Hurlabrick

Aaaarrgghhhhh! What's the car after that, a Subaru Impreza??!

DandNHill

They haven't invented it yet...

Partially discharged

When you get a Subaru Impreza the licence plate will turn green.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cul...ar-of-vermont/

Partially discharged

My B-I-L who sells cars for a living (domestic cars only) doesn't understand my desire to have a stick. I've only had a stick as my primary car for the last 25 years but they are getting harder and harder to find and the options are limited.

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https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8602500864/h1FFA83AA/

Pizzawheel

Excellent. You may now buy me pints again!

Focus on the Saphic, and less on the driving, and you'll be fine.

My current vehicle has the same engine but auto tranny as my last. As it's newer its rated at 30hp more, but is also a few hundred pounds heavier. And to drive, there's no comparison, current auto drive is quick but the old one was beautifully violent. Of course, nine times out of ten quick is more than enough.

Piff Poff

I for my primary car have always had stick apart from the short spells where I was driving either a Navigator or Expedition, since I passed my test at 18. I grumble about having something BIG to drive and I find driving auto boring. The explorer I have been driving until recently is a very agricultural standard shift, makes the 19 year old TT feel very smooth. Not sure what my winter vehicle will be the Explorer didn't like sustained - 20+ temps and the stick would not go into 1st and did not particularly like 2nd but it's a bit of a struggle getting going in 3rd lol. The TT I think will struggle with the ride height once we have had too much snow, which leaves the Range Rover with tempermental heating issues and of course automatic transmission.

New cars are all very samey at the moment, you have to as has been mentioned real the label to see what they actually are and there are very few interesting colours out there too. Fords line up is fairly appalling, which is a shame as that's where we would get a decent discount with employee pricing, but there is nothing that makes me go Hmm!

dbd33

Mustang. Fun, cheap, comes in attractive blues and reds.

Piff Poff

they don't handle in the snow, it's to icy here with the snow ridges. Also OH who is a Mustang and general Ford guy does not like the newer mustangs at all. He has been most disappointed with the newer offerings.

dbd33

Ahem. I've commuted in one for the last several winters. They are fabulous in the snow; slide at will, go sideways everywhere but without that scary lack of traction and control one has in a pick up.

Piff Poff

there has been times OH has come home with tales of how they couldn't even work on a Mustang as they couldn't even get it inside as the wheels were just spinning. I'm not willing to not be able to move off at junctions in a light sequence because the wheels are just spinning, something you see quite often here with rear wheel drive cars. We don't need another summer vehicle.

dbd33

Some sort of a problem with the left foot in that case.

Piff Poff

I think it highlights the differences of winter driving in different provinces. Sometimes even with studded tyres you get a spin. Mustangs drop in value over the winter. No one chooses a Mustang at the dealers when it's 40 below and icy.

Tumbling_Dice

Seems to me that the majoriety of drivers are dodgy irrespective of vehicle. I felt safer driving in Sicily or Naples to this place.

dave_j

Had a mustang convertible. Drove like a barge. No grip in winter.
Owner before me drove with a paving stone in the boot in winter.
Flexed badly over things like rail crossings and drank petrol.
Nice on sunny warm days with top down.
As an aside and a comment on the competence of mechanics here.
When I traded it in, the mechanic took it for a drive and complained that the top wouldn't power up, asked what was wrong with it. This experienced mechanic didn't understand that these common cars have a powered top interlocked with the handbrake to make sure it couldn't be raised when moving. Shook my head.

dbd33

You just have to put winter tyres on it and be gentle with the clutch. The one problem I found with it, unique to the car, was ground clearance. If I didn't blow the driveway I'd get stuck, Once on pavement it was fine, way better than a truck and you see lots of trucks being driven in winter, typically on summer rubber. It'd be nice if they had the convention of dimming headlamps here though, it's really noticeable that high beams are on when you're driving something low to the ground.