If you’re trying to avoid VAG and hate the Outback, your options aren’t so much limited as non-existent, unfortunately.

If you’re looking for a wagon, I’d probably go CPO/New Outback or some model of affordable CPO Audi wagon. Those seem to be the only real options that exist and still qualify as something like a true wagon.

Hell, here’s another fun thing to watch out for. The kind of paperwork a shitty dealership will throw at you when they’re trying to get you to focus on a monthly price for a car instead of the *actual* price of a car. This is the result of sending back a crappy offer three times, after they refused to give us the…

If Subaru had been a bit better with the infotainment system design and controls, I probably would have been a lot more interested in the Outback. I know it sounds like a shallow way to judge a car, but at the very least I wanted something with physical knobs and buttons on it, and the ability to use Android Auto in…

Yeah, but it was positively cramped in person-volume. It didn’t help that I was coming from a first gen Infiniti Q45, then a 2013 Lacrosse, both of which had excellent amounts of legroom. The Lacrosse in particular has an amazingly comfortable back seat, it almost made me want to let someone else drive it more often.

You and I live in the same neck of the woods, based on your username, I’m just down the hill on the NV side. I’ve joked repeatedly that if you live up around the lake, you got issued an Outback when you registered to vote with a local address. You’re not helping the case made by people who got offended when I made…

Not sure what model/year of Hyundai turbo you’re referring to, but when I got my 2017 model Santa Fe Sport with the turbo last year I was a bit disappointed to learn that they’d dropped 20 horsepower from it in comparison to the 2016 model - at least, until I found out why they’d done it. Apparently what they did was…

The Outback was just not quite my cup of tea, admittedly, but I think it would suit most people quite well. I see a ton of them around here in northern NV, and my boss has a 2016 that I got to check out after she picked it up. I don’t think I could live with the center console controls and infotainment system, the…

Personally, I like the new one’s styling a lot more. The hood doesn’t look as ungainly where it meets the windshield, and all things considered they did a pretty good job “dechunkifying” the design theme. The 2017 model looks a lot sleeker and refined while still having that pronounced front end and shoulders that…

I used to feel the same way you did, and then last year I found myself needing (really, just seriously wanting) more space than a sedan could offer with less fuel economy destruction than a truck or van. I’m a big guy, and unfortunately that rules out a lot of smaller options like a Golf Sportwagen. I definitely…

Hyundai/Kia did a good job of making those available to a wide variety of car over a several year range last year, which was a big part of my reasoning behind picking up a 2017 Santa Fe Sport. Knowing that I can at least pick my poison of three different user experiences instead of just one that’ll rapidly become…

I really wish the CX-7 had still been on the market last year, the CX-5 was just too small and the CX-9 way too large.

Agreed.

Not necessarily, in extreme cases you might see that, but if you want to see a better aggregate, that’s what Metacritic is for.

Unless the gift is from the developer of the game, or a proxy for the developer, in which case it could be a bribe. This is a big, big problem with Steam right now.

This has everything to do with that, because disgruntled fanboys will review games they don’t own just to drive the score down.

If he’s getting his hands on all those drugs and keeping a buttsex log that has numbers in it that must sound like Trek stardates, I suspect desperation isn’t a big factor.

One thing that’s nice to know is that you can buy additional remotes, power bricks, and pigtail cables so you can cut these strips apart and use them in multiple segments. I recently bought a roll of these lights, and the accessories to let me make 5 complete units from it for under $20.

One thing that’s nice to know is that you can buy additional remotes, power bricks, and pigtail cables so you can…

It just looks so terribly sloppy to me, and they all look really cheap and chintzy even though they’re OEM equipment. I think it’s just a terrible design, and would prefer it to be integrated into the dash like every other car.

I don’t understand how people can accept Mazda’s whole “Here, we glued a cheap tablet to the dash.” layout, myself.