If you have the income to make extra payments, you probably don’t have bad enough credit to get a loan with such bad terms in the first place.

I’m glad you explained all this stuff!

Somebody who has been in school long enough to have gotten the credentialing required to be a professor at an accredited college has had exposure to the subject.

Interesting question, though they’re really supposed to just be “bad driver mode.” I think it could be argued that anybody who actually tries to make a leap of (faulty) logic to “my car has collision avoidance stuff in it so I can drive it drunk” should be immediately loaded onto a rocket and launched into the sun.

Well, this is a bad take. Drunk driving is bad. Saying it’s “demonized to the point of parody” is in the same vein as “not all of Hitler’s ideas were bad.”

Now, I admit that I didn’t go read the whole article because it really sounds like it has no redeeming value. That said, it seems to me — based on what you pulled out for us — that this whole article can be boiled down to “I don’t know what survivorship bias is.” One would hope that a college professor at any…

As long as they actually keep stuff on the lot representative of things you can order rather than just a bunch of fully loaded models, this is fine. We need to be able to see and touch things or they’re going to have issues with repeat business when people are disappointed with how their not-Platinum is when it shows…

Probably blew it up because they couldn’t be bothered to do proper maintenance, what with all the “easy fixes” they can’t be bothered to do.

That was my first thought. I’m not particularly good with identifying S-engines, but I *think* that’s an S52 manifold. I think the S50 has individual throttle bodies. Either way, if it’s an S50B32, you’d think the seller would have said that.

I’m still waiting for an answer to what everybody who buys a 5-7yr old used car are going to do with EV’s. An EV with a partied out battery is worthless to use and hilariously expensive to fix. The Stans claim that Tesla batteries will still be perfectly fine at that point, but I’d like to see some actual data on the…

Wow. You might want to take a nap or something before commenting next time.

Was the shifter itself a ZF design, or was just just the transmission? Practically everything uses variants of the 8- and 9-speed ZF transmissions. Further, they *could* have done an implementation even with the manually operated parking brake. My dad’s BMW uses a ZF 8-speed, has a manual handbrake, and will freak out…

Given that Chrysler designed a shifter that made it unclear enough what position it was in that people ran themselves over regularly enough that we noticed it, I wouldn’t put something like that past them.

I’m inclined to agree, but they didn’t hardly sell any Forester XT’s. You’d think those would print money too.

Who needs revs when you’ve got torque?

Sure, but I miss the funky Subaru. I had a ‘97 Legacy Outback. Lots of weird funk there. Now I have a ‘13 Legacy sedan. From a ways off, it’s a Camry. It’s also the first Subaru I’ve had that I’m not head over heels in love with.

Generally, height+size+hatch. Not everything has cladding.

No, but I wouldn’t be against a Crosstrek with the WRX drivetrain. Would people buy it? They didn’t buy Forester XT’s, so probably not, but I dunno.

That makes me feel better.

I hope so. It would be a travesty if it were true. It would also be on brand for Subaru at this point.