Spark plugs on Subaru Boxers can be even worse. You still have to remove the battery and intake. But there’s typically just BARELY room between the cylinder head and fender wall to physically remove the spark plug. But getting to the plug involves using about half a dozen miscellaneous wobble extensions, u joints, and…

Seems like more of a Volvo move. Well, I guess if Volvo did it nobody would notice. 

The powers that be at Jalopnik ran the analytics and found that anti-Tesla/Musk articles drive clicks.

False damage claims can be an issue with any rental car. Plenty of stories of people getting dinged by Hertz and the like for damages they didn’t do. Best defense is to thoroughly document the condition of the car before and after you rented it. 

It does have a thirst for blood like all in its lineage, but in the way that a Chihuahua does because it’s distantly related to wolves. 

Here in Texas, cracked dashes are pretty common for any 20+ year old car. A lot of it is heat cycling. The foam used to pad the dash expands/contracts slightly from heat cycles. When the car is parked in the sun on a hot day, the dash might hit 150*, and then on a cold day it could go down to 20*. The material that…

What advantage does this automobile have over, say, a train, which I could also afford? 

What I want to know is why they held a Cars and Coffee event in a snowstorm. 

Norway is super long, but the vast majority of the population lives in the Southern 1/3 of the country. I’m sure it varies from person to person, but I don’t think that many folks are going from Southern cities like Oslo to Northern cities like Tromso on a regular basis, and probably most that do are going to fly.…

Or they could just ask to take it over. It’s not like India is a hostile government. Better than Bezos or Musk doing it. 

Only way you can use GA is if it’s a charter. If you are selling tickets individually, then you have to have full airport security (which also means using a major airport). That’s why a lot of those short hop services over the years have tried to sell subscriptions- it gets around TSA/FAA rules.

The current generation has a different ECU and different aero on the chassis. But I’d probably get mid-teens if I mostly drove around town. I’m about 60/40 highway/street. 

Maybe, but does it really outcompete regional jets and Southwest for that? Even though fuel costs would be lower, other fixed costs (pilots, landing space, etc.) would be the same but spread amongst fewer passengers.

As far as I can tell, they are pretty united that the Truckers are a bunch of asshats. 

First gear: the market has shifted as car buyers have gone upscale. It used to be that MOST people bought a cheap car. Millions bought cars like the VW Beetle and Ford Pinto, where as bigger/nicer cars often sold in smaller numbers. Now, automakers are selling every car they can make and the “default” car is more like…

Not much of a surprise to Subaru owners. They’ve always had terrible fuel economy relative to the competition. My STI gets in the high teens.

If you get the CVT in the WRX, the transmission should be pretty similar to the Ascent (they claim it’s different, but probably mostly just programming). 

Yeah, this is more of a short hop private jet.

What 60s car had a general “check engine” light? Most would have just had low oil pressure warning lights and overheat lights.

“Since the EJ is no longer used by Subaru, the ones you see on the roads (or on Facebook Marketplace) today are all reaching that age where certain maintenance items are due, regardless of mileage.”