Damn, I read that as he wrote one you wanted him to write another. I was hoping I had missed something. So yes another Power Wheels review from Jason would be awesome.

The one this year was Andrew. Did Torch ever do one? I know he did the whole Will it Baby thing a few years ago, but I don’t remember ever seeing a Power Wheels review from him. I wish he would do one, it would be pretty awesome.

Antagonizer beat me to it, but is purely about dealer franchise agreements. It goes back to when Pontiac and Oldsmobile were still around. Those dealers wanted to sell trucks and the clientele were pretty similar to Chevy’s. If the dealer didn’t own a Chevy franchise, and someone else across town did, he wouldn’t be…

Yeah I agree. I couldn’t care less about Dodges personally, but I always notice those Durango tail lamps on the road at night. They have a great presence that not many other SUV’s can pull off. When I first saw pictures of it, I shrugged it off as just copying the Charger lamps over, but in person it works really well.

Like Donkey said, it is done for the tail lights. I agree that the panel gap is awful, but I think it looks better than the Navigator and MKX that have a similarly shaped LED strip that is supposed to flow across the trunk gap. But those gaps are also too big and and fail miserably.

I guess this isn’t really a swap, because the front motor also still works and drives the car, but this is one of my all time favorites. Just drop it into neutral to use the jet.

BRZ’s/FR-S’s are pretty popular down here in San Antonio too.

Yeah absolutely no surprise there. I know the area well. I live off of Bandera outside of 1604 just past Scenic Loop and commute through there every morning. My boss got T-boned on his way to work a few months ago at Braun and Bandera by a lady on the phone who pulled out of that Shell station without looking. Just…

Sounds like somewhere on the Northwest Side...

Impatient people are the worst. The other day I was the first car at a red light across from a fire station. Light turned green as a ladder truck was pulling out with its lights on. As I waited for it, the guy inched up to my bumper and started blaring his horn. I wished I had a hitch like that on my car then.

I actually think Subaru did a decent job not making the factory steelies tolerable on my car. I’m actually thinking of just painting them gold or black and keeping them on there.

Here’s a good one - a Fisker Karma with 90 miles on it: http://www.frankkentcadillac.com/VehicleDetails…

Who are all these under 35’s that can afford a new compact SUV?! I’m 31 and make $90k. That’s more than the vast majority of people under 35 and a $24k+ RAV4 is at the upper end of what I can afford. How do they expect the average under 35 person making $40k to afford one of these? Leases? 72-month loans? Got lucky…

The 1.8T in the Golf Sport Wagen is actually so good that I really don’t think it needs the 2.0T. I test drove one recently, and it felt stronger than the previous gen 2.0T in the Mk6 Wagen. What is needs more than another 200cc is a 6-speed instead of the current 5-speed. The clutch and shifter work well enough but I…

The drivers are yellow because they are made of Kevlar. It has been a Bowers and Wilkins signature look since the 1970’s. I agree that it doesn’t look great, but people who shell out the extra for a B&W sound system expect probably expect to see yellow drivers somewhere.

Sounds about right. The CVT should be good for about 1-2 mpg over the manual. My wife's Outback has the 2.5 CVT combo and gets about the same mileage as my Forester despite weighing another 300 pounds or so. Getting going usually means around 4,000 rpm.

CVT or manual? I’ve been getting 27 in my Forester manual.

I think Subaru just considers the higher trim of the Crosstrek to be the Forester. Both are based on the same platform, but only the Forester gets the higher powered motors. For around $1000 more you get the 2.5L with increases of 22 hp and 29 lb-ft at just a 200 lb. weight increase. I looked at both and bought a…

I think it has something to do with dealer networks. Buick and GMC are sold together and though the prices start higher than Chevy there is a lot of overlap. It lets GM have more full-line stores in an area without having too many Chevy stores.

While I don’t doubt you, I’ve actually seen more SS’s than Caprice PPV’s out there. Here in Texas police cars all seem to be Chargers, Explorers, and Tahoes in addition to the Crown Vic’s still running around. I think I’ve seen maybe two PPV’s.