Safety in flying small piston airplanes is largely one thing, do you have power? Oil/fuel leaks are also surprisingly common. If you ask GA pilots their main concern isn’t likely to be LION flaring up in a crash, as that’s exactly what happens when they crash their 100LL powered planes.

Jesus christ! No gloves??? Always glove up people. Wrenching is fun, cancer is not.

probably like the 1st gen transit connect from Turkey. Shipped over with carpet and seats. Then stripped out stateside and shipped back to the factory to repeat the process again and again.

THIS. exactly this.

Hey, get your insults right. Headgaskets are not an issue now. BUT Early FB-type engines burn oil!

There is also this weird cultural part too. You’ll see wealthy WA/OR natives with Subarus at the trailhead/ski-resort/ocean, but not the CA transplants. The transplants just buy the Audis. So all the sudden having a Subaru becoming some sign of having “made it”. It has become a way to fit in around here. Sit in the…

So 2series active touring with more ride height? feels like they are all slightly different shade of the same nonsense.

I believe the usual answer is: “historical neutrality” and “politics”

There is just TOO MUCH style going on here. maybe chevy’s designers need to take a trip to MOMA. Less is more. This already looks old.

embarrassed to say, city-safety/autobrake totally saved my ass from bending up the parents’ car a year ago. couldn’t imagine buying a new car without it.

On my “if I was Elon Musk” shopping list... So cool.

Community College flush-bros are now rushing to their local service departments for this spoiler... ugh.

This is inevitable, Subaru AND Mazda will need plug-in tech to meet future emissions and customer goals. Neither company has shown a wiliness to pure money into the tech so getting some of Toyota’s is a good call for now. Down the road not having a native knowledge will mean a merger, plain and simple.

the joke is it’s wealthy suburban Phoenix, usually that means conservatives.

Underpowered? More ‘adequate’. We towed 2000lbs with the EJ25 + 4-speed auto for a few year just fine. Crossing the Cascades was best done slow on HWY-410, not 70mph I-90. Around the region with two people + full fuel, it was plenty fast enough to keep up with traffic. Honestly having 300hp in our XC70 or 170hp in our…

This is with the new engine(FB25), just to clarify. The 4th gens(EJ25) don’t munch oil, usually, we just pop headgaskets, but then you slap a WRX one on there and it should be fixed for life...

“you’re blocking the graffiti vision! move it import weirdo!”

guys, gals! Look at that accord coupe.

Everyone with a Ford-era Volvo has stories. Hell, I have stories, thankfully we also have warranties and by the end of those most things have been worked out. Beyond the warranty/shake out period they seem to be on par with Ze Germans in reliability, not stellar but not horrific.

They hired the former Bentley interior guy. And as others have noted, China. Volvo needs them dollars (yuan in this case) and they need to get the prestige back, the image. Thus this car.