EJ head gaskets were mostly fixed after 2010 when they went to MLS gaskets. By 2015, the EJ was retired except the version in the STI, which didn’t have head gasket issues.

The cupholders are between the center console bin and the shifter console. You just can’t see them from that angle. They show up in a couple of pictures I found on the Toyota website. There’s some kind of space behind the center armrest as well. Not sure if it’s meant to be a cupholder or just a crap-catcher.

Why do they give you an 8000RPM tach if the engine only revs to 5500? A whole third of the range is wasted.

They “offer it,” but given how I’ve had Toyota’s allocation system works, unless you pick a configuration that Toyota was going to make anyway, you’re not going to get some of these configurations.

I worked at gas stations for a decade myself. You bring up a couple things: it’s normal for there to be some water in the fuel tanks and that it’s monitored. The places I worked at had automated monitors that reported both the fuel levels and the water levels in the tanks. This was back in the 90's and early ‘00's and…

When you say “elevated,” do you mean “above the ground?”

If he wants the Cybertruck to outsell the Silverado, either:

I had an A4 Avant quattro of that vintage. It was an absolute bitch to keep working; a paragon of “the Germans always come up with complicated and expensive solutions to problems everybody else solved better for cheaper.”

Well, that’s a shame. Seems par for the course with Japanese paint as of the last decade or so.

Holy shit! Four transmissions in 50k? Subaru CVT’s aren’t know for being particularly durable, but they’re not that bad! We’ll probably never know what went wrong here, but there must be some common denominator here that was not the transmission itself. Something was actively killing them.

I’m sure it’ll be both cheap and easy to get replacement wipers for that thing 

Sure, but you’re in a very small minority. If I had to guess, I’d say probably 90%+ of people who think they need AWD benefit very little from it in real life compared to owning a set of snow tires. In fact, most of them probably actually lose by a fair bit when you compare upkeep costs for the more complex…

I think they call it “racing” because people don’t know what to call “competition with cars” besides that. It’s especially silly considering that there’s even real world parallels, like drifting being to racing like figure skating is to speed skating.

The lack of an AWD hybrid really confuses me. I’m sure there’s a good reason for it, but the fact that they’d sell the things by the shedload like that and make money hand over fist should be a hell of a motivator. Despite that you definitely don’t need AWD when snow tires exist, people get positively erect for AWD.

You say that Toyota will build you a reliable truck and then stand behind it, but then you have to remember how they handled the whole rusting frame debacle. They didn’t stand behind it so much as they were forced to. It’s probably not an issue, but some of us have long memories.

NY didn’t require official bills of sale last I checked. In fact, most of the bills of sale I have are just hand written notes. One I bought 15yrs ago (and still have) was handwritten on a sheet of notebook paper and has a spelling mistake. At the time, a bill of sale wasn’t even required unless you purchased the car…

They did go on record to say that they’ve decided they’ve tied up the arc with those characters and that their story is done from the perspective of them being primarily involved. As I’m to understand it, though, there’s no shortage of source material and other stories involving other characters to work from.

I agree. I finished it simply because it wasn’t bad enough to rage quit. It didn’t exactly keep my enthralled. They went in some really strange directions with some of the characters in what feels like an attempt just to make it edgy. It didn’t work.

Let this be a reminder that “rare” does not necessarily equal “good” or “desirable.”

By “dense,” I mean in the mental sense. They tend to behave in ways that are counterintuitive and just feel plain stupid. For instance, my 5EAT in my Legacy does this thing when after accelerating gently after braking down for a corner and turning, it’ll shift normally through to fourth, where it’ll lock the torque…