Some 13 year old must have been banned from Xbox Live so now they are hanging out here.  

“To answer your first question: You can’t have a V6 AWD Camry, it’s four-cylinder only for now. Second: AWD on this car, as ever, is no substitute for snow tires. If you’re planning to try and plow through the fluffy slushy white stuff, getting a set of dedicated snow wheels on your front-drive car is going to be much…

Somehow I managed to survive driving the Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Lakes area for years with my 106hp hyundai accent.

Too bad they never brought the Utes here...

Thank you Torch for writing this. When I read elsewhere that GM was essentially surrendering Australia, Thailand and vast swathes of Asia I was disheartened. While GM has had this coming for decades it’s still sad to watch.

1) A car is not an investment

And BTW, I drive an Xterra, so GO FUCK YOURSELF WITH YOUR FUCKING GAS MILEAGE BASED SELF-WORTH.

2019 Camry XLE V6: 22 city/33 highway

Not really. See, I still care deeply about automobiles. That’s why I’m on here every day. That’s why I can name every car I pass on the road, year-make-and-model. That’s why I do my own wrenching and would love to have a project car sitting in my garage/driveway right now. I haven’t “given up” on cars, merely that I…

I guess I’ve just never had the need for an AWD car, I live in eastern Canada and spent the last 10 years in a 2003 Civic and never got stuck anywhere.

In your pathetic little rage, you’ve failed to address both the fact that every version of my crossover gets better fuel economy than certain models of the equivalent sedan, and also the fact that my crossover is compliant with 2019 model year CAFE standards for a passenger car. Nice try, though.

Trucks are a pain in the ass to rent every time you need to move something. I just renovated my whole house and a liftgate and folding seats made that whole process a whole lot easier than having to rent a truck several times a week for 8 weeks.

And, on the flip side, fuel economy should be better at altitude, between lower aerodynamic losses (thinner air = less drag) and lower pumping losses for a given power level (less oxygen per liter = wider throttle opening for that power).

Toyota’s been hard at work trying to make their cars less boring. I just bought a 2019 Rav4 with AWD and, while it’s certainly not a performance machine, it looks great and is much more capable off-road than I’d ever expect out of a $27k crossover. 30 MPG combined is a nice touch, too, coming from a V6 car where I’d…

Settle down, Bevis.

These are the kind of aggressive generalizations that ruin blogs like these. Please stop.

For whatever it’s worth, I’ll give you my own anecdotal experience. I used to drive “spiritedly” every day. I used to feel as you do, that the only people who drive Toyotas are people that don’t give a shit…

yeah, the 4 wont be “fast” but its more than enough, even up at altitude.  The biggest slow effect was likely just not being used to what altitude does to cars up here.

View must be nice from your high horse is it?

Hot take: You don’t need the V6. Up here in the Rockies, people seem perfectly content puttering around in their even-more-gutless Crosstreks/Legacies/Imprezas, so this would definitely feel like an upgrade.

Andrew, that’s the most honest disclosure I’ve ever read on this site. Well done. Utah snow = Colorado snow. You can’t say no, or you’re an idiot if you do.

non turbo cars most definitely lose power the higher you go. As the owner of a gutless 2008 Outback i can vouch that picking my way on dirt roads/trails above 9k feet things become dicey when having to putter around in 1st gear