Management: The Rav4 and CRV are selling 400k units per year. Clearly, we need to make our SUVs look more Japanese.
Designer: You got it!

No... Its not just a bagel..

If you feel there isn’t much going on with a bagel, go eat a Sara Lee bagel, that’s all you deserve. It’s just round bread, it’s not chewy or taut on the outside or flavorful in any way.

Who puts comments like that in internal corporate emails? I have never seen any back and forth of that nature in 40 years in corporate environments, even in one-on-one email discussions.  From the nature of the topics being discussed, these should be a heck of a lot more professional.

No shit, Sherlock. But it was still a domestic badge made by domestic labor in a domestic location.

Considering the 15+ year owners of the Subaru Forester is 12.8% of Foresters sold... We’re talking about a pretty small segment. There might be more overlap than you are willing to admit between these two small populations.

I tried, unsuccessfully, to find the modern replacement for a camry wagon. My wife wouldn’t even look at a Venza.

K.

the only reason why they get replaced is usually rust too. Its the same with us Saabaru/ WRX Wagon owners

yes it is. How many manual transmission CUVs are there with about 250 HP? I’ll wait

yup they don’t make that car anymore (forrester with turbo and manual). the new one is much bigger while having the same power and a CVT tranny. Better to keep the old one going.

Don’t project your beliefs as the entire market. I know a few Gen1+2 Subie Forester owners who will tell you directly that they’re not replacing it because there isn’t a true replacement available. I’m not saying it’s the whole, I’m saying this is part of the logic that certain cars stay with their first owners for…

Built in California with union labor and wears a GM badge. Define domestic... Sure it shares substantial parts with the Matrix, but the Matrix was made in Ontario, like a healthy volume of Chryslers and GMs.

Part of this is also the willingness to upgrade. For things like that 15 year-old Forester, there is no denying that the vehicle is substantially different from what it was then. If it can’t be ‘replaced’ you keep driving it.

Has it been this long since Wagon Attack?

well...NZ national rugby team is known as the “All Blacks” because they wear all black. I thought it was a clever way to show us how worldly the writer is.  I wouldn’t call it cringe af though...

You do need to learn. As such, you comment is cringe AF.

This is so common everywhere in US. I can often see them just looking in the other direction looking for cars coming even when there’s green light but never spearing a glance towards direction they are moving to. I learnt to check they are actually looking at me before crossing the road but I saw parents with kids…

That’s not the case in NYC, where cars make turns at the same time pedestrians have the walk signal. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen pedestrians scoot out of the way of cars that make turns thinking they have the right of way.