+1 for 90's awesome. Never to be awesome again...

and making sure your climate control adequately filters the smell of poverty from the cabin.

Do you guys not remember life in 1995?!? Am I that old?
No one really used those CD Changers much but rich people. They usually held the same 5 or 6 discs, and never changed for months because they were so hard to get to, in trunks, under seats, etc. The portable CD players had actual LINE OUT jacks on higher end…

I remember the first think I would do back in the day was put in one of those graphic equalizer boosters with the aux port if it didn't already have one. Those little boosters really made the sound pop and you could tune them however you wanted, usually 5 to 7 bands. 2015 and you still can't equalize and boost your…

For when you do not have the optional CD Changer installed.

Not bizarre or a mod. Auxilary ports have been around for a very long time, there might even be some of the full size ports you can step down with an adapter. It is still a valid input from anything from an old walkman to smartphone. Car manufacturers did away with most of them for cost savings and just being plain…

Am I the only one who had a mini-disc player in 1992?

My father in law was actually a QA at this plant, I will ask him when I see him next and see if he knows, I wouldn't get too excited though, it's doubtful he remembers.

Why does Scion push so hard to market that everything is "customizable" but going into any Scion dealer, it's just a matter of what's on the lot and getting something "customized" is like pulling teeth?

This thing looks SO MUCH BETTER than it used to. Wow.

The misconception has more to do with the type of crash rather than the availability of traction. A FWD car will almost certainly understeer, while a RWD car is likely to oversteer thanks to overcorrection. It's far scarier for the average Joe to crash facing backwards than forwards, so people just assume that FWD…

That myth comes from the terrible american cars of the 70's.

I think this is the point a lot of people are missing. It's not that rwd vehicles slip less than other drivetrains, it's that they are predictable and manageable when they do slip. People who are arguing the fwd and awd are better are doing it on the basis they slip less often. I'd rather slide 100 times a day in rwd…

As if ride height makes you magically better in the snow and rain, right? Never understood this one. I guess people confuse modern crossovers with the trucklike 4x4 SUVs that used to be more common in that segment.

That rear wheel drive vehicles are bad in the snow. I would gladly take a rwd vehicles predictable handling traits over fwd or awd. When your slipping in rwd it's easily noticeable and fairly easy to modulate. When your slipping in fwd or awd it comes out of nowhere and you're usually screwed.

SUVs are not good in the snow automatically. I used to hear this all the time. Two years ago during a brutal snow storm in New England, I watched a guy in a blazer try to make it through a foot of unplowed snow down my street. Made it 20 yards past my house before he got it stuck. Like hell I was going out to help an…

The people that think having AWD will make them stop in time not to hit the dude in front of them.

Fuck. No. Just give me some knobs.

According to manufacturers and dealers, a spare. No need to correct me if I'm wrong but I've heard you can have one as an option in some cases.