I did that before buying a BRZ. I was already pretty certain I wanted it, but I was coming from an Outback, and wasn’t 100% certain if I’d be happy with the much lower ride height, and overall ride. I guess I got lucky, but the dealership was more than happy to let me take the car out for an hour or two on my own. I…

Dafuq.

People will throw hundreds of millions of dollars at the stupidest fucking Kickstarter campaigns every day. It honestly never even crossed my mind that these guys wouldn’t get the comparatively small $33 million they needed to keep going. How disappointing. C’mon, rich people. Get your shit together!

Haha. I’ve driven a Flexible, and a Fishbowl as well! I used to drive for the Commonwealth Coach and Trolley Museum, so I would occasionally sign up to drive an old bus for a wedding or something on a weekend. The day I drove the Fishbowl, I had to make a u-turn on a two-lane back country road by reversing it into…

If you use your turn signal the way you are supposed to, the seat shouldn’t vibrate when you change lanes. Lane departure warning systems expect a lane change when you use your turn signal.

I have no problem with the little indicator on the mirror that lets you know a vehicle has moved into your blind spot. They aren’t…

This is a feature that always looked okay when designed properly, but which can really look fucking awesome with modern lighting tech. LEDs, and materials that properly, and evenly, distribute the light make a world of a difference. I like this new trend. I think they look cool (most of the time.)

Most vehicles allow you to disable them if you insist on tailgating.

No. That’s not what I’m saying. Where did I say that?

No. My position is that pedestrian safety shouldn’t rate so highly that a vehicle with otherwise good crash test results in a myriad of other categories ends up with a one star rating overall.

I just got back from Europe two weeks ago. Honestly, I completely forgot we were talking about EURO crash ratings. I’ll admit pedestrian safety is a bit more important over then than it is over here.

That’s a fair point.

The problem is that the vast majority of collisions do not involve pedestrians. So to give a vehicle a very low crash rating for the least common of scenarios, when it might actually be excellent at protecting occupants the rest of the time, is a bit misleading.

How would you like it if I told people that you were an…

I disagree with you a bit here. I think many of these autonomous safety systems can improve the safety of vehicles.

Where I take issue is with pedestrian safety weighing so heavily. I think it should matter, but it shouldn’t drag a vehicle’s safety rating down so much. If anything, it should be more like a bonus…

What about if I’m right? Then can I be a dick?

I’ve been engine braking for years. Am I perfect? No. Am I good enough that my clutch hasn’t suffered any adverse effects? Yes. Every time you start from a stop, you put a shit-ton more wear on the clutch than when you don’t quite perfectly match your downshift.

What are you blabbering about? Engine braking doesn’t wear the clutch. Downshifting WITHOUT REV-MATCHING does, but the assumption would be that you’re driving properly, not wrongly. If you know how to properly operate your motor vehicle, engine braking doesn’t wear your clutch.

The only reason you’d be wearing the clutch would be if you weren’t rev-matching, which means you’re driving incorrectly.

I would buy this over the regular one JUST to avoid having that massive, gaping, stupid, ugly, played-out, monstrous front grille.

JESUS FUCK STOP WITH THE GIANT GRILLES ALREADY!!!

I'm gonna be "that guy" and say that he should have thanked the engineers that designed the safety components of his car too, since they're the ones that ACTUALLY saved him from injury.