I crack open my sunroof and crank the heat up, which is even better.

Range anxiety is like F E A R: Fictional Events Assumed Real, and for those of us who actually owned one or more early EV/PEHV, range was a consideration but never an anxiety.

Can’t believe it took this long for someone to realize. I guess nobody cares whom they descended from anymore.

You mean the people behind the Pontiac Aztek.

My parents do that and it annoys the shit out of me. “But the iPad is easier to read” says my lovely mother. I sigh and pretend I didn’t know her, like I did in high school.

Unless you’re a single issue voter on guns then NRA is your man, er, group.

I get what you’re saying, and what you just stated is the central theme for both parties to point fingers and say “look, the government is broken!” and tries to get elected. The problem facing our government is a huge collection of these individual problems created by (I’ll use the veteran’s own words) bad decisions…

You hit the nail on the head. I commuted in a Spark EV for a year and it was perfect for 90% of my driving needs. For longer trips we had the Volt.

Go live there for 6 months. Preferably find a girlfriend/boyfriend and just immerse. Nothing motivates like hunger and libido.

You’ll realize eventually that the difference between being able to hit on a chick at some bar in Roppongi or order off a menu is far different than being able to communicate with the proper politeness/grammar. And the circular way in which polite Japanese society uses can be maddening.

4th Gear: having lived in China as an expat for a few years and a driver whose Buick GL8 (essentially an Oldsmobile Silhouette) took him and myself on a range of roads and road conditions, I say that China itself is a proving ground. One minute you’re on a smoothly paved road and the next you could be jarred out of…

Obviously someone who has never spent much time (if any) in China, nor speaks the language, let alone understand the culture.

What credibility?

Typical chaebol incest. And none of their heirs look anywhere near as good as Lee Min-Ho or Park Shin-Hye.

Exotic performance, economy/reliability in maintenance, what’s wrong with that?

You need to live in Japan for a while before you can make that statement.

I thought BC was overrun by Chinese by now? Or is that just Vancouver?

May have something to do with their need to print on carbon paper with multiple copies? They must have a mountain pile of it to go through because other companies are just printing out copies in Letter sized white paper or (gasp!) emailing you the receipt.

If you ever drive by the Subaru plant in Indiana (right next to the highway), you’ll see the cars they build parked prominently on a little hilltop display. It’s Legacy/Outback I think.

5th gear: I think the subscription model has its merits, and if it were around $600-$700/month (depending on regional insurance rates), I might seriously consider it.