And in a lot of places bud light and Pabst are a "way of life" still associated with "hipsters". It's kind of the point, hipsters pick out things that other people have loved for a long time and do them to be ironic.

Personally I love BBQ and PBR...I hope that doesn't make me a hipster but ut probably does.

1970 hp figures =/= to 2014 hp figures

It's a little more complicated than that with the Focus. Yes, the Hatchback is more expensive than the Sedan but its actually only a premium of $500 dollars not $2,000 for otherwise identical cars. The reason for this is that they don't offer the lowest of Focus trims, the Focus S, as a hatch back. The lowest…

because we are like sheep!

This article would be funnier if the mondial picture had been labeled beater Ferrari in the appropriate script

You don't get 300hp+ rwd sports cars?

This has been true since the first film where the robbed truck drivers while they were on the road rather than waiting for them to pull over at a truck stop like any other reasonable robber would... This definitely seems to take it to new heights. Get it? Yeah...you get it.

When I bought my C7 in March, all the local dealers (California) were asking these ridiculous markups. Instead I ordered mine from Ohio where winter was still going on for under MSRP and had it shipped. It sucks but what you are saying is not untrue, but wise consumers can usually find a way around it. You just have…

yes, they can, the 2.0 golf R makes 290hp as does the Audi s3. Also the Subaru 2.0 only makes 268hp which is hardly "almost 300". We all know 2.0T are capable of much more (see mercedes cla45 amg @ 355hp) but the new reality is that model separation is going to be more a matter state of tune rather than engine size…

Sorry I disagree, the 997 interior especially with the full leather fits the nature of the 911 very well

the 997 interior is actually very nice... The fact that you are lumping them together makes me think you don't know what you are talking about

the turbo actually looks the worst. The base model headlights look fine.

Interesting, what about "track mode" from what I understand this makes the magnetic ride control cars ride as hard as nails, maybe it makes the transmission mega aggressive too? I don't really care since I made my choice (and I am with you that this car is meant to have a manual) but certainly the shift speed/quality…

Engaging the manual shift mode is as simple as hitting one of the paddles (reserved for the rev match function on the manual car) or shifting below "D" into "M." Part of me kind of wishes there was a sport setting, one with more aggressive shift patterns in full automatic mode, like on some of the BMWs with the ZF8 or…

Nice Review, A couple of concerns about things you said. You say its not a Z51 package, but it has the Z51 wheels and spoiler. Does this mean it has the "appearance package"? That MSRP is pretty high for a non-z51 2LT...

Truth, They offered me a very fair price for my 3 year old WRX but nothing worthwhile on my 12 year old S2000.

It also has paddles. :)

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I would strongly argue that Subaru is at least as enthusiast oriented as Mazda if not more.

So you want a car with about 450hp that weighs about as much as a Stingray? Or you want a car with 600ish horsepower that weighs as much as a Z06? I suppose you want them to start around 50k and 80k respectively too? You must be out of your mind...