That’s not what I said at all. My point was that part of the problem is lack of driver attentiveness, and that a low-profile tire isn’t as much of an insta-disaster as some folks make it out to be.

Not sure how you arrived at, “It can never happen,” from what I wrote...

Onew of the absolute WORST bits of road is US-52 JUUUSSTTT south of I-80 in Joliet. It has been horrible for years, and they refuse to fix it. Worse still, that's the main way of getting to Route 66, which is where we host our autocross events. A few weeks ago, and I'm not exaggerating, at least FOUR people suffered…

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.

I just ran this for all my orders going back to 2006, and it’s $18,146.94, so ... I WIN!!! Wait...

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.

Fellow Chicagoan here. Currently renting a townhouse, and tired of our grass looking like a jungle within 12 minutes of the lawn people coming through. If I owned this place and had my own mower, I’d be mowing like every 3 days at this rate, lol.