I rarely feel like I need more than the 175HP I have in my 2018 Subaru Legacy. Most modern cars have no problem getting out of their own way. Would I love a 500+HP German wagon? Sure, but that isn’t economical for me currently, and it really isn’t necessary.

The only new-ish [to me] tech I’ve found useful in my current 2018 car consists of CarPlay, blind spot indicator, and rear cross-traffic alert.  Everything else it has existed since the 90s.  Having driven newer cars with automatic emergency braking, lane departure prevention, and even adaptive cruise control, I found…

This is the kind of application that makes a lot of sense for machine learning (it isn’t AI).  If we focused on using ML for things like this, it can solve a lot of problems, or at least improve things.  Spending trillions to develop a general AI that tends to go insane when dealing with humans is so stupid.

1. Dearth of EVs that come without excess tech. I want to drive a car, not a spaceship. (I guess this makes me old). Just because the powertrain is different doesn’t mean the car needs to be so overly complicated. This also applies to many recent ICE cars, but at least there are options out there for people who don’t…

Not that Rivian was on my list of cars to buy, but I don’t see myself ever buying a new car that doesn’t have both CarPlay and Android Auto.

As someone who owned a Samurai for 7 years or so, it wasn’t nearly as unsafe as advertised.  I bet a lot of people in flood-prone areas would love a low-cost vehicle with the high ground clearance.  For that matter, my Samurai got flooded on more than one occasion.  I just pulled the drain plugs in the floor to let…

I loved driving my BRZ, but my lower back problems eventually made it too painful an experience to get in and out and drive over the poorly maintained roads where I live. I came to terms with my ageing body and traded it in for a Subaru Legacy, one of the most comfortable cars on the market at the time. I still miss…

My question is whether the Ford can go into a car wash without being put into a special mode.

I test drove a brand new 1990 Chevy Beretta.  The interior door handle fell off when I was finished.  Had to roll down the window and open from outside.  The whole thing felt like it was thrown together in a about 10 minutes.  Nothing seemed fully screwed down.

Here is some more math for you. If I switch from a car that gets 10mpg to one that gets 15mpg, I spend 1/3 less on fuel. If I move from a car that gets 25mpg to one that gets 50mpg, I spend half as much. I realize fractions are hard, but 1/2 is more than 1/3, so I think MPG actually tells us something important. Also,…

More like Full Self-Dying.

The dude is unhinged.  His board needs to put him down.

Welp, I was already thinking I’d replace my 2018 Legacy with a Camry or Accord Hybrid if I needed to, so I guess I’m not the only one to have moved on.

The chargers where I work are labeled “non-copper”. Not sure if it is just a label or if they are using some other conductor instead.

“enhanced styling” is a serious misstatement. WTF with that D-pillar design, and the front end looks like a discarded Ford Escape idea. Subies are never really known for their aesthetics, but geez.

Based on my parents in their 80s and their slow driving friends in upstate NY, the answer is Subaru Foresters and Outbacks. Where I live in NC, the retirees in my immediate vicinity drive recent CR-V, Passat, Chevy Spark, and Prius.

TIL: Sigourney Weaver was in Ghostbusters II.

FD Miata? IIRC, the M Edition was NA only.  There was an FD RX-7.

The most I paid, and my favorite, was $666.66/month on a 2-year 0% interest loan to buy a 2012 Prius.  Sadly, the car was possessed (not repossessed) and tried to kill me.  It liked to turn off randomly.  Toyota eventually released a software patch for it, but I got rid of it in favor of a 2017 BRZ before that.

1st gear: So gas-powered cars are going to get a lot more expensive?