the advanced drivetrain - unless they’ve snuck the DCCD back into this car without us noticing it’s still just a fancy WRX.

The government mandates are for new cars only. If you’re poor as dirt, you probably aren’t buying a new car regardless.

Not quite. Apple does not allow any form of alternative store on their product, and that’s fine.

Oh, yes. If there’s one company that can absolutely make an interface that is less buggy than Apple, it’s GM. Thank goodness we’ll be rid of that buggy mess that is carplay

Coming from Canada, I’ve never seen public transit that is not extremely dysfunctional after a major snowfall. And waiting for the plows to come through your little residential street could be a matter of days.

I don’t really consider the Prowler a ‘90s car’. I know production started right at the end of the 90s so technically it fits, but I think in ethos it was the tip of the early 2000s retro car phase that gave us the PT Cruiser, HHR, and SSR, before arguably continuing with the FJ Cruiser, Camaro re-release, and retro…

Because a turbo costs twice what a cybertruck does? I’d be much more interested to see base Carrera vs Cybertruck around the ring. I’d still certainly expect the truck to lose but it’d be a more interesting contest with the power advantage it has.

Vehicle that costs the same as a Porsche beats Porsche in drag race while towing another Porsche?

I mean, it’s impressive, if nothing else. All drag races are spectacle, really.

This is one of those ones that could go either way. If it doesn’t require taking the engine apart beyond the intake manifold, NP. Do the fuel injectors (all 16!), starter, coil packs while the manifold is off. Fuel pumps and the wiring for them also go bad.

Easy: Window = ideal napping. You get the wall of the plane / window to stick your pillow/jacket against. That’s my #1 priority on a plane.

Getting to watch the takeoff/landing is also a bonus, especially if you’re sitting somewhere you can see the workings of the wing.

Y’know, it’s funny, I’m actually substantially more onboard with this than cars that have ICE engines but still pipe fake sound in through the speakers.

So long as it’s sufficiently faster than all the other cars, I think a lot of time attack events could be considered ‘non-competitive’ if you had this.

This. The Model S can be compared to a BMW. The Model 3 should be compared to a Toyota Camry.