I got the opportunity to experience one at a dealer a few months ago. It was a fairly optioned out AWD 2.0T, so I can’t really comment on the hybrid one. The interior was very well executed cheap-and-cheerful. More like “this is inexpensive and we’re not hiding it,” so it lacks a lot of the things that make cheap cars…

Don’t think about it in the context of how it would work scientifically. Think about it in the context of how it would make you feel. If you can’t stop looking at it, you can’t focus your attention on anything else. It becomes the only thing in your universe besides yourself. It’s just you and the thing that will…

That would be nice. I dug my (second, to replace my dead launch day) Wii out to play through the Prime Trilogy. Who knows how long that poor thing will last and all that stuff is totally lost to me because Nintendo can’t be bothered?

Preserving something where its entire point is to be experienced is a waste. If nobody can access it, it effectively doesn’t exist.

The way you see it isn’t unreasonable, but the problem is that’s not how the law sees it.

I wish Nintendo put half the effort into preserving old games that they put into grinding into dust people who try to do it for them when they refuse. I get protecting your IP is important, but if you can’t be bothered to sell something anymore and people still want it, just make it officially available for free or…

Rattle-can paint job, engine with issues, still has an automatic. This whole thing screams “I can’t be bothered.” Then they ask for $13k.

It’s been like this for decades. It’s not going to get fixed by one administration, especially considering that it’d be career suicide for politicians to vote for legislation that’d fix it. Remember, nothing is more American than “Business über Alles.”

I know a lady who had owned a Studebaker that she put a Cadillac engine into. She claims she was able to register it as a Studelac.

German engineering stopped being “German engineering” when they discovered plastic.

Having done the job twice on an Outback with an EJ25D, once on a Forester with an EJ253, and once on a Legacy with an EJ22, I can say it varies. The Outback was a nightmare. The Forester was just inconvenient. The Legacy was easy. I currently have a Legacy 3.6R that needed plugs. I looked into it and decided I really…

*agrees in E46 coupe.*

Except…they don’t drive terribly. They’re fine. To be honest, the five CVT bearing Subarus the various people in my family have all drive better than mine with a 5EAT does. It’s true that they’re not sporty. Thing is, Subarus generally aren’t. You could put a DCT in them and all you’d get is fast shifts. If you think…

I don’t believe even for a second that the skills are so specialized that they can’t be parlayed into something else.

It’s weird to write a comment that’s just like every other comment written by stans and expect it to come across as a joke.

Somehow I doubt those people’s skillsets are so narrow that all they can do is build Jeff Bezo’s silly boat.

It’s normally considered bad form to go for the sensitive spots, but I believe this situation operates in the same vein as this quote by Malcolm Reynolds: “They say you should never strike a man with a closed fist, but it is, on occasion, hilarious.”

Lots of people are employed digging up coal, drilling for oil, and drilling for natural gas. That doesn’t mean we should keep doing it.

Judging an article — any article — on its headline and thinking you’ve got enough information to make these sorts of suppositions makes you nothing short of an asshole.

The fact that this anecdote ended with “he was out of gas and couldn’t see the highway” rather than “careened into a bus full of disabled orphans and exploded in a hellish conflagration” I think is what surprised me most.