And only 27 deaths were attributed to the Ford Pinto’s shitty fuel tank design over 5 years.

You know, at this point most organizations that fucked up would be issuing an, “oh my god we are so sorry, we are going to open a commission into why this community wasn’t listened to, gonna try harder next time, seriously, our bad on this, etc.” statement.

Something from VW is more complicated than it needs to be? Color me shocked.

If you are, like me, a mountain biker of a certain age with an only semi-outdoorsy girlfriend, this is kind of ideal. And you can tell by the giant swing away rack that this is the kind of person who owned it before.

Figure this is a far better choice than a wee little RHD import Japanese campervan and the style…

Assuming you mean eastern new york, As Western new york is only about 90 miles top to bottom... But even eastern new york is only 300 miles long, so if you go from NYC to Burlington VT, you’ve still got Albany to fill up in and a town like Burlington is gonna have fast chargers.

OK, calling bullshit on this as someone who regularly (like 4-6 times a month) drives 450 miles in a day.

450 miles is a 7 hour drive with no stops. And while I can drive 450 miles without refueling in my current car, That drive still usually takes me 8+ hours.
Because I still have to stop for food, stop to pee, stop…

The fourth Gen Subaru Outback. Mainly because it followed the best looking of the bunch, the beautiful 3rd gen outback.

gen 1, 2 and 3 were all definitely wagons. Gen 4?

Sure, the 4th gen was bigger and more in line with what consumers actually wanted, and sure, sales basically doubled when they went for the new bigger…

OK, hear me out- you want a 2 door money pit? check.
Comfortable all day at 85? check.
A stupid amount of cylinders? Check, available with a v-12 that only increases its money-pit-itude.
A dedicated and eccentric community? Oh, checkity check check on that one.

Plus, you can probably get one for anywhere between 12 and…

Someone without a babysitter. Someone without day care. Someone who just got out of the hospital days ago and needed to go grocery shopping.

The fact that your kid has never been inside a store is great and I am happy that you’ve been in a position where that’s possible. You have to understand that unfortunately, most…

My current car, because if I wasn’t really interested in impressing these people when I went to school, why would I care now? I don’t need to put on a show, I’m proud of who I am and where I am in life even if that means I’m driving a boring Outback instead of something less practical and more showy.

Or, it’s just that the effort to reward calculation doesn’t work. Like, do I really want to travel several states to see people I don’t remember because we haven’t talked since I went to college?

I wouldn’t be surprised if Tesla gets out of the car business altogether and switches to making batteries and charging systems for other companies. Might explain why they’ve been so lax in updating their current cars.

I will always love the bug-eye lights on the 2003 Subaru Impreza/WRX. So much going on under that smooth housing. Also, if you held the switch for the brights just so, you could get brights and fogs on at the same time, which was awesome on back roads.

Much like gas stations... which is mainly a problem of quantity. And since charging stations don’t need to be manned, it’s a lot easier to build more of them. Totally get what you are saying though- we are transitioning and it’s gonna take a while for everything to just work like it did. I’m just impressed at the…

Just watched Mr Regular’s review of the Hyundai Ioniq5 and I gotta say, I think EVs as just normal cars has arrived. 20 minutes to charge? for long-ass drives that’s 100% fine by me. Just make sure that charger is near an good place for lunch. My girlfriend started looking at them and started doing the math and…

Finding a place to put a 4 bike hitch rack sucks. Installing and uninstalling it sucks even worse :)

Ditto, Outback with a hitch mounted single... But honestly, I kinda get why the big hitch racks stay on- moving a 70 pound rack suuuuuuucks.

The hierarchy is
One-Up (The king of fancy racks. plus, they’re local)
Kuat
Saris (also local, also makes the best inexpensive 4 bike rack)
Yakima/Thule- usually on expensive cars,…

No real car Culture in my town per say, but there is a predilection for Subaru Crosstreks and Outbacks like there is in any liberal city where snow and ice is a given.

Every t-bucket I’ve ever seen was an attempt to build a drag racer for the street- the giant cartoonish back tires, the tiny little front tires, the shitty brakes, the big engine... It’s a vehicle that has no business at all on the street. But since they’re mainly driven by old white boomers trying to relive “American…

Yup. 100%