Leave the front hvac on recirculate if you want to pass anyone (I think, it’s been a while). Also, shutting the rear hvac off during a passing maneuver will help alleviate the problem. I think the rear hvac air intakes are located too close to the interior air extraction flaps...and when you pass with front hvac fresh…

Very much so. The Explorer has been replaced by a C-Max, the two Espadas are gone, and an ‘02ish Jeep Grand Cherokee has added itself to the driveway because someone installed replacement tie rods incorrectly. The ML320 and GTI were never permanent members of the driveway.

It means make sure that you have a spare Espada, two spare tow cars, and two spare cars for those two spares...

Also the Nissan Cube. I know two people who would have bought a Cube if it wasn’t so freaking slow. Why didn’t they make any with the Juke’s powertrain?

I just use SwiftKey.

It’s more that the Fahrenheit temperature scale relates better to humans, as in it’s survivable, on its scale of 1-100° than does Centigrade on its scale of 1-100°. That’s all, just my opinion. I’d prefer to cook in metric, just not receive the weather in metric, or set the temperature in my car in metric.

You forgot its folded straw cap.

In my opinion, the only place the metric system is less appropriate is for measuring temperature as it relates to humans. 72° [F] has a better ring to it than 22.222° [C], and 100° F means that it’s freaking hotter than balls, not that you’re literally boiling...and 0° F means that you’ll probably die without a…

You’re entitled to believe whatever you want, but I just don’t fit comfortably in any seat with a fixed headrest. I wear 34 inseam pants (I’m fairly even between torso and legs), and I sit bolt upright most of the time, and the bottom of the headrest digs into my shoulders in the 1995 850, 1996 & 2012 C70, and 2001…

I’m 6'5" and therefore incompatible with Volvo seats because you can’t raise the headrests.

What temperature did you have it set to? 74° F seems to be Subaru’s magic number.

Nah, there’s a bit of a design and/or proximity flaw in the interior air extraction vents or/and the air intake vents for the rear climate control system.

Check the oil every 500 miles til you get a handle on the consumption, add the oil before it’s half a quart low. Walmart sells 5 quart jugs of LL-01 approved Castrol 0w40 for $23. Great little car! Just keep the oil full!

I’ve averaged 26.8 mpg over 102k fuelly tracked miles on my 2007 GTI. I drive briskly when I feel like it, which is half of the time...is yours a stick or DSG? My trip computer usually reads low.

“Condition hopeless, entire vehicle relies on leftover engine technology.”

You never drove a first gen MPV with rwd and the tow package. It handled pretty great!

I’ve only been in two Ford DSG cars but they were much smoother than the one in my GTI. Definitely less shift logic in the Fords, but tolerable.

I like my Nitto Motivos on my 2007 GTI. I’m on my second set. Nice stiff sidewall, good turn-in, good grip (not summer tires good though, they’re not Michelins), quiet, nice straight tracking on the highway, don’t hydroplane easily, decent in snow, and long lasting.

Yeah, that’d be nice but I can’t imagine adding the whine of a supercharger to the “softball in a garbage disposal” sound of Nissan’s larger VQ V6s. Maybe it’d cancel the sound out?

My favorite too, so clean looking and mostly pre cost reduction...and double wishbone suspension! Even though my J-vin, 97 Civic EX 5-speed sedan that I got new was not reliable at all and had crappy a/c.