Why? Just because it’s “real gears”? I don’t get it. CVTs aren’t horrible these days. I almost—almost—get the nostalgia for manuals. But the way people are increasingly nostalgic for automatics just boggles the mind, and pretty well demonstrates that the aversion for CVTs (which has displaced the older aversion for…

There is still one big downside, and it includes perhaps the three most dreaded letters in all of car-dom: “Every 2020 Legacy features a Lineartronic® Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT),” according to Subaru.

You’ve got kids, it’s Michigan(snow), want to haul stuff and camp. How about a Flex.

He said he has the house and can specifically afford this and wants it. Presumably he’s saving for the other things. He asked for car advice, not life advice.

You Sir are going the buy a Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo with the full glass roof.

Let me tell you about a pair of amazing inventions called Apple Carplay and Android Auto...

There’s dedicated local circuitry with a buffer of only a few seconds that listens for a keyword. It is very difficult to monitor what someone is saying without having the blue ring lights turn on after being triggered by saying Alexa. If the blue ring lights aren’t on, your voice is NOT being sent anywhere outside of…

Alexa! WHY DID YOU TURN!!

Alexa is fucking useless, about one step above Siri so no thanks.

GTFOH with this thing. VW has been teasing this stupid bus since the 1990s. 

“That car, developed by famed engineer and Lexus LS godfather Ichiro Suzuki”

More like you’ll get another one when it’s available. there’s no way they’d set aside 3 cars for each client.

This has to be, hands-down, the best story I’ve read on Jalopnik!

Translation: “The kids who want these cars can’t afford them, so we can’t justify development costs of adding another option. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go work on the automatic for the new Supra.”

Many examples can be had for less.

A Miata

So what’s the difference between all the GT trims?

Do the pizza tour. You’ll go home with a fancy Land Cruiser and memories of the best pizza you’ll ever eat.

THAT HORRIBLE STRIPE. makes it look like a striped bass.

You won’t see this car or anything remotely like it in North America.