My mornings westbound on 394 makes me beg do differ.

My father-in-law had a early eighties Chevy Blazer when my wife was in high-school. When her VW Bug was not running for one reason or another, she drove it. One fall night, she came home and parked it on the driveway, went into the house and went to bed.

Chasing someone down the street in the underwear brings back a funny memory. Summer of 2006, a storm knocked out power overnight and we left the windows open to keep cool. I woke up and was listening to the birds when I heard something break outside. I thought a tree branch snapped off.

That sounds like my coworker two summers ago.

Amen on the black plastic!

Interesting. Driving highway only on our ‘14 Forester XT will get 30-31 MPG, above the published numbers, but city driving is a whole different thing. Usually 20 MPG is average around town.

I’ve got my mother-in-law’s 1937 Chevy 2-door coupe sitting in the garage with a blown engine. My father-in-law passed away, and do not have the time or money or experience to fix it, and I fear it will rot away before she decides to do anything about it.

^^^ Exactly this!

Ha! You sound like our ground delivery guy at work. He was sitting in bumper to bumper traffic last summer and looked over at the driver next to him. She was on her tablet on Craigslist.

I’ve seen the DOT drivers going round and round on the track and wondered what they were testing.

A friend in high school had a ‘71 Super Beetle. Her dad replaced the battery under the back seat, but did not put the battery cover back on it. My friend put something in the back, kneeling over the battery and causing it to arc to the springs, and set the seat and car on fire. Torched the whole damn thing.

The auto transmission on my ‘02 Forester was only 4 gears, rock solid, and totally uninspired. The new CVT makes me go meh too, but the mileage is better and the Sport mode at least feels better when I remember to use it.

Exactly! Our 2014 Forester XT is the easiest damn car to do an oil change on (or any regular maintenance). Tall enough that I don’t need ramps to get under it. Nice little cutout on the rock shield, so you can get at the plug to drain the oil. Filter on the top with a tray to catch drips.

Oh God, you sound like my wife.

I drove my coworkers Legacy, and it felt beige like the Passat. The Forester 2.5i is 170 pounds less, and is not different in ride or power in my experience.

“...they just felt old.”

The craziest thing I saw was no one stopping when I was t-boned last spring. Guy late for work turned left against a red arrow, as I entered the intersection, crushed my wagon right on the driver’s door and pillar. Knocked my car 180 degrees, the side airbag knocked me in the head and for a loop, and not one person…

Sitting on a bus in St. Paul in college, I saw an elderly gentleman in the crosswalk knocked across an intersection by someone turning left and trying to beat the yellow. Patrons at the St. Clair Broiler poured out to help him, and it was the most horrifying thing to see.