Good points! And yeah my winter setup is also smaller wheels with fatter tires for the same reason :)

That’s a good point. I can see the average population just slamming on the brakes and nose-diving into a pothole with tons of force. I let off more to save the suspension than the wheels/tires since my car is also lowered slightly, but it definitely helps everything better cope with the impact.

Lol, they’re the FF15s, which are pretty cheap as far as HREs go. All four of these cost like half of what a single one of those high-end, three-piece HREs goes for.

Those things are sketchy AF! My BRZ is also lowered slightly, and has the stock front lip since it’s a Series.Blue, so those situations are butt-clenching for sure. The car is high enough that it USUALLY isn’t a problem, but there are some that stick up so much that it makes me legitimately wonder whether or not they…

“I’m staying on the road, and I’m staying in my lane! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!?!” -Most Motorists

Fuck, you’re right. I mean to say fatter TIRES (i.e. taller sidewalls.) Oh well!

I’m half-expecting to walk out to my car after work today and find a flat tire now that I’ve made this post, lol.

I have smaller wheels specifically for autocross, but I LOVED how these 18s looked, and couldn’t say no to them as the summer setup :P

Huh. That’s like the complete opposite of my experience. Maybe I’ve just been crazy lucky over the past few years.

#MidwestLife :(

I know that you can’t always see every pothole, or avoid every pothole in every situation. Let me state that up front. I live in Chicago. Potholes are a way of life. I’ve driven my lowered BRZ into some invisible potholes at night that had the car basically fall onto its front bumper. I’ve also hit potholes violently…

Yeah, the first time I saw the curb weight for this thing in another article, I honestly thought it was a typo, given how heavy most vehicles are these days...

Subaru always made it look good.

There is a reason the original Subaru Outback was such a bit hit. It was the perfect “do everything” car. Unfortunately, the newest ones have grown too large, and are no longer proper “lifted wagons” IMHO.

This is the most annoying kind of take...

I change my HVAC controls so infrequently that I can’t reasonably consider this as a con. Modern HVAC systems are set-it-and-leave-it, more or less.

It's called "a dashcam that isn't a piece of shit Walmart special." ;)

The only thing more infuriating than a left lane hog... is a left lane hog that brake checks you, or slows way down, after you have sat behind them for a full minute at a courteous distance, and finally gave them a brief flash of the headlights to notify them that you’d like to pass. Those people deserve to die slow,…

My dashcam has a front and rear camera.

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