Yep. I’ve been resisting the Outback because I keep holding out hope that there’s some unique, interesting, and uncommon performance oriented wagon out there. That comes in an interesting color, even. Maybe as a PHEV or even ICE w/ a stick shift. There isn’t. At least nothing available and reasonably priced.

I don’t recall saying that over the top exhaust noise was cool, either.

Agreed. The 3 tries too hard to be cool. Just like Tesla’s owner.

That’s true, but the Element was also an incredibly useful and unique vehicle that, upon cancellation, wasn’t replaced by anything even remotely similar. From Honda, or from anyone else.  

I have to think that the vast majority of these are being bought by millionaires with a sense of humor for their irresponsible children who are ‘demanding’ something like an Aston Martin as a first car. And frankly, that’s just what I’d do, too.

This certainly conforms to my experience recently. We’re looking for a new car and the lots are largely barren - except for dedicated EVs from some companies. We could have jumped into a Solterra, BZ4X, Mach-E, e-Mini, etc. immediately - just completed the sale and driven it off the lot... and in any number of…

We see a few on the road up in BC as well. But there are just none available.  2025 was for the Prime (which, honestly, is the way to go).  But even the regular Prius was still a 1+ year long wait. 

While it’s a ‘jacked up wagon’, the Outback is still going strong. And with the XT option now available, a pretty well rounded option.

I would like have liked one too. And we were looking for a car just recently. Didn’t get one - but it would have been a good option... if the Toyota dealer could have brought one in for me before 2025.

How did that work again? Surely they didn’t maintain some legal interest in the car that made it impossible to transfer title without their permission. So I’m assuming it was basically a ‘please ask us first if you want to be able to keep buying our best cars’. Which is fair - but I think the main point is that the…

This isn’t right.  If anything it’s underrated by the population at large.  Lumped in with every other chop-top economy car convertible that came out of the late 80s, 90s and 2000s (sunfire convertibles, etc.)

It’s a great car.  But, we’re looking for a new car right now, and it’s impossible to find.  And if you want to get the PHEV version (which is just about the perfect car for us) - it’s WAY more expensive.  Prohibitively more expensive - and I don’t know why - given that the S60 PHEV is reasonably priced versus the…

It’s been a while, and while I’d have to reread the article, I’m not sure my overall opinion would change based on that.

I’m going with the Dodge Durango Hellcat.

No one actually thought the MTA was actually transphobic because of this, right? I mean... there wasn’t outcry. Right? Please tell me there wasn’t outcry.  Because that would incredibly absurd.

I’m in the same boat. I don’t know - I think it’s something about the styling, combined with the swatch of interior displays and then the price that has me shrugging in a bit of indifference.

Nahhh - that doesn’t fly. The thing is just ugly. I think most of us - author included - are perfectly willing to call a beautiful object beautiful even if we couldn’t afford it. And to acknowledge that if we could buy it, we probably would.

It’s still propeller driven. Lame.

Oh but there is - and they are absolutely very well attuned to finding and consuming anything that can actually make it’s way through the water column all the way to the sea floor. There are basically only two sources of energy that deep - deep sea smokers and falling debris. But scavengers very much survive and in…

At a certain point I think you just have to stop looking at Ferrari as being a car company and start looking at them as being an entertainment company. They design and build things that a whole lot of people look at, think about, and watch drive online - but the chances of them actually experiencing one in reality are…