The new game car enthusiasts play is to compliment every other type of transmission in order to boost their credibility when they trash CVTs. It just doesn’t hold up. The best CVTs in normal-person cars are not significantly worse (and are often reported to be virtually indistinguishable from or better than)…

You’d be happy with that payment, I bet, if you ever fell on hard times, say by losing your job.

The reality is that you, as a recipient of UBI, will also certainly be contributing less than you get back. In other words, you won’t be untainted by “freeloader” status, either, as a net “taker.” Are you going to sit there and tell me that working literally any job (like, say, part time bagger at a grocery store)…

But the idea of paying for the maintenance of some goofball who just doesn’t wantto work rubs me the wrong way. If I had my ‘druthers, I’d sit at home working on my shitty novel, playing video games, and dropping my brilliance into the comments here in the GMG-verse, rather than actually working—but that’s not how…

Okay.

Methinks the problem is largely due to a fulfilling prophecy.

Yeah, this is pretty much it. They have the ground clearance and AWD to deal with low-speed driving in suboptimal post-snowfall conditions. I’m thinking specifically of how the plows will often create inconvenient snowbanks on street corners in town. If you’re forced to come to a complete stop before turning because…

I put my money where my mouth is ...

The transmission is actually pretty good.

Agreed. I think it only catches shit because enthusiasts can’t understand the presence of a “manual” mode that you aren’t meant/expected to use full time. It’s for downhill engine braking and perhaps downshifting to pass someone on the highway. Otherwise, keep it in drive and save fuel.

Agreed. Subarus were never cool. Enthusiasts just started digging wagon-like vehicles right as they were dying out, and thus possess false memories of what the Subaru brand was back in the ‘90s. Where I lived, the Outback was just an alternative to the Volvo 240DL. It was a parent-mobile that eventually got handed…

Then just create an abbreviated “Enthusiast Lineup” for the rest of us. Which doesn’t include that infernal CVT.

The reason why he will keep working is because only a small pocket of Twitter users cares. This is a non-issue.

The fact that you think the problem is any individual item of food (a hamburger bun) reveals that you don’t have the slightest clue what you’re talking about. Maybe try shutting the fuck up for once in your life?

Car companies have nothing to gain from enthusiasts thinking manual versions are cool if said enthusiasts will never buy them anyway.

You know the difference between the quality of a person’s acting, and the fictional quality of their character’s personality/behavior, right? Jesus Christ, people are morons these days.

So how do people square that?

Literally nobody cares. The entire reason why there will be no Outback Sport is because enthusiasts are more into enumerating the shit they think they want than actually buying it. I’m happy that, for once, car makers seem to fully understand this dynamic, and have begun to ignore enthusiasts.

Remember when Iwata didn’t take a cut to his stock compensations which eclipsed his base salary...

He’s not resigning. Get over it. If you want to impeach him for something, go ahead. This outrage-bait bullshit is ultimately just self-destructive.