joshuagjohnston
Joshua Johnston
joshuagjohnston

This was just about a year ago, so I’ll have to try and dredge up a bit of my memories of the experience, but sure.

Nope, no Subie for me.</subienazi?>

I’m down for that idea.

Actually, the NRA would *love* to make fully automatic weapons more widely available. This is why some of us that own guns can’t stand the fucking NRA, which today is an industry lobby and not a shooter’s lobby.

The problem with your argument is that “silencers” don’t actually *silence* guns. And you don’t use a silencer for self defense, or home defense, you use it for training and target practice. If I go to a range with a silencer, I’m still wearing ear protection but I’ll be able to wear ear protection that doesn’t block

Here’s one way to look at it.

The whole time I had my 2013 LaCrosse, I could only think “I wish this were a wagon, I wish this were a wagon...” like it was some kind of mantra to get home from Oz. I’d keep seeing pictures of the various Opel wagon options and feel jealous as hell.

I would have swallowed a whole lot of my infotainment demands, were I in XC70 territory, even CPO. Good luck!

If you buy a car with financing and don’t get GAP insurance through your insurance company, you’re putting yourself in far, far more risk than I would ever be comfortable with, myself. My boyfriend had a 2002 Grand Prix in 2005, and it got totalled when some drunk idiot took the front end off of it. Fortunately, we

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