I'll see your Nemo Mobile, and raise you a Hydra Schmidt Coupe Grau:

Your anecdotal evidence proves nothing except that your confirmation bias clouds your perception. Ignoring your dubious reliability claims.....considering Subaru only accounts for ~3% of small vehicle sales in the US today, and even accounting for the fact that a great majority of them are sold in northern states,…

Even though they don't have a factory-supported rally team anymore to justify the body style, I'd still like it if they kept the hatch option. Adds a certain amount of versatility to an already well-rounded car.

I learned to drive in Rochester winters, and now I live in Central Mass. You'd think people would get used to snow here, being a New England state and everything. I feel like Rochester gets double the snowfall and yet the people there complain half as much.

Can you please clarify Quattro vs. quattro? I thought Quattro was the car, and quattro was the AWD system, but people seem to be using it interchangeably.

Current Subaru vs current longitudinal Audi's aren't that different in setup. Unless you get the STI (front, center, and rear LSD) or S4/S6/S7 (with center and optional rear LSD, I think), they are all center LSD with open front and rear. The only difference between them is Subaru uses a viscous center diff, while the…

I'm not sure what ideas they actually tested, but my first inclination would be to try something like this:

Wouldn't that patent have expired by now?

By this time, Farmers was receiving so many calls about the car, company officials feared a public-relations crisis. Underwood had an idea. He'd put the car on public display. Farmers trucked the sad Dino to a private warehouse in Pasadena, where it remained on view for two weeks. The company invited viewers to submit…

What went through my head was more of a Avatar theme:

I call bullshit. Look up Alan Mulally and tell me what his degree is in.

Superior tires will only do so much if the people around you drive like idiots...

Reminded me of this:

There are some who want the WRX to be aggresive (even at the cost of ugliness), and others who want it to be more subtle and attractive.

I'm not sure that's an apples to apples comparison. There are many reasons that the GTO didn't do as well in the US as GM hoped. While subtle looks may have been one of the reasons, it's probably not high on the list. My own personal opinion is that the sleeper looks of the GTO are a kind of homage to the original,…

Anyone who compares this car to a Corolla seriously needs to have their eyes checked. It's a 6-speed manual, AWD, turbo, 26Xhp sports sedan. It's aggressive enough to be recognized as a WRX (hood scoop, quad exhaust, lip spoiler, front lip & rear diffuser, etc) , while not as polarizing as the last generation.

Hope springs eternal...

I think you may want to take a second look at the type of tests they are performing and revise your previous statement. Comparing these two crash tests and then pretending that it is meaningful in some way makes you look a bit daft.

Or rather Mitsubishi, which is a textbook example of a company that doesn't sell enough bland, reliable, mass-market cars to subsidize their fun cars. There's a reason that Subaru has wherewithal to update their fun cars, and to develop new ones like this, while Mitsubishi does not.