Oh, you need to go drop some acid and check out the original brochure for the Cosmo, then!

Awesome write-up. You are the yin to David Tracy’s yang. We need both on this site for different reasons.

WOW. Yeah those are bad pictures. And this is why you don’t rip out the plastic and put down the floormats until the car is sold.

My dealer is planning on selling ours for $5,000 over sticker but I doubt we can get it. We have our BRZ tS marked up but we are bringing it back down to MSRP now.

This made me pause for a moment to ponder how an X1/9 is even less powerful than I ever imagined

Perhaps “nostalgia” was the wrong word (sorry?). However, I did have a huge interest in Russian military vehicles when I was young, and seeing how they compared to American hardware. Fast forward to the internet age and I suppose that curiosity extended to cars now that more info is available on them.

That’s fine! You don’t have to have an interest in them.

I like to learn about them, it’s interesting to see how they developed versus the free market cars. Look at the Trabant! What a wacky car. It was built with what they had access to, which was not a lot of proper resources and materials. It’s shittiness is what…

Haha! I mean, sure, I get that- but tell that to 9-10 year old me who was frequently riding his bike to the city library to pour over the massive tome that was Jane’s All The World’s Aircraft. I mean I was a tween/teen in the 90's but I had a good amount of knowledge absorption going on in the 80's, that’s where my…

I’m 37, grew up in the 80's and didn’t get internet until 1993 when I was 13, and before that I was super into cars and military vehicles/aircraft, and so there wasn’t a ton of info available about Russian cars at that time. Fast forward to today where I am slowly branching out to learn about more obscure vehicles,…

Offering the AWD on the base engine is a genius idea- this is going to go right after Subaru shoppers, who mostly buy the 4 cylinder Legacy (probably like 100 to 1 over the 6 cylinder model).

Jenny Lewis is my imaginary girlfriend. So, she’s taken, in case anyone else was looking to imaginary date her

I never get these- I get putting it in the wrong gear, but did the resulting panic cause the driver to completely mash the throttle and hold it there?

I respect this. Some people just want a cruiser with the top down, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Disregard the shit talkers. Everyone likes cars for different reasons.

Looking at related articles at the bottom of this story, the one that mentions Laguna Seca, could this F2003 at Road Atlanta be the same exact car that smashed the Laguna Seca record too?

Good job, Ford, Subaru has had all that for like 3 years now, some of the features longer

I don’t know anything about this Mr. Lane but it seems like a very nice gentleman with a lot of money and a predilection for strange cars, and somehow turned it into a museum to make more awesome things happen using the museum status:

I guarantee it’s about two seconds- maybe 1.75 or so?

Human control *should* override the input, however the car’s Brake Override System was kicking in, where if both brake and gas are pressed, it listens to the brake. You can thank all those people in the runaway Prius’ for that one.

The 6MT may *feel* faster, but it isn’t. But there are still good reasons to drive the manual, and I would never talk anyone out of wanting to do so!

This was a slight case of operator misunderstanding. The EyeSight gives you like a full 2 seconds of beeping before it slams on the brakes. All you need to do is feather the brake pedal to tell the system you are alert and in control, and it does nothing.

The sneaky thing Subaru is doing though, is in the normie cars with manuals: