I’ve been in rainstorms that are so heavy that you can’t see some tailights. The flashers definitely make it easier to see the cars.

There was a guy at my work who(m?) I would watch park every day. He would pull up so that his bumper was just even with the side of the car that parked before him, stop, cut the wheel to the lock, and very slowly pull in, just barely missing the back corner of the other car. Then he would continue pulling in until his…

I’ve never seen a car look better in yellow than it would in any other basic color.

They won’t handle the same if you are pushing them, but there is no reason that a minivan will not perform day to day driving much different than a sedan. But even still, they have a better weight distribution than an SUV. The main problems you have in snow are accelerating and braking, both of which are solved with…

I said vast majority, which I would wager a large portion of money is over 99% of the people who buy SUV/CUVs. Seriously, go to work and take a poll of SUV/CUV owners that take their cars off road and report back, that is unless you work at some off road related place ;)

I just want a Legacy GT wagon with a rear facing pop-up 3rd row. Is that so much to ask?

Tires are more important than anything else. Minivan owners are simply the type of person to put the cheapest tires they can on. This makes them bad in the snow. There is no reason that a FWD minivan would be any worse than any other FWD sedan, given comparable tires and people have been driving in the snow for over…

From my experience observing the people who drive the 2.5GTs and 2.5XTs, it seems that they were purchased by people who went in wanting the highest package, not really that they wanted the performance model. Most of the ones that I see are owned by middle aged women and, while I am probably a “sexist” for saying…

This is true, although I really do want my ratty old 2000 Legacy wagon back, in all its cheap simplicity. Hey, it had power windows!

I thought so, too, until people started buying the Jeep Cherokee and the new Prius

Joke’s on you. It will be a giant flat 8!

BUT (almost) NOBODY NEEDS MORE GROUND CLEARANCE! I am so sick of hearing people say that they need AWD and ground clearance. I’ve lived in the Ohio snowbelt for my whole life and guess how many times my fairly low FWD sedans have been stuck. Hint: the answer is once, due to my own stupidity. The VAST majority of…

Cake? Because you baked it?

The thing that I don’t understand is that LEDs are not a new technology, they are just being utilized more than they had in the past. To the best of my knowledge, they are actually the cheapest to produce, yet we pay a premium for them in every product. If someone knows otherwise, please inform me.

AWD is safer because it stands for all wheel BRAKING, which normal cars don’t have.

Since we are “going to” automated cars

Uhhh, yeah off-roading. A parking lot is off of the road!

COTD

You would have to buy a lot of gold to mask $2.5m worth

I would like to agree with you that you shouldn’t get in trouble for “sleeping it off”, but I think there is a pretty big problem in the fact that, when coming down from being drunk, many people think that they are sober much sooner than they really are. I have (stupid) friends who think they are capable of sobering…