Oh yeah. Two blocks away, an oak I'd guess was about forty feet tall was ripped out of the ground and fell across the street and onto a poor Subaru. Aside from that, there were a lot of limbs ripped off the trees all the way up and down State Street. Kinda looked like a scene in <ahref="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113497/">Jumanji.
>> ^ant

Any damages in your area?

More info on the Stinger. Looks like Pontiac was ahead of their time on this one. Looks like a prototype of the Subaru Outback, which didn't come out until 1995.

*80s *engineering

Song is System Of A Down - Lost In Hollywood, from their album Mezmerize.
Car is 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX STi.

>> ^StukaFox:
So I live on this really steep hill in Seattle. Last year, the hill became a sheet of ice after a week's worth of snow compacted. And I said this phrase easily a dozen times to people attempting to drive down the hill:
"Don't go down the hill, it's all ice."
And the various responses I got were:
"Fuck you!", "I got four wheel drive!", "Stop telling people what to do!", "I have a Subaru!", "Fuck you!"
All of which were usually followed by:
"... stupid asshole telling what to do I can drive on ice OHFUCK!" -- WHACK!
Moral: lulz, schadenfreude!


I told a guy (not you, not Seattle) "thanks, I'll be alright". Then I went over the crest, down the ice-covered street, past the dozen or so crashed cars, stopped at the bottom, signaled, made a left onto a busy street.

I had studded tires on my truck.

So I live on this really steep hill in Seattle. Last year, the hill became a sheet of ice after a week's worth of snow compacted. And I said this phrase easily a dozen times to people attempting to drive down the hill:

"Don't go down the hill, it's all ice."

And the various responses I got were:

"Fuck you!", "I got four wheel drive!", "Stop telling people what to do!", "I have a Subaru!", "Fuck you!"

All of which were usually followed by:

"... stupid asshole telling what to do I can drive on ice OHFUCK!" -- WHACK!

Moral: lulz, schadenfreude!

Poor Subaru tranny...

>> ^BoneyD:
That's Impreziv-- sorry, no... SORRY! Won't do that again.


Well, I, for one, am imprezzed.

I like how the Subaru Quasar looks like a monster from an Atari game.

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by jonny.

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this model subaru has about 2 camelpower

And with that Subaru pulled out, and Rallying died.

>> ^BillOreilly:
I guess noone out there has ever heard of a thing called "snow tires"

We got em. My coworker drives a Subaru WRX STi. He's got a set of Bridgestone Blizzaks on it. Last night, as he was driving home… well, I'll just copy and paste his words:

Dave S: portland wasn't too bad last night. but right about the time I crossed cornelius pass road, it all turned to ice. by the time I got home, it was a solid sheet -- I did a test on the road in front of my house, and it took 10 seconds of ABS to stop from 25 mph. and this is with blizzaks, even. it'll be even better when the freezing rain starts up later.

>> ^HollywoodBob:
>> ^GreatBird:
And I bet you can't buy any of the in the States. Why is that?

Nope. They're all diesels, and there's very few diesels available in the US, fewer and fewer each year. But even the diesels that are available don't get near the 53-80 mpg of these 3 cars. The best mileage light diesel of the last 5 years was the VW New Beetle and it only got 42 MPG, and it was discontinued 2 years ago.

Ford and GM did have a diesel car back in the 70's which got pretty good mileage even by today's standards. Now only VW and Mercedes sell diesel cars in the US. The 2-door VW Golf TDI was the milage king, followed by the Jetta TDI and then the Beetle TDI, and the Beetle does way better than 42 MPG.

VW didn't put offer a diesel in the US from 2007 until late 2008 because the new emissions required ULSD fuel, which wasn't widely available. The 2009 model year has two diesels, the Jetta and Jetta Wagon, soon to be followed by other models. I've heard that Honda and Subaru are bringing diesels over here in the US in 2010.

The EPA had to change the way it did it's mileage testing because the numbers they published for hypbrids were nearly impossible to achieve in real world driving. The new way they do their testing is more accurate for hypbrids and gas engines but it way underestimates diesels, and even the EPA has admitted it doesn't accurately reflect real world diesel mileage.

The new Jetta and Jetta Wagon with the 2L TDI has an EPA rating of 30/41, but every car magazine that has reviewed it has gotten nearly 60 MPG highway with it.

I drive a 2005 Jetta Wagon TDI (1.9L). The EPA sticker for it said 32/43, which was under the old test method, the new test rates it at 28/32. I actually get better than what the original sticker had. I average 42MPG each tank, and can go over 700 miles between fillups. I've done 52MPG on the highway, and city driving I get 36-38 MPG. I've been keeping track of my mileage and my worst tank was 32.8MPG, and mine is an automatic. The same car with a manual gets almost 10 MPG more than the auto.

In reply to this comment by CrushBug:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Epic-Subaru-Impreza-fan-video-done-by-Format67

The embedding is all screwy. If you can fix it up, I will happily upvote it.

Fixed, used youtube but posted link to vimeo.
Thanks