Agreed. I’d entertain the idea of this car; at like $2000. My first car was a 1991 Festiva. Part of me wondered of this was it but mine had more mileage.

Sometimes, the better deal does cost more up front. Simple fact of life.

But they’re all more money and/or more miles. Miles are not THAT big of a deal, but the whole point of this is to decide if it’s a deal or not, and that does comes into play.  

Wild. I work in CAD/CAD Data Management software so I am familiar with features in the software being like that, not so much hardware.

find a used WRX (or just base Impreza) for less money,

Can you actually buy a an AWD manual trans sedan with 53K miles for $6200, from any year?

Ha. Kinda true. Maybe more than kinda. Dammit you’re right.

IDK.  I kinda like it.  

So you’re implying that connecting to my car and pulling down my data at the border is recognized as

Mind sharing what that hardware is?

I agree.  I am sure this will work well for 99% of people 99% of the time.  But I just personally don’t like the subscription setup. 

Yup.  This is obviously illegal.  Any judge who thinks otherwise needs to just retire because they would be unfit to the point of negligence if they can’t understand this. 

While it would be great if automakers could plug this for us, why is the government actively conducting illegal activity? Just because the data is accessible, does not give you a right to it. 

You still have plenty of time (30 days!) before the failure of the credit card results in the deactivation of the product, and the failure of any of the other four points will also be obvious before you start driving.

Right. With subscription, there is usually some form of improvement/quality assurance baked in.

While correct, that failure point still exists it’s just at a frequency of every 30 days. And the failure point has 5 points inside of it. Credit card needs to be working, Phone needs to be working, Bluetooth needs to be working on the phone and the airbag, and you need internet.

At one point fire protection was a subscription.

You’re not a bitter old man. This is just a lazy business model and lazy product development. Who in their right mind would rely on bluetooth for a safety device? Ignore the subscription issue for a moment.  I don’t want to rely on the over crowded frequency Bluetooth uses and I believe you’re then also beholden to…

Cool.  Going to look into them as I just like software too. 

Sorry, typo in my last comment that would be really confusing and I can’t modify it now.