I dunno. I’ve driven a Forester, and I didn’t have any complaints. In fact I remember being impressed that it actually cornered rather well. It was an XT, though. My friend also likes the Forester XT his parents have.

And both of us drive BRZs, so it’s not like we don’t know what good handling is, lol.

When did you drive it, and what model/year was it?

Thats almost as bad as the spider. Almost.

I wouldn’t really recommend it for several reasons:

1. Small is good in terms of number of passengers, sure, but it’s also much less useful for things like moving to college, buying new things at college, moving out of the dorm and into an apartment in college, etc... Don’t get me wrong, the BRZ has a surprising amount…

I hope you wake up tomorrow and your underwear looks like that.

You need help.

I had a similar experience to that too. Cruising down the highway, and a wasp got partially sucked into the window, hit the b-pillar head-on, and bounced into my lap. Freaked me out for a moment until I realized it had died from the impact. Or so I thought... until about 15 seconds later it started moving around. *cue…

Fuck. You.

I really hate spiders.

But you tell me if that’s not the worst possible driving scenario you can imagine in your head.

I drove a hand-me-down 1998 Subaru Outback for the first 8 years of my driving life. A car with 280,000 miles. That poor thing did everything I asked of it - even autocross. When I turned 24, I finally got myself a brand new BRZ. You’d think, as a car nut, that I would say, “Boy! I wish I could have had the BRZ from…

I’m from NJ... but nope. Illinois.

I was 24 when I was shopping for a new BRZ. The first dealership I went to was so frustratingly uninterested in selling me one, it was almost comical. The salesman (some 60-year-old guy) had the worst attitude. The “test drive” consisted of a loop around the square block where I never exceeded 25 MPH, and which only…

So much this. I could barely hear my own horn when I honked it on the highway, lol... and my BRZ has, like, no sound deadening.

Most “dad stories” sound like things that would get you arrested today... because they would. But I’ve learned to accept that back in the day, people weren’t so uptight, and you could get away with a LOT more shenanigans without winding up plastered and defamed all over social media. Some of my dad’s stories are…

That’s how my setup is. Sometimes you need a friendly honk, or sometimes your car has to go for an alignment or something, and you don’t want them to blow the train horns as they’re pulling into the shop, lol.

Lol. Soooo... funny you should mention that. I may have installed four PA speakers under the hood of my old Outback, after I got them from a yard sale... and I may have hooked them up to an amplifier, which was then hooked into a hand-held microphone, and a PDA with all sorts of sound effects pre-loaded.

Talking at…

Overhead gear selector buttons? Sold.

I guess I'm in the minority, then!

I mean... what about all of us buying new cars for the long haul? It's not like that demographic doesn't exist!