I disagree. I’m 0/2 for positive Subaru sales experiences in Portland, OR. In both cases, I had to deal with shifty sales guys trying to upsell me at every turn, tacking on stupid extra fees, etc. I walked out of the first crappy dealer, but bought my Outback from the second one after a lot of headache-inducing…

Yep. It wasn’t that long ago that I saw great condition E30 M3s in the $15k range, and I thought you’d be crazy to pay that much. I’m regretting that now.

This scenario wasn’t lost on people when they reserved the Model 3. My day 1 reservation wasn’t just excitement (although I’m fooling myself if I say that didn’t play a role), but also a realization that Tesla’s in the home stretch on running out of credits. 

Part of the demonstration was automatic charging, though. It’s not truly autonomous if it requires a person standing at the chargers ever few hundred miles. Ultimately, Elon has said the SuperCharger network will work automatically, without you having to get out of the car.

That’s not a bad idea. The old Spark EV had 400 lb-ft of torque, and that thing was a real handful up to about 45mph.

Nope, they are unique to the i3, although for being a one-car tire, they aren’t as expensive as you’d think, about on part with a set of tires for my Outback.

Nope, neither was even close to $50k, but I guarantee there are 500 people out there that will buy this.

It’s a Subaru. If you’re buying a Subaru for a well-appointed interior, then I have bridge to sell you.

Maybe, but they do need to simulate a heavy payload, equivalent to the sort of heavy satellites and such this rocket will be carrying.

This isn’t Tesla’s stunt. It’s a SpaceX rocket, and they needed a payload for this this first test. I know Elon runs both companies, but this is his personal car.

I wasn’t saying it was good. My point was that this Infiniti engine is attractive to me since although it requires premium, it’s still a lot better mileage than my car that requires premium today. I was giving a counterpoint to the people whining about it requiring premium.

It’s interesting to me how many of the cars on the “buy new” list have huge aftermarket ecosystems. I wonder if people are shy of previously modified cars (knowing Subarus like I do, I’d only ever buy another WRX brand new).

Exactly, and since my Outback gets 20mpg and requires premium, I would fall in that Venn diagram of cost effectiveness, although I’m not in the market for another SUV.

Well, my current car (an H6 Outback) gets about 19mpg and requires premium, so getting 29mpg with premium would mean I could go an extra 135 miles for a 15gal fill. That would absolutely save me money.

50% more? Really? You mean that when the national average price of regular gas is $2.59, premium gas is $3.89?, over $1/gal more? I don’t believe you.

So? It’s not like premium is that much more expensive. Around here it’s $0.30/gallon more, so on a typical 15gal fill, I’m only paying an extra an extra $4.50 over regular gas.

Fiat-Chrysler owns Jeep and Dodge though, so Chrysler does technically make SUVs, just not ones with the Chrysler logo anymore. (Anyone remember the Aspen? Me neither.)

Yeah, they’re legal in Oregon. I’ve seen them driving around and they are fully registered with plates. My coworker has one.

Pilots are not small SUVs though.

But what about the X√2 ?