2008 Subaru’s only had a one-touch down function because anything else would cause the head gasket to fail. 

I am a massive Honda Fit proponent for a city car, so bear with my biased opinion.

Actually yes. I travel a lot, and I love going through timeline to see the places I’ve been. I use this feature a lot.

I have used it several times to go back and find a the name of a bar/restaurant/museum/attraction/etc that I went to while in a particular city. I just did this about a week ago for a coworker that will be traveling to Japan; I was able to pull up some places that I really enjoyed but didnt remember the name of (ex:…

surely you don’t following last decade of JDM hype, this is mild case if you compare it to most south east asian countries. I’ve seen similar price in used car market for older year of Civic hot hatch and even higher for Civic coupe 5th gen (for comparison, pic above is either 6th or 7th gen civic)

I am absolutely baffled as to how a person can spend a lot of money on a vehicle and then at some point simply park it and ignore it completely for countless years while it slowly decays.

I may be in the minority but I actually liked it there. If it’s your own car you know where it is, fewer buttons on the doors, and it’s accessible to both the driver and passenger right in your line of sight.

You should be using it every time you park it, flatlander. Reaching down and pulling the parking brake when you park ought to be second nature, something you do on sheer muscle memory alone. It is how I was taught. It don’t seize up if you are constantly using it. Hell, I use mine even at stop lights or waiting on…

Plus, the loading port for the Mr. Fusion was in about the worst possible spot to reach.

If the top is down, couldn’t a person also just open the door the usual way, or if needed, reach to the center panel as well?

A soccer mom Honda minivan does 0-60 in 6.7 seconds??

Isn’t this really just measuring how shockingly effective launch control is? 

This is silly. 5mph is too slow to measure ‘responsiveness’, I can guarantee they launch at a substantially higher rpm than what the engine is doing at that speed.

It would have been really helpful if the original article would have actually put up a table with the data on all the cars they tested instead of ‘here are the ones that did particularly good/bad according to this metric.’, and end up essentially with a list of really slow cars that make 0 effort to do good 0-60 times…

The effects of turbo lag make the engine less responsive to user inputs. What they measured was essentially the time from pressing the accelerator to the engine actually providing power as you mentioned. I would call that ‘responsiveness’, it’s how quickly the car responds to you demanding acceleration.

What they…

More like, the Mirage is so fucking slow that the 5 mph head start of the 5-60 time over the 0-60 provides tangible reduction in time it takes to accelerate.

Cars don’t attract tickets, behavior attracts tickets.

And yet what are the main cars you see at slide shows? a C10, a Mustang, charger, and occasional corvette. =)

Plastic bags in the middle of the road.  I know that it won’t happen, but I have a fear that one of those little pieces of trash will get caught up under my car, attach itself to the hot exhaust and ignite and cause my car to burn to the ground.  I know that if it does get caught that all would happen would be that…

My AZ-1 can do it, but only just barely. Near me is the only 85mph section of road in Texas. I’ve gotten it up to that but it’s turning nearly 7000rpm to hold it. Redline is 9500rpm so I’m not too worried doing it but it does sound like hell with the engine 18 inches behind your head.