Rooting the KF is trivial. Cyanogen 9 runs beautifully (even if it eats up battery charge). I'm using the Energy ROM - there are other good ones out there. You can install all these apps then. Even Instagram (it just won't do anything). For the price, it's still hard to beat, unless you're looking at a Nexus 7...

I would have to say that if any reader of this site says anything less than: "Hell. Yes!", they need to be banned.

When I was a kid, my dad drove a 1980 Vanagon. It was a manual (4-speed, if I remember right). Ate starter motors like they were potato chips. We went on several cross-country driving vacations in the thing (central IL to Seattle, WA being the longest). I have fond memories of being 7 to 10 years old, pushing that…

That's the perfect excuse! Just think of it, man!

I drive the bastard child of your car and your wife's car - the Forester XT. I'm waiting for the slushbox in it to go out (180k in and still going strong) so I can swap in the 6-speed from the STi (I'm pretty sure it just bolts right up). Then, as is a well-known mod for the XT - put the bigger STi turbo on, instead…

haha. Love the graphic!

Aren't those wrong-wheel drive? Holy torque-steer Batman!

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. I was too stuck on the small-car-big-engine angle.

I'm struggling to find anything interesting, besides the Viper, that Chrysler could put that V10 in, and I'm having trouble. V10 SRT Dart?

That's actually kinda awesome, in a cartoony way. Total CP.

I'm pretty sure the rest of your children are going to be exceedingly jealous of your eldest when she's bombing around in a WRX, and they're stuck in an old VW with just enough power to get out of it's own way. ;) I kid.

#6 - I own a Dell Inspiron Duo, you know, the netbook with the touchscreen that flips around and it becomes a sort-of-tablet? It's fairly well designed, except for a few problem areas. The webcam on this thing is located on the part of the screen frame that DOESN'T flip around. Want to use that webcam in tablet…

8 maintenance nightmares, 1 GTO, and one blown Subaru. The STI will run forever if you don't use it for what it was built for.

The way I'm reading these things is to just ignore the numbers, and read the rest of the review. There's no way you're going to rate a Veloster Turbo and a Jaguar on the same 100-point scale.

because there are no whole numbers left that are lower than 1. BMW couldn't call it the 'Zero', or the 'Point-Five', now could they? Actually, both of those do sound kinda cool. At any rate, yes, bad idea mixing a rebadged Mini in the same model line as the current 1-series. Kinda like calling their car line…

Oh, yeah! I drive a grandma-gold forester XT. Quick enough to surprise you, but completely invisible to the cops.

I don't know, I kinda liked these things. I know they weren't that great as a car goes, but you can't deny that they do look good.

I would think the worst embarrassment to Maserati would the the Chrysler tc "by Maserati". Let's schill our company name to anyone who will buy it (and put it on a stinkin LeBaron).

My office shares a parking structure with a hotel that is the closest hotel to The Children's Hospital in Peoria, IL. Imagine my surprise when driving up the parking deck, I turn the corner, and the Batmobile is parked there! Lenny's been here all week. I've been hoping to meet him in passing in the elevator so I…

You wrote that whole rant just for the "tranny issues" comment. Admit it. :)