Cold.

Regarding safety of a new car versus a 10-year-old car, and as someone who works in the car industry: To a point, and it depends on what cars we’re talking about. It is absolutely not a black-and-white issue. “Dangerous” is a bit heavy-handed, much like the recent headline around “most dangerous cars.” Sure, but...

“Better gas mileage” = Don’t care. Given the option, I will always seek out the manual transmission. Driving engagement trumps a couple of MPG points every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

RE: Neutral

Loves me some PMJ.

I could see building this car, using crashed ST parts on a clean, not-crashed sedan, albeit probably at a higher dollar count.

At least the Altima I had performed its duties without fuss – traveling 160 miles roundtrip from Palm Springs to Eagle Mountain/Chuckwalla Valley Raceway for four days straight at very high speeds.

We can’t be sure that isn’t already the case.

I... wouldn’t be angry about that.

Seriously. 8:27 AM and I’ve already got my feels for the day.

As someone who occasionally works with an animal family in film: Yes, this is a big part of it.

Preach.

Well, yeah, completely aware of all that – interest rates, Subaru resale value, etc.

Cold. Accurate, but cold.

No, but you can teach your kids situational awareness, which may help them see a vehicle barreling through an intersection against a red light, help them notice a vehicle about to rear-end them, or avoid the oncoming vehicle that crossed over into their lane.

Regarding the 2019 Outback 3.6R Limited:

The last time we were out there, we shot around the clocktower square from BTTF (you can’t see it in our footage).

Having shot on Universal’s backlot several times, these images were really fun to run through.

I grew up with and love these old monster trucks that were based on production vehicles.

From a manufacturing and cost standpoint, I get it. And from a performance standpoint (reliability is another story) modern BMW inline-sixes are fantastic and readily available, so I get that, too.