Yes, but they’re still selling like crazy. I see 2017 Pilots everyone, but hardly ever any Traverses.

Well, all of the luxury German makes are notorious for understating their hp figures, so no great surprise there.

By “they”, do you mean the Traverse is bigger? You’re right about that.

I seriously doubt anyone cross-shopping an LC 500 is going to be interested in an M6. Maybe a 650i, but not an M car.

Honest question: Why would someone buy a Traverse over say, a Honda Pilot, a Toyota Highlander, or similar CUVs?

Yeah, My 2007 Outback wagon 3.0R has factory navigation, power leather seats for driver and passenger, adjustable lumbar support, dual climate control, huge moonroof, and significant sound deadening improvements over the Impreza. I added a reverse camera to the OEM navigation (which always supported it, but Subaru…

To be fair though, the Camaro is quite a bit more money than a BRZ.

To be fair here, the Legacy was always marketed as a more premium grown-up car relative to its cheap, scrappy little brother, the Impreza.

The Subaru permanent AWD system is superior to the CR-V’s FWD-based AWD in pretty much every way.

$1500 isn’t too terrible when you factor insurance and maintenance into the equation. Still, I’d prefer to put that money into an asset I’ll eventually own.

I drove to Hole in the Ground, which is in Bumfuck Nowhere, Oregon, and is arguably the most accurately natural landmark in the state. It’s literally a giant crater in the desert formed by a massive volcanic explosion.

Oh I agree Subaru’s AWD is excellent, and I personally don’t mind the drawbacks it has in comparison to the traction benefits. I’ve been able to take my Outback through snowy service trails even Jeeps got stuck in.

Nobody I know over there has, no, but I have heard of that happening.

I know, but I tend to think the H6 will be put out to pasture soon, and that the 7 seat Tahoe thing will use an FA20DIT like the Forester XT.

Having traveled all over Asia for business, yeah, this just seems like a typical corporate job in China, Japan, or Korea.

The H6 is a superb engine (I have one), but it’s getting long in the tooth these days. A 3.6L six cylinder with only 250hp and 22-ish MPG is putting it further and further behind the competition, and it hasn’t had any real updates since 2010, when it went from the peaky 3.0L to the more torquey 3.6L.

Best: 1992 325i E30 convertible (the convertibles didn’t change to the E36 style until 1993).

It certainly isn’t legal to drive a car on the street without airbags when it originally came with them.

Not as far as I’m aware. I live in surburbia outside of Portland, and this hasn’t happened to me, or anyone I know. We have Amazon Prime, so we’re constantly getting packages, but we don’t let them sit more than an hour or so. That said, the vast majority of the packages we get aren’t valuable. You want to steal a…

Huh. I liked the idea of being able to haul taller things like furniture and such when needed, but having a sealed cabin when not needed. One could argue a pickup with a bed cover does the same thing, but bed covers aren’t meant to changed on the fly.