And when I looked earlier this week....it comes with a manual.

The secret sauce to the crosstrek is a trifecta of affordability, versatility and capability.

We need to know that Victor’s vector.

Yup, factory lines shutting down and putting more people out of work is totally. Not a crisis. Fuck workers I guess. 

You do realize there are salespeople whose entire livelihoods are based on being able to sell those new cars?

It’s not a crisis or becoming a crisis.

And what happens when you need to fix that used car but the chip you need isn’t available?

It’s still not as gorgeous as the 66 Riviera though.

“The face is pure aesthetic. There is no inherent requirement from Honda to have to cosplay masculine toughness. But now they are.”

I’m not saying buy a Supra but I wouldn’t be seen in a C8 unless you put a gun to my head. It’s one ugly motherfucker.

If I had a $55,000 budget for a toy, it would be very tempting to splurge another $10,000 or so to get a C8 Corvette that will run circles around the Supra.

But only if they revert back to the last page format.  This new shit is a mess. 

‘Automatics are faster’...I don’t care, I don’t drive on a racetrack. ‘Automatics are better in traffic’...I live in NJ, we know traffic, and I still prefer a manual and I do get off the damned highway and take back roads when it’s bumper-to-bumper. ‘You just want to pretend you are a racing driver’...No, I just want…

I drove manuals in hours long traffic on the 405 in LA. It’s shitty, but it’s shitty in anything. It wasn’t enough to make me want to quit the clutch.

Ahem.

Shit my old manual 911 is probably 0-60 in the upper 6 second range and that’s still way more fun than the 5.1s my dual-clutch Audi will do it in.

Exactly. FCA customers don’t ask about manuals. The ones who would aren’t FCA customers anymore. This is why I went Subaru.

This is a good take.

VIVA LA TRANSMISSION!

The ‘standard’ transmission is no longer standard....