Cars are certainly safer and more powerful than ever. They tend to get more reliable, too. But that’s what we should expect; it’s an almost inevitable result of engineering + time.

We had the same thing in Northern California but did not adopt the definite article.

It’s not clear if anyone in the chain of custody of this image did anything illegal. Jalopnik didn’t. The photographer might have breached a contract, or possibly wasn’t under one to begin with.

It seems like there are several available for almost identical money with 1/4 the miles.

You claim not to understand something and then dismiss the explanation. Go on being baffled why other people don’t share your personal taste then.

Me. I think the Subarus are nicer. I dislike TV set gauges and wood paneling and glare-inducing piano-black finishes and chrome trim all the other impractical, poor-wearing, baroque ornamentation that has become so popular.

You knew ringrat when he was a kid?

That’s how science works.

What an incredible waste of time.

I see what you did there

They were slow and boaty but (with the “Touring Suspension” at least) they had remarkably good brakes.

Well, unless it can’t complete an update before rebooting...

They could also just roll it back.

Need to pass a truck, especially at higher elevations? Big hassle in the Crosstrek.

Factory workers weren’t fired under pressure from nonparticipants in their industries’ markets.

Of course consumers are participants in the market. But their goal as market participants isn’t to see factory workers fired.

Do grid girls have agency, or were they not entrusted with it by their inferior fathers?

Gee, it’s almost as though she has a mind of her own. That she’s a whole person, in and of herself, and doesn’t need daddy to make decisions for her. I guess I’m a shitty parent for giving her agency.