Yeah, I know. It’s also the color of every leased CLA and Passat I see.

Or (shudder) silver.

More pressing to me is why US-market Benzes so rarely come in actual colors.

Was stationed in South Dakota.

No, thanks.

If that’s the point, they failed to make it. It simply...doesn’t work.

Nope. Those vents atop the dash look like an afterthought and ruin the whole thing. If they weren’t there or were better integrated, I could see your point. As it is, the center stack looks like someone asked my six year old to fashion a robot costume out of a box and some dryer ducting.

I’d be happier to see I-80 go to three lanes from Iowa City to Des Moines.

Yeah, I-35 and I-80 (the east-west arterial through Iowa) are much busier than the population of Iowa would suggest, because, well...it’s smack dab in the middle of the country and almost anyone going coast to coast is doing so on I-80...likewise, I-35 goes straight to (and through) Minneapolis.

Interstates weren’t…

No...I’m unfamiliar with Rennlist.

*Edit: ...and google-fu tells me why. I don’t own a Porsche.

The visibility WAS quite bad for about 1/2 hour. It was a fairly fast moving system...by the time we’d gotten to Ames, it was sunny and the plows were almost done with cleanup.

This is north of Des Moines- Through the DSM metro area I-35/I-235 is indeed much wider. Once you get out of the cities, though...there’s not much.

I got caught up in this storm (Highway 30 from Cedar Rapids to Ames, though, and not I-35.)

A couple of notes:

1.) This snow event was MUCH more intense (in terms of volume of snowfall over a short period of time) than was forecast. We went from dry roads to total whiteout conditions in less than 5 miles of travel.…

That commercial is further evidence that Subaru recently has become what Volvo was 30 years ago.

Subaru is now what Volvo was 25 or so years ago. Look at their respective advertising campaigns from then and now, and in places like New England and the Pacific Northwest, the Subaru-is-the-new-Volvo shift has been going on for a long time.

I agree!

I’m thinking of dumping my 2006 Cadillac STS for a new Accord Sport.

I don’t really have a question- it’s just something I’ve been thinking about every time the STS pisses me off with another malfunction.
Which is often.

Yep. I rented a 1.8T equipped FWD A4 once- the one with the CVT. VW throttle response + 1st gen CVT response = waiting a good second or so to actually get moving after asking the car to, you know, GO.

I would say, though, that there’s less of a technological and cultural divide between modern cars and your e39 than there is between it and Raph’s VW.

Much less.

From the looks of things, those cops aren’t able to rush anywhere.

My first car was a ‘78 Cougar; it was...inefficient.