Can’t argue. We rented a Legacy last summer when out in San Francisco. I actually appreciated the CVT as I was inching up hills at obnoxiously slow speeds in shitty SF traffic.

I had a loaner base Impreza for the airbag recall and also found it to be completely unintrusive and not perceptively different than a conventional automatic. This is also the case in my parents’ Accord. If it's not a performance car (a CVT in the WRX is a joke), it doesn't matter IMO.

Yup. I drove an Impreza with the CVT last fall and it was fine. Smooth is good.

Cant take jalopnik serious anymore when it comes to CVTs. Get over it, they arent going away and they arent that bad in fact I think they are great and Subaru has the best CVTs in the business.

Good cloth seats > leather seats, every day of the year.

Cloth seats will never sell here. ‘Murcans have to have something resembling leather. Even if it only smells like petrochemicals.

Well no one in their right mind will compare this ugly and proportioned thing to the GT, which is one of the most amazing looking cars today.

still not sure how demolishing concrete wounds through real people’s neighborhoods in order to provide access to downtown offices to people living in free subsidized sprawl houses fixes traffic

the links are in the article you didn’t read

nobody cares about idiots sitting in gridlock

stop using facts

the planet earth, where building freeways creates the demand for freeways, and removing them eliminates that demand.

Have you heard of subways and light rail? Have you been to a UK or European city?

It’s so dumb it has worked in many places already.

Light rail or subways with denser construction around stops?

I agree. Germany also taxes the hell out of fuel and provides interconnected high speed rail (gasp) with regional rail and an extensive bus network. Hell, the Frankfurt airport has a high speed rail station in the basement.

Does the Autobahn run through the heart of fucking Berlin? No. It does not. It goes around it. Like our urban highways should. 

Better solution would just be to tax the ever-loving shit out of any car driving along it.  If you want to use it to connect the airport and the mountains once or twice on a trip, go for it.  If you’re driving from the East coast to the West coast, you’ll just avoid it and take the ring road.

Nothing weird about it. Interstate routes were absolutely picked to create economic and/or social divides, and yes that’s definitely including by race. Believe me, as someone from that Birmingham area, I too am irritated that they’re just rebuilding the viaduct instead of doing something that makes any sense. And…

I think the science has shown that not every highway solves the issue of traffic.