How is Miata with snow tires not the answer? This place is slipping...and not in the fun Miata on snow kinda way.

I like it. The extra width kind of lets it grow into the rest of it's proportions so it doesn't look as ungainly as a stock one. I love the style, I love the mods, I love the diesel. Put a manual in it and I might even consider owning one some day.

I kind of like it as it sits but by the time they go on sale it will have lost the bumpers, lights, wheels, stance, fender flares and basically everything else that makes it appeal to me. By the time it goes on sale it will be just another boring lump of Toyota in a hatchback form. I wanted to like the Matrix too, I…

At any rate, I want to beat this 400 horsepower hatchback within an inch of its life until they haul me off to the insane asylum. We can share a cell, this Golf and I.

Ha!!! The town I grew up in had a dealership called Jim Smith Chevrolet.

I don't know. Have you seen one in real life yet? They are gargantuan compared to the old ones and other "mid-size" trucks like the Taco and Fronty. I couldn't believe how tall the one at the local dealer was first time I saw it.

I don't understand it either. I just remember reading that the 2WD drive ones had it and that the wiring mod allowed it to work in 2WD on the 4WD models.

Yeah, it's not that it's a PITA or didn't work, I just never found myself in a situation where the computer would allow it to work. There was a mod that involved rewiring some stuff so it would work whenever you wanted but it obviously would have voided the warranty on the diff. I never really understood the need to…

I always use snow tires but last Jan. I bought a new base model, 6 speed manual Subaru Forester with the underpowered 2.5L non-turbo engine. It was downright scary on the stock noseason tires. This year on Blizzaks it is downright boring. Makes me want a RWD beater to have some fun with when the kid isn't in the…

Too bad there are no tauntauns roaming the NYS Thruway to cut open for warmth.

Wow, that actually looks pretty damn nice. Chrysler is on a bit of a design hot streak lately.

I absolutely loved my 2008 Frontier Nismo 4x4 V6 manual. Paid $7,000 less than the comparable TRD Tacoma. Shame the kiddo's carrier wouldn't fit in the rear jump seat safely. It was a low miles peach when I traded it in.

"The only things worth getting the Pro4x for is the locking rear diff (not mentioned in the article) and the backup camera."

Yes, I owned a 2002 540i Touring with the M Sport package for 6 months. It had just over 100k miles on it and I paid 5 grand. They only came with a ZF automatic transmission which needed replacing at a cost of over 4 grand. They also only came with a self leveling air suspension in the rear that never worked right.…

I live just over an hour south of Buffalo, juuuuust outside of the lake effect zone. It snowed pretty constant for 4 days straight here and we've got about an inch on the grass. Nothing really stuck to the roads or sidewalks. Little bit of ice on the car and in the driveway. That's it.

Dammit, now I want a rear-wheel drive diesel lifted hatchback too.

Are those...SIDE PIPES???

Wow. That was harsh. I don't understand how somebody who loves MR2s so much could hate the S2000 so much unless it's just a brand loyalty issue because his Echo served him so well for so long and his Fit has been a pain in the ass. This is the first I've ever heard of an S2000 owner stereotype. My 60 something…

Exactly. Was hoping Newman would manage to win the championship without winning a race to prove once and for all to NASCAR that the Chase is bogus and needs to go.