This is unfortunate. Unfortunate, but not surprising.

Here’s my cat sleeping through qualifying on Saturday. I wish she shared Race Cat’s enthusiasm.

I’ve got friends and colleagues in the Midwest who think that the PNW is nothing but hipsters, coffee shops, craft beer, and knitted caps. I’m going to send this video to them as proof that we can redneck just as well as anyone else.

Yes, please.

I think it’s spectacular.

Excellent COTD. I’m a year shy of the author’s age, and I’ve owned a few more cars (12 at last count), but the advice is spot-on. I wish I’d spent more on driving school and less on cars that had limits beyond my abilities.

My thoughts exactly. What the fuck is going on there?

Agreed 100%. My wife drinks Diet Coke, I drink Coke Zero. If I run out, I can choke down a Diet Coke, but it tastes like bitter garbage. “Medicine” is actually a good comparison. Oddly enough, after decades of drinking Diet Coke, my wife can’t stand Coke Zero, because she thinks it’s too sweet. There is most certainly…

I dread the day that they start work on that long discussed widening of I5 in the Rose Quarter. I feel like the whole city is just going to have to close for business for the duration of that project.

I live just north of the Terwilliger curves. From the roof of my building, I can see I5 and the Ross Island Bridge, and every day I thank the stars that I work from home and don’t have to put up with that bullshit. My wife’s office is only an 8 mile drive from home, but she still takes the MAX because the +/- 1 hour…

I used to live in Chicago. Heated seats were a fucking godsend on a -15° January morning. I wouldn’t buy a car without them. If you don’t live in a cold climate, it probably seems pointless, but spend a winter somewhere cold and it’ll make complete sense.

Now that you mention it, I seem to recall the 4Runner Limited trim having a full-time 4WD system. My lowly SR5 had the part time system however... which I preferred quite honestly. I used to have a JGC with the Quadra-Drive or whatever Jeep called the full-time 4WD system they had at the time, and I wasn’t a fan.

I know it’s kind of silly, but I’ve always drawn a distinction between the two systems based on whether or not there is a center differential. I was actually not aware that the FJ had a different drive system based on transmission. I just assumed that they were all part-time 4WD (no center diff) like my 4Runner was.

Pedantry alert.

So the FIA decided to go with Ferrari’s solution?

The one we test drove was a 2017, so not one of the brand new ones. Subaru claims that the engine in the 2018 model is mostly new, but it makes the same amount of torque, and only like 4 more horsepower. It needs like another 30-40 horsepower, not 4.

GTI Sport with the DSG. Obviously not quite in the same ballpark as a Crosstrek, but the things it gives up to the Crosstrek (AWD, a bit more utility, ground clearance) are more than made up for in performance and refinement.

The wife and I decided to downsize to a single car about 8 months ago. We needed something fairly fuel efficient, small-ish, with an automatic transmission (wife can’t drive a manual), for under $30k. The Crosstrek was #1 on the list, until I drove one. It’s just too damn slow. If the Crosstrek was available with a…

My Altima is full of eels.

You should have brought them back for Alanis.