“The carmaker wants you to believe that it sticks with older tech because that tech still satisfies customers and meets the company’s QDR targets.”

Still always the answer

What you have to understand about Conservatism is at its core, it is about preserving an in-group protected by the law but not bound by it, and an out-group bound by the law but not protected by it.

Nope, it’s this...

Unless this guy is going to altitude and/or actual 4x4 trails the correct and obvious answer is: Outback.

The answer right now is HYBRIDS with 100 mile EV only range. In theory, you use less of both resources, with better weight, we can keep vroom vroom noises, it’s a good compromise. Combine that with better telecommuting opportunities, small scale community power grids to ease demand from the motherships...Idk, that…

Clearly this will be a 4GC/A5 sportback version of the TLX.

You can have a red/white/blue livery while being classy. Here’s an early design by Raymond Loewy himself. While the current design is iconic, this color scheme definitely would’ve worked too.

I like that the Tundra shares quite a bit with its competitors, the same way you might share your wife with a friend. It seems weird, but it’s actually masculine and modern. In the world of design, you want to be a sponge, and just soak up all the details. Don’t wrestle with “what you should do” on design. 

The Audi S8 from Ronan

You must mean the most important vehicle in the Back to the Future franchise. The producers spent three entire films of a movie franchise focusing on a time travelling Delorean, and totally missed the star of the show.

I have spent the last 18 or so months reconditioning and enjoying a 2002 LeMans Blue M5 and have been following prices on BAT religiously ever since prices started to get crazy. The car had roughly 125K miles on it and while the previous two owners had performed and documented most of the things that needed to be done…

The secret sauce to the crosstrek is a trifecta of affordability, versatility and capability.

Not in the neighborhood I live in (DMV). Houses are going for $100k over, and people are paying it! Cash, no-appraisal, you name it.

House valuation is a notoriously shady practice. When we sold our house 2 years ago, the shady loan company that the buyers used sent over a shady appraiser, and I happened to be home when he came by. So I asked him a couple questions, and he was EXTREMELY blunt about his job.

I heard you are looking for a perfect two car solution. Any questions?

Nah, there were a few cool (looking) Liberties before.

The current review trend of “we have to review this crossover, and it’s fine, but we hate it and it represents everything wrong with the market” is not as avant garde as they think.

Got to love Jalopnik - some pos death machine gets reviewed lovingly. Some nice, functional, safe new car gets shit on.

I’m not going to reply to each of you individually, but it seems that some of you missed my wink-wink, nudge-nudge. Sorry it wasn’t more clear.