They shut down both the cog and the road in the winter. Only way up in the winter is a SnoCat

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Rally cars are NOT softly sprung (not in the conventional, comfort sense anyway). The suspension is actually very stiff, and they are a rough ride over slow bumps.

Debating between leasing new or straight up buying a 14-15, but I’m planning on getting a BRZ in the second half of next year. The funny thing is this will be my “slower, sensible economy car.” I love my Outback XT, but that turbo engine is thirsty and she’s way more car than I need 80% of the time (also shes about to…

Counterpoint: FWD is regularly faster than RWD in stage rally

If by “specially prepped” you mean snow tires, pulling the ABS fuse, and vinyl graphs, then yes the Fiesta was specially prepped. That’s all they change on those cars.

That’s my biggest concern, and why I haven’t painted mine

No plate on the Jeep, which means possibly no license, no registration, and/or it could be stolen. No wonder the driver was so eager to get out of there

A few years back we had a bad landing off a big jump, which crushed the oil filter, relieving the engine of all its oil. We made about ten miles before it completely seized up. Found a junked Forester with a quarter million mile engine and the crew spent the entire night rebuilding it so we could race the next day. We…

My Outback has an original interval of 7k miles, but the interval was officially reduced to 3k miles after owners started having problems with turbo oil starvation (in part due to people not checking the level and topping it off between changes) and the filters on the turbo oil line getting clogged without more…

The driver of that Corolla let us all down. I’ve heard one of those launch hard with full launch control and it’s bonkers

That 240RS is still running and was actually at Mt Washington as well

I’ve co-driven the Mt Washington Hill Climb before. The cars are very safe, but there are definitely places where going off is certain, inescapable death. As for what the organization does to prevent people from going off cliffs, well the answer there is basically nothing aside from telling us “whatever you do don’t…

To be fair, some of the issues I’ve had are because it’s a high mileage car (195k) and some are the results of hard usage (it regularly plays the role of recce car at stage rallies). But yeah, people’s acceptance of issues definitely varies greatly brand to brand

Yeah, Subaru’s selling strong and their year-over-year growth is insane. ‘16 was the first year since 2011 that their sales growth over the previous year was less than 10% (it was “only” 6%).