It was a Subaru BRZ tS in Crystal black silica. I did have a loan pre-approved, so that did make things faster.

I’ve walked in to a dealership, said “I have a dinner reservation for my anniversary across town in an hour. I need to get out of here in 20 minutes.”

I cross-shopped my BRZ with the Porsche Cayman. If you can afford both, it’s nice to see if the higher priced model is worth the additional purchase price. In the Cayman’s case, the BRZ provided 90% of the fun, and way more features for half the price, in the Q5's case, the additional fit, finish, power, interior…

It drives fantastic. My only gripe is the factory GT-wing grabs way too much of the wrong type of attention, at least in southern California.

My wife passed up a Crosstrek because of it’s lack of power and bought a Q5.

My wife had an extremely well-equipped 1-series that she loved, up until the moment her co-workers started making fun of it because it was the “entry-level” “cheap” BMW. She bought it because she wanted a fun to drive small coupe with a naturally-aspirated inline six. But all the heckling from the people at her…

If you could have Jalopnik headquarters located in any city in the world besides New York, where would be the best fit?

My 280Z lived it’s whole life in SoCal, and still needed a bunch of sheet metal replaced due to rust.

It wouldn’t be the first time hollywood was out of touch with what’s cool and what’s not.

I concur. The loss of the ability to drive the canyons here has eliminated the final thing I liked about living in LA. 

Can we just get this instead? Please?

There are places to escape the traffic in LA. I’m certain plenty of new 3-series will get their work outs in on ACH and other canyon roads.

Los Angeles Metro doesn’t allow it either. Yes, we have one, and it’s fantastic, as long as you only need to travel between Chinatown and Koreatown.

That’s better than the BMW 633CSi I had. I owned it for two years, and it ran for 2 weeks out of that entire time.

If I didn’t already have 5 cars and only two parking spots, I’d be picking one up myself.

I’ve been noticing these pop up on LA craigslist for that budget, usually well-maintained examples too. AWD German superwagen? Perfect. It’ll also be fun to see if your hand can heal before anything on the S4 Avant breaks.

I’m very familiar with the Macan, we cross-shopped it with the Q5.

That’s a shame too, as something that would combine the utility of my wife’s Q5 with the handling of my BRZ would be amazing.