I've owned both... Can confirm, both crap. 

I think you meant “if you want a subaru without rattles, you buy a saabaru” :).

So, our audi and our vw came with “north American region” light restrictions.I disabled these for an off road test, and above 65mph,the headlights raise and illuminate much further. I also enabled high beam assist, which I tested on a 200 mile trip across dark back roads. It all works flawlessly, and the hba is…

I’ve had three subarus, a wrx, a forester xt, and a crosstrek. The wrx had the creakiest clutch in the world from firewall welds breaking loose, and it popped a cylinder ring at 55k miles. The forester xt rattled itself into warming up on any morning below 65 degrees, and then would rattle at stop lights (the entire…

‘merica!! 

I was so close to pulling a trigger on a veyron too, but you’ve convinced me a simple oil change is too much of a hassle on it. Oh well, I guess I’ll have to get some other hypercar now...

I guess so does Elon!

I thought money could fix stoopid? 

That’s what audi does with the virtual cockpit. The steering wheel controls can actually do almost everything you need inside the car. The downside to VC is that you can’t throw your google maps from the center screen into the VC, but that’s why for longer trips I just toss google maps or waze onto the center screen…

My sister has two recent range rovers, but not the velar. We threw out the velar as an option because I needed to be able to tow my car to/from track and race events; the velar’s towing capacity wasn’t really any better than a subaru crosstrek, and that’s just sad. Given Range Rover’s record as the most unreliable…

I disagree. My wife and I tested almost every single system across multiple manufacturers. Most of them were mediocre to awful, considering how many things they expect you to do via touchscreen. Tesla and Volvo were among the worst we played with. All of the econobox vehicles were significantly worse than their luxury…

On the dash under the windshield? Isn’t that illegal in most states? Plus it obstructs your view...

With the internet at our disposal, I have found haggling to be useless. I either email a dealer with the research I’ve done on the value of the vehicle I’m buying and tell them the price I want or walk in cellphone in hand with all relevant material saved in a bookmarks list. They have to make money too, otherwise…

Interesting, and it does make some sense. What I don’t understand is where you found a flight that’s half full? For the last 13 years, every flight I have been on (red-eyes too) has been crammed to the gills. The last one I was on, I got stuck between two larger people, who couldn’t help spilling out of their tiny…

I’ve seen used 3 and 5 series wagons 2009+ for under 15k, but usually they’re around 75k+ miles. However, my experience with BMW has been that insurance is usually much cheaper compared to more “economy” vehicles, so it may be possible to afford a bit more car. It takes a bit of deal hunting that’s for sure, but it…

Uh oh, hate to be the bad guy, but he said he goes trail running, not trail driving... In the spirit of that, why is everyone recommending trucks and giant SUV?

Because the horse and buggy is too high maintenance/cost and because you probably wouldn't buy a carbeurated v8 that gets 9mpg and starts only when it wants to for a daily driver... 

Agreed, but there has to be a point where the added aero is just drag creating inefficiency and excess weight. Less air means less downforce and drag, I get that. However, less air also means less power, but it does not effect mass. I would imagine with excessive aero, once you get past 7500 ft you’re fighting the…

I race cars as a hobby, and i’m pretty aware of why downforce is important, but my question is more aimed at excessive drag from downforce intended body parts. See this guy has part of his hood chopped up to have the engine poke through, and while i’m sure that giant wing on the back does a lot for anti-lift…

At what point does his drag from the aero start to takeaway from pace? The most efficient wings are 1 pound drag to 8 pounds downforce, but I can't imagine any of his aero is sitting that efficient. There's also the loss of air as you go higher, right? So at 10k ft he wouldn't be generating as much downforce or drag,…