You haven't been able to do that on a car for many years already. Regardless I am in no way saying that you shouldn't love that, it just means that you are already and will even more so in the future be part of the "old school" part of the car hobby. That area is already a huge part of the hobby and is definitely not…

What really is "good for the hobby"?

I think you're at least partially right about the future and that it won't be quite as simple as many are suggesting. Mechanical knowledge will not suffice, although it will never become unnecessary. When you want to drop that hot ford electric motor you found at the junkyard into an old chevy body you might have to…

some companies are very good at doing this, I'm not saying that it is impossible, just that it is a challenge and many companies screw it up

Everyone knows if you want to impress women you don't get a car, you get a motorcycle.... jeeze

it's the classic question of how to share platforms economically and maintain distinct brand images.

you should keep going to school. once you get past 101 at some point they'll tell you the truth, water is not incompressible.

I was briefly in one at the Chicago auto show and I didn't notice, I'll keep an eye on that next time I'm in one. It is worth saying that the car I drive normally rather low and could probably be said to have that problem, so maybe I've gotten used to it.

yeah, but after sitting in a BRZ they really are hopelessly impractical (so small, useless back seat) also a lot of dealers want to sell the fancy 28k version, which is WRX territory and makes no sense.

Thanks for the tip!

Well, you've got 2 years on me then ha ha.

Ha ha fair enough, I was just making an excuse for my perhaps unfounded general distaste for the hatched body style.

I would call that a great deal. To me anything under MSRP for what I want will make me happy.

I don't think I'm old enough to appreciate wagons yet. The legacy is a good looking car though, wish they hadn't dropped the MT.

I know, I always half laugh at the prices people want used for them. I really don't want a used one because I know what people do to these them. I'd be happy with MSRP on a WR blue new base model one. Time to start scouring the Midwest...

so, how long do you think it will be before it will be possible to get a decent deal on a 2015 wrx ? My old hooptie is dying a rusty death and that's what I want to move to, fingers crossed for before next winter...

I grew up on a farm in central Illinois, where we grew (they still grow) corn and soy beans, so know that when I talk about farming I'm not just blowing smoke up your ass.

yes, this. The problem with celulossic ethanol is there is no infrastructure for the inputs. which is to say you cannot buy harvested alge or plant residue on the CME like you can with corn (or other grains for that matter). What that means is that if you want to make the stuff you have to go and harvest it yourself…

The problem is that we have to transend Newtonian physics (F=ma). There are people working on this at the moment it just really isn't ready for any real world applications. We need to learn to understand something that to this point no one does and we're not even sure we have observed it yet although since we don't…