I’m guilty of the offense. I had a STI hatch, and would get waved at constantly (fast Subarus are stupidly common in New England). Felt rude not to wave back. Now that I’ve gotten rid of the car, I must say I don’t miss it.

Never go below OEM-quality with rotors and pads.

http://thegarage.jalopnik.com/why-expensive-oil-is-a-waste-of-money-1797241527

WRX/STI owners do it as well.

I’ve considered mounting a pistol holster back there. Out of the way and mostly concealed, yet still within reach if necessary (hopefully never).

I’ve never tried plugging in a flashdrive, but my 2013 Volvo handles my old iphone 4 as a mp3 player as well as I could expect, and better than every other system I’ve used (glares at Subaru).

I can’t speak for the lower-level cars (30s, 40s, and 60s), but the 70/80/90s generally had decent interiors in recent years (except maybe for the XC90, which was starved for a refresh for many years). The interior build quality was worthy of the price tag, and I liked how their designs were generally less ‘busy’ and…

Right, but that wasn’t available in MY2013. So they had the obnoxious touchscreens, but no Android Auto or Apple Carplay to take advantage of it.

Disagree. If you’re talking about the entry-level C30 model or the previously out-of-date XC90, sure, but I’ll put the interior of my XC70 up against anything in its model year short of a A8/7 series/S Class.

I personally don’t want a large touchscreen. I think there’s something to be said for the fact that I can access every single function on my car’s media center/nav system without removing my hands from the steering wheel.

I’ve seen a cop only once on Merritt parkway (other than for construction), but he wasn’t pulling anyone over, just sitting in the grassy triangle between the exit ramp and the on-ramp. It was dark, so I couldn’t even tell what kind of cop it was or whether he was using radar.

Your original post sounded like you had a fairly specific beef in mind, but alright.

Actually, different person, but it’s amusing to see that your jimmies are still rustled.

I was impressed that they didn’t use a visually similar, non-turbo 3000GT. I doubt anyone except an owner/ex-owner would notice.

Huh, small world.

.......Oh.......damn, my bad.

I’m surprised, I didn’t have any trouble finding mine.

Used to be a 3000GT VR-4 or a 2nd gen Viper.

That seems like an extremely convenient and contrived definition specifically tailored to absolve people of color from acts of racism and bigotry.

I see, so it’s not that you couldn’t make the bolts stronger (through heat-treating) or larger for additional strength, but the benefit to the TTY method is consistency and repeatability of clamping force when assembled.