Good advice is good advice.

“Fuck you, you’re fixing it, and you’re paying for my rental” has to be an extremely satisfying way to respond to an insurance provider. Special place in hell, with lawyers and politicians.

Agreed, with a simple if-then-else statement to follow:

I have a ‘15 CVT and the fuel economy numbers you quote are misleading. The brochure “25” highway mpg represents a mix of the mpg you’d get using Intelligent, Sport Intelligent, and Sport Sharp. Using Intelligent mode on the highway yields me about 37 mpg at 55mph and 34 mpg at 65mph. At times, I wish I had the manual…

You are absolutely right, and in fact I would have loved for it to be a DCT like my Ralliart was. CVT is not the "best" option currently for this platform, but it offers Subaru 2 things; 1-payout in its investment into CVTs and 2-the ability to get real world performance data to improve the CVT for cars like this. …

That equals a 5.4 second sprint to 60 in the six speed manual and 5.9 in the CVT. Yep, CVT wasn't a lie, it's true. There is a "sport sharp" setting for the CVT, which makes the CVT act like it has eight gears. Don't buy the CVT. Just don't. Thanks.