You got lucky. A whole lot of Element owners were replacing the rear brake pads every oil change, because Honda figured it didn’t matter that they got the brake balance completely backwards on most of them.

Sorry, but I got stuck driving one of these shit heaps for a year, and the only way you could be more wrong is if you declared the greatest SUV of all time was the Aztek.

So how much did you buy it for, and will it be ready for Moab?

Geez....that’s seriously messed up. I was trying to be light hearted about how weird Bjork is, but now I’m all sad and creeped out...

I think it’d be crazy to be Bjork even if she wasn’t famous...

So I had this Impreza. A modest 2006 2.5i sedan with a stick. At the time my ex was draining me of more pennies than I made, and through a bunch of shit I don’t feel like getting into but is worse than you’ll imagine had convinced me I needed to sell it to put granite counter tops in my house, so I could sell it and…

Correct me if I’m wrong but what you describe is 1st degree murder. Any incident of intentionally killing someone is murder, but planning it ahead of time (rather than it being a crime of passion, which this obviously was) is that extra step further into trouble. They’d still have him on a murder conviction with this,…

I love this car, especially with the VR6, but that price is insane, especially for someone who mis-uses “literally”. Drop it 3 grand, and it’d raise my eyebrow.

That’s true of almost any dub (the only exception I can think of offhand is Desert Punk), but Disney’s Ghibli dubs are among the best around.

As far as dubs go, the Disney ones are way better than the ones on my import box sets, and it’s due largely to the budget Disney can afford to throw at major actors and actresses.

So, if there’s some level of disinterest or some rift between you and your wife (let’s be honest, nobody just randomly decides, “hey y’know, my wife is great and all, but y’know what’d be even better? Fucking other people!” - and most sociopaths are intelligent enough to not marry if they know they want to play the…

Awww c’mon, that’s half the fun!

If the way you’re driving is going to send you into a ditch, snows aren’t going to do that much more to save you than all seasons. Maybe you should’ve bought a 2.5i...

My only complaint about the 6 cylinder Outback, is that it’s only available with an automatic.

What all seasons did you have that were scary? Before I cared about tires, I had Eagle GTs on my first Subaru (a bugeye Impreza RS), and they were really nice. My second had Continental DWS’s and they were so grippy I actually got pissed trying to do donuts sometimes!

Aaah Kinja...can’t go back and edit. I’ll take the Subaru on all seasons over FWD on snows any day...

I find that most (if not all) people that say “Nobody needs AWD” have never driven with AWD in a low traction situation, and actually had the AWD kick in (or haven’t driven a full-time AWD system in low traction). I’ve driven FWD most of my life, with a few winter stints in RWD, and a couple AWD Subarus (both of which…

From what other commenters said a couple years ago when this article is from, it was at least in part something the UAW pushed for.

I was shopping based on driving dynamics not build quality, obviously... :)

What’s your cutoff for “regular salary”? The base model MSRP for the Corvette is $55,495. That’s “middle management” affordable (which is, unsurprisingly, the target demographic for the Corvette), but well beyond what a “regular” employee will be able to afford, new.