A dealership pays a huge penalty from the manufacturer if a car ages beyond a certain point.  I bet that 200 was sold for 50% off MSRP at least.

Why not just paint it a flat color? 

I think we all know what happened. It only takes half a second or so of nodding off at the wheel at speed for things to go terribly wrong. Woods had painkillers in his system.

The Renegade combines unique and genuinely interesting looks with one of the most horrendously awful driving experiences available today.  

This is a big problem for Ford. Despite the fact that 99% of these will be used as grocery getter type vehicles, for the 1%, the car doesn’t do what’s advertised. I expect something that has been marketed as a baby Bronco, with a GOAT mode and “legitimate” 4x4 capability, to be able to perform like they say it can.…

Touch capacitive climate controls should have died with the first generation Ford SYNC systems.  Two huge thumbs down for the temperature and fan speed controls being touch capacitive. Those should be knobs, period. I just went from a 2017 Forester to a 2021 Outback. The Forester had massive, glorious knobs for the…

Why does it look like a Subaru Legacy?

Native of CO, too. This is true. My Subaru can and has made it up many roads that people wouldn’t believe, but very, very slowly.  I always let Jeeps go by. 

Exactly. Working at a dealership (a very busy dealership), plenty of Outback customers have that work done through us before they even leave with the car. We use a local shop to do the work, we pay them, the customer pays us....it’s thousands of dollars in markup. We also keep two or three modified vehicles in stock,…

From someone who is in charge of inventory at a Subaru dealership - it’s a trim level, not a sub-brand. Think Toyota TRD. Outback, Forester, Crosstrek. The demand is there, third parties are doing the work and Subaru wants to cash in on it.

I work for a Subaru dealership and have access to Subaru’s pipeline.  Wilderness editions are coming for Outback, Forester, and Crosstrek - in that order. It’ll be a trim level, not a sub-brand.

I work for Subaru.  It’s a trim level. 

I’m the inventory manager at a Subaru dealership. It isn’t a sub-brand, it’s a trim level. 2022 Outback, Forester, and Crosstrek will have a Wilderness trim, i.e., 2022 Subaru Outback XT Wilderness Edition. Outback first, then Forester (after its mid-2021 refresh), then Crosstrek. The Onyx Edition XT Outback will…

The ads you see are based on what you search for, good sir. 

Yeah,  it’s ugly 

I just rented a 300 for a week while I was in New Jersey and I must say, I really liked it.  It was quiet, comfy, and got pretty good gas mileage. It felt like a great cruiser and turned a few heads, too.  I think the name 300 still has power, Chrysler just needs to do something about it. 

I can confirm this - if a customer meets all of the credentials, the lease specials we (Subaru) advertise are real payments, but they’re on cars we never have in stock. The margins are much lower on cheaper cars, hence the reason dealerships are usually stocked up with loaded ones.  We have a lease special on a base…

hmmm.  while they certainly aren’t ugly, I don’t see much of a difference between these and the regular ones.  That’s a problem.  

I’m sorry, but that’s just dumb.  It looks like two Garmin GPS units that are clamped to the doors of the car

This is a step backwards in the exterior design department.  The old one looked like a proper off-roadable Jeep.  This looks like the Aviator’s ugly stepsister.