The Crosstrek is going to have a fair bit more room than the Golf. My father purchased a dieselgate ‘13 Golf TDI and I can say my ‘17 Impreza has quite a bit more rear legroom as well as headroom. I’d rather load child seats in the Crosstrek over the Golf - does it have enough space? I’m not sure, but it’s definitely…

I think this is a great suggestion, the crew cab models are plentiful and while they aren’t the most fuel efficient, the 4.0 V6 is a very sturdy motor and reliable. Frontiers are cheap as hell too!

Hopefully “open to feedback” means “we’re still trying to sell this combo to the dummies in charge who have killed everything remotely cool we’ve ever made.”

Unlimited power!!!

Only 32 MPG? Yikes. I have an AWD NA car that gets the same on pure highway drives. Problem is you still hit boost on pretty much any slight uphill and that just tanks the economy. Talking 16-18 MPG instantaneous.

The incremental fuel savings aren’t for you, they’re for the EPA.  Same with warmup times, startup enrichment, etc. GM doesn’t care about your $1000 fuel savings, that’s the marketing line to justify the tech.

The current Dodge Charger with its itty bitty ducktail spoiler makes almost the same amount of downforce/drag as a 1970 Daytona with the big wing. Aerodynamics have come a long way, Subaru didn’t just thrown on a Pepboys wing and call it a day. I doubt we’ll ever see one in a wind tunnel, but I guarantee the downforce…

Wow, wings only work over 170 mph? Amazing. I’m sure Subaru’s engineers will be dumbfounded to learn this information from endosymbiont here in the Jalopnik comments. They’ve wasted all this time and energy for nothing.

Yeah, even if a ball joint fails you still have the strut and tie rod locating the upright/spindle, at least to some degree. Normally when I think of a wheel falling off it’s sheared lug studs or a bearing so bad the hub tries to escape.

You cannot measure horsepower, it’s work. You measure torque and calculate horsepower off of that number.

Stage rally cars are. NASA Rally Sport, Rally America and the now-defunct SCCA ProRally. The rally stages are all public roads (usually in a state forest, or logging roads, etc) and to get from stage to stage or stage to service you do what is called “transit” which is just driving on normal streets to get from place…

Yep, the suspension is modded for the insane amount of steering angle they need to be 60° sideways at 120+ mph. So to get the steering grip you want you have to crank the static camber wayyy negative so that under race conditions your alignment is where you want it.

Neutral: I am changing the alternator (and subsequently upper intake gaskets) on my sister’s Escape and hitting up ETR SCCA rallycross at Frazier Motorsports Park on Saturday. Scallywagon ho!

I have done a manual swap. Unless you really love the car, there is no point. A $4500 160hp Lancer wagon...not on my short list

$957 for 15 hp, to be exact. Maybe 10 ft lbs...maybe.

CP for sure. That thing has $957 worth of “performance upgrades” that all together total roughly 15 hp. On an automatic Mitsu. Noooo thank you

And with the unlimited warranty, who cares how long they last haha. Lifetime brakes for $20 and some elbow grease!

My Subarus have had crazy long pad life. I changed the OEM front pads on my first car at 170k. Checked the rear shoes at about 185k and they still had 1/3 life left (on original Denso shoes).

“Even if you meant buying 3 Crown Vics in series... Cost of running one alone make your conclusion suspect; read the article—nothing more than electricity for charging (which is cheaper than paying for fuel at the pump), power units replaced free of charge with little down time, brake pads, ball joints and wheel…

Oh yes. If you can’t find a made-to-spec replacement you can also have a shop make them out of sheet metal and weld in a replacement. Or, you could be like my dad and use a stop sign (60's stang in the 80's)