A lot of the roads in Michigan end up being prototypes for how things will be done later, in other places. Ford is no stranger to this practice, as a huge number of “hmmm...will this work?” sort of roadway design exercises litter the city of Dearborn, all around the Ford campus. Someone’s got to figure out if this…

Was Road Blasters the one that was a driving game, but ALSO had a light gun?

I’m so glad someone got the reference!

Wow...Where does the Jalopnik staff get their weed?

Am I missing something? That video clip of Biden and Barra is specifically about being a photo op for GM investing a bunch of money on EVs. Has Tesla considered inviting the President over, for a similar op?

If Jeff Bezos has the money it takes to have this boat built, he has the money it takes to have the masts pulled and remounted, so it can get past a bridge. The fact that a rich playboy can make demands, and have governments roll over, is just kind of sad.

Yeah this is a province of Canada that so deeply fetishizes parts of American oil culture, that plenty of them who have never been to the US, or met people from the US, affect a Texas accent - just to be more redneck. Most of the Canadians I know shake their heads harder at this sect of Canadian culture, than they do…

Someone on Reddit just finished an STI swap into their Crosstrek:

The crackiest of pipes.

I’d kinda rather do the Frankenmotor build, with heads TWE has done their magic to, some Delta cams, and EL headers, just to see how high the HP can be bumped without a turbo. I’m a bit weird, though...

My last 2 Imprezas (a bug eye RS and a hawk eye 2.5i) were 155hp and 145hp respectively, and they both managed fine with that amount of power. The Crosstrek is notably heavier than the heaviest GD Imprezas, even at their heaviest. 180 would be a much better amount of power, at least with the 5 speed. Maybe the closer…

Late fall has historically been my favorite season, but after this year, snow is just obviously too important to me for it not to be winter from now on...

99% of people in the US would think me crazy for saying it, but I’m jealous of your snow.

Ah, I see the problem. You misread that memo. All year long in California is a dry, hot, fire, and pilot season.

Sadly, unless I move up to Crestline and have even less to do than I do in Riverside, this is the only place in California I can afford to live. I close on a house in Oak Park (not gonna be part of the gentrification problem south of 8 mile) on Friday, so I’ll be back in Michigan by early March.

Mine’s a 2017 Premium with a 5 speed. You are correct. You basically have to beat it like a rented mule to get any sort of quickness out of it.

Fuck the CVT. I bought mine with a 5 speed stick. Still slow as heck. I was losing speed going over the Vail pass last winter, in 3rd gear. You’ve really got to keep the RPM up above 3500 to have any sort of jump, in any gear.

Yeah, the problem is so many people have scavenged them for those applications, and Frankenmotor builds, that there aren’t many left to snag the heads from!

Which I’m grateful for, but I’d still rather have the horsepower, and do a weekend’s worth of fiddling in my driveway to put them into an EJ25 one time.

No, I’m definitely thinking of the EJ22 heads on an EJ25. It was a popular thing on rs25.com and NASIOC for a hot minute. Do a search for “Frankenmotor” in any online Subaru community that’s been around a while, and you’ll find the swap I mentioned. It gets higher compression, and displacement out of the EJ25.