Easy answer on this one. Go watch any video comparing the CX5/CX7 to the Forester. It doesn’t compare.

Honestly, I expected to see anime art and animation quality continue degrading, due to the crap working conditions, etc - but the whole fight scene in Black Clover after Asta first changed... Wow! Still minimalist, but the way they drew it out gave you an absolute sense of the speed and scale of what was going on. One…

From a former owner of one of each generation of MazdaSpeed3... I could not possibly agree more with your sentiments about the Focus ST... especially once I threw a tune on the damn GenPu. I’ve never wanted to un-modify a car so fast in my life.

Badda BIG boom

Exactly this. Also, a ~280hp GTI vs a ~325hp R will still make a great case for getting the R. The fact that the power is usable in the rain (which we have had an absolutely enormous amount of here in NC this year) makes it the better car for a lot of people.

Preview of Jalop in a few weeks: “Here’s What Happens When You Bolt 12 (Twelve!) Engines Together to Create an Enormous Inline-48 (Fourty-Eight!) Cylinder”

Gah! I had an ‘86 Isuzu Impulse Turbo, ages ago. LOVED that car. The seats, the way there were no stalks on the steering column (it was all switches to the sides of the gauge cluster), the turbo, the RWD-ness, etc. It was so slow, but had great torque, which you felt, because the turbo spooled fairly late, and fairly…

They have more interior options elsewhere on the X3 M40i - like an awesome black and red individual interior, which is what my wife really wanted. It looks like they ended up saving this interior for the X4 M40i in the US, which is BS.

That’s literally THE reason my wife didn’t get the M40i - they have the best seats (and steering wheel) available in the EU, but not here... where the thing is made.

Which is perfectly acceptable on a 3-hour flight. Not so much on an 8-hour flight.

As much as most of those things make me cringe, you’re absolutely right.

Second paragraph. “This is a special edition Toyota 86 that, despite missing power upgrades, still manages to grab you for a second look.”

And also not-sparkly white. You forgot that one.

I’ve seen tons of these going for upwards of $20k off MSRP. I’ve been SO damn tempted, more than once. If they were just a smidge more practical - and by that, I mean not having to make multiple trips to bring all of my groceries home - I’m pretty damn sure I would have bought one by now.

This article is great - but I think the most amazing thing I’ve learned is that Cap’n Crunch has a name. And of all things, it’s Horatio. That’s awesome.

Interestingly, the manual for most of the new cars I’ve purchased in the past few years explicitly tell you not to warm the car up, and to start it and drive off immediately.

I mean, TECHNICALLY he isn’t wrong. It does convert heat to voltage, which is how the gauges read.... it just isn’t enough voltage to matter. :)

Obviously it’s a hybrid. They use the fourth axle to power what is essentially a range extender.

I can’t help but look at these images of the 7-series LCI, and think that someone enlarged the grilles with photoshop, to point out how ridiculous BMW is getting with this shit.

I had a coilpack that kept eating spark plugs on my 2002 IS300. It sounded mean as hell when that cylinder wasn’t firing. Unintentional 5 cylinders are the best 5 cylinders. (and 7 cylinders, of course.)