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Was gonna say, I see these all the time in LA.

I’m on my 2nd Forester as well! Another thing that the Foz in particular has spoiled me with is visibility. It has awesome visibility all around and I have yet to sit in another vehicle (short of a pickup or a convertible with the top down) that compares.

For sure, and I would definitely want a fun/track car to be low. But for daily driver utility and ease of use I think crossovers nail it.

Definitely a minority opinion here at Jalopnik but I really think that the height of my Forester is the correct height for a car, at least for someone my height (6'0"). It’s as natural as can be to get in and out of my car, whereas it’s kind of a physical ordeal for me to get in or out of a low sedan or hatchback. I’m

Favorite Corolla? Easy:

As someone who recently moved to LA and doesn’t ride motorcycles, I have no problem with lanesplitting. I see it done the correct, safe way (not much faster than the traffic around the motorcycle) almost every time I drive and it’s great. I feel less concerned for the riders when they’re lanesplitting rather than

I would love some Keys/Bahamas island hopping. Make the ocean more than just the map border while providing some really cool environments. Yeah, I want this too now...

Unless Rockstar decides to do a totally new location for GTA VI, I feel it has to be Vice City. Liberty City and San Andreas have been both done twice as of GTA V, while Vice City has been done once. It makes sense to give the last location in the original 3D trio its second game before moving on do different places,

Actually, this would instantly make all these weird 4-door things 1000% cooler in my book. Fastbacks are cool. Vintage 4-door fastbacks are very cool. Fastback is a cool word. Being taxonomically correct is cool.

They would still be pointless, but I wouldn’t dislike them anymore. Lots of pointless things are cool.

I only fly if absolutely necessary. My first choice is to drive, but if it’s a distance long enough that I wouldn’t enjoy driving (i.e. more than 12 hours) I get a sleeper car on Amtrak. Only when I don’t have the extra time to ride the train and the distance is very long do I reluctantly get on a plane.

Well I live in the land of image (LA), and the 500 is a pretty image-friendly car, so I wouldn’t be surprised if a good chunk of those 5370 are here.

IND is my favorite airport I’ve ever been in. It’s pretty awesome.

However, as someone who lived less than an hour from Indy for a good number of years, the airport is pretty much the only good thing about Indy. (ducks for cover)

I agree with a lot of this, but I don’t think killing off Fiat entirely is necessary. I don’t know sales numbers, but I see 500s all over the place. Just kill off the bloat (aka 500X/500L) and double down on the normal 500.

I'll have to think about this question, but my gut says ask for a modern interpretation of an F40. No tech wizardry, just an engine that sounds primal, a sequential transmission, and gorgeous bodywork. That would probably make me happy.

Because unlike in all of those places, freight rail is the bulk of our rail industry. Our freight rail mops the floor with freight rail from any other country except Canada (which is part of our same network) and Russia.

Amtrak is in the middle of getting a bunch of new locomotives from Siemens. The locomotives have never really been the problem, even the current Genesis locomotives that are ubiquitous can go over 100 mph. They just aren’t able to mostly because of the tracks which are either not well maintained, not rated for those

Just get a sleeper car. The long distance Amtrak trips are fantastic in those. Coach is always awful on long distance trips.

I agree that we badly need a real high-speed rail network, but in general Amtrak gets priority over freight trains, which have to wait for Amtraks a lot longer and more frequently than the other way around. The problem is that there’s so much traffic that inevitably even the highest priority trains will have to wait

Torch, I’m so glad you wrote this article. I’ve ridden Amtrak a few times and I feel like I can argue both for and against Amtrak, depending on how you do it.