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Vehicle sales have similar weirdness. There are some legal/regulatory terms of what constitutes a "light truck" versus a "car" and so on. Not to mention that the term "station wagon" became a death sentence for a vehicle. So you end up with a PT Cruiser being a truck for fuel efficiency standards but as a car for others. Subaru markets their Outback as a SUV, but it's really a wagon, or as they call it, a Crossover/SUV, and it's also a "truck", but never, ever a "wagon" ... which calls up memories of giant domestic precursors of minivans that stylish people want to avoid.

Nowadays you have the laptops, convertible laptops, tablets designed to replace your laptop, tablets that are nearly laptops, etc. There's some really nice thinking going on out there in the laptop space. My wife went from a traditional laptop to a HP Spectre and is really enjoying the convertible aspect of the thing and the touch screen. Sure she doesn't use the touch screen much in laptop mode, but when she's watching videos she uses it all the time.

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Way to aim low GM. Honda will have self powered cars by then.

Subaru's plant in Indiana has been Zero Landfill for sometime.

Hmmm. I think that systems like the Subaru Eyesight system would have had no problem preventing ta crash like this.
http://drive.subaru.com/win14-...

They are behind and trying to catchup. Subaru already has the jump on them with Eyesight technology

I've used it, it works, and has saved me from a collision with a lead car making a false start in a merge, made a 1000 mile road trip a breeze with adaptive cruise that will even bring you to a stop in heavy traffic , and once alerted me about lane departure while nodding off behind the wheel when i was really tired. It has taken awhile to adjust that the car technology is shadowing my decisions and ready to act, but now I'm use it to and wouldn't buy a car without it. This is the thin end of the self driving car wedge.

cleaner (in all senses)

Some PZEV ICE's have emissions that are cleaner than the outside air. A modern electric scores a lot of points against an 80's k car but the quality of an ICE is a moving target.

If past technological jumps can serve as a guide, the big switch to electric will occur, if at all, not because the new technology beats the old technology in things that the old technology is working on as well, because new technologies almost never can catch up to the benefits of an old technolody. But rather, it will occur when the new technology does something that the old technology doesn't do at all, not even poorly. I'm not sure what that is yet, but if electric car advocates are waiting for electric vehicles to catch up and surpass ICE, they might have a long wait

in my cars.

There are two cars I want right now (well, one is being released soon).

1. The Elio for getting to work and back. Perfect for getting me and my backpack the 30ish miles there and back, and even good for going to lunch with a coworker. Excellent fuel mileage, and unlike a Smart Car (which doesn't really get that great of fuel mileage considering) I wouldn't be concerned about having to defend my manhood every time I stepped out of it or worry about random strangers trying to give me a wedgie for driving it.

2. The Subaru Outback as my vacation and haul the family around ride. The ability to easily carry many bicycles, kayaks, luggage, and people offroad, at good high cruising speeds Not to mention, great gas mileage for a rugged/versatile vehicle.

I don't care about data platforms, just the ability to interface with what's there. The Elio would let me put whatever I wanted in there and tie it to the stereo, I'm guessing a Nexus 9 would be perfect. The Subaru support Bluetooth audio so I'll put my Nexus 9 in there too!

Once you grok that W^X means Write XOR Execute (which you can gather from the rest of the summary), it gets easier.

I thought that meant they added all wheel drive and turbos.

You get 49mpg? Subaru's site says it only gets 27mpg highway 20mpg city. http://www.subaru.com/vehicles/impreza/index.html

"How much is the Subaru Mobile Internet?

Monthly subscription starts at $29 a month for 1GB of data. A 5GB data plan is also available for $59 a month."

You think that's bad? It's the exact same thing with cars, too. When you're looking at buying a $49k car (Subaru WRX STI) and you see it's only $33k in USA, well, that's just pure bullshit. I have yet to read ANY reasonable explanation for this extreme disparity.

I've been looking at buying a car for months (hoping the price would drop on 2008 models but no they are exactly the same) and I WAS going to just buy it in USA and import it to Canada and save myself $5000+, but Honda has just emailed all their US dealership managers stating that if a buyer does this, the warranty is VOID for the vehicle in both US and Canada - your car won't be serviced under warranty even if you drive back down to the US to get it serviced. Obviously they are trying to protect their fucked up excessively-disparate market. Frankly, I don't even want to buy a car at all, now - I'll be paying 30% more than people a mere 20 minute drive from me will be paying for the SAME FUCKING VEHICLE.

On a more fortunate note, Toyota has stated rather loudly that they WILL honor the warranty of a vehicle purchased in the US and imported into Canada. So, obviously I am considering them at this time. Of course that still doesn't make me feel any better about the fucked up price disparity.

I rented a Zipcar the other day, which just happened to by a Subaru Outback PZEV. Didn't even notice it until I was loading some stuff in the trunk and thought, "How can it be partially zero? Sounds like a marketing term for low ". Anyways, the car was fine, but I didn't know how rare they are. Zipcar is good service, and they always seem to be trying to get greener cars. They've got a few dozen Prius's in Boston and a few Hybrid Escapes too. Only thing I noticed (I haven't driven an outback before this) is that the car had little 'omph'. Not that any car needs it, but when I tried to push it down the Jamaica Way, it didn't kick like a Mini Cooper even would have (nor did it hold the corners) but it's a station wagon so I didn't expect it to.

A web page is here. Even has an "X" on the side.

I bought IBM stock in the 90's, and let me tell you, I sure didn't lose any money. In fact, I just sold a part of it and bought myself one of these.

But, yes; I agree. I want a specific device to do one thing and do it well. I want an mp3 player that just plays music, and does so with the best audio quality possible. I want a cell phone that just makes phone calls and will allow me to walk around the house without dropping calls. I don't need to take the world's worst photographs and videos with my phone, that's what my camera is for. I don't want to watch videos on my mp3 player when I commute, that's what my laptop's for.

Features sell, however. The best mp3 player to hit the market yet (imho) was the Rio Karma. Rio was forced out of the market because they just focused on making simple mp3 players, rather than throwing a bunch of poorly developed bells and whistles into their players, and couldn't compete with the ipod (although I don't think they would have done much better if they had). Given the option, the average person will buy the product that does "this and this and this and this..." instead of the one that "just does that" regardless of whether or not they will ever actually do "this and this and this" with it.

Since the dawn of the Automobile Revolution, automobile marques have been proactive in their approach to appeal to certain segments of society. By targeting these groups, automakers would find a much higher loyalty rate in an increasingly unloyal industry. Even today this tradition continues, with companies such as Toyota appealing to the youth market with its Scion brand, BMW and Mercedes appealing to the affluent market, Buick appealing to the understated senior market, and Subaru and Volvo appealing to the aging hippy market. One demographic spoken for by a large multinational automaker that often raises a bit of controversy, however, is the gay and lesbian market. It is within these confines that Honda finds its must staunch loyalists.

The connection stems much further than their not-so-subtle "H" logo. Since the inception of Honda by founder Kilimanjaro Honda in Tokyo, Japan in 1948, Honda has had a long line of successful industry firsts. Honda's first products imported to the United States were motorcycles capable of producing almost twice as much horsepower as their American brethren. Sold out of a small shop in San Francisco, their demographic was clear. From day one, Honda coined the term "Crotch Rocket" to target the gay and lesbian community. It wasn't long before Honda had made its first inroads in gaining market share in the vital west coast community.

While commercially successful, Honda didn't wish to fight a one-front war against Christians. In 1962, Honda started producing the HX100, their first entry into the area of gas powered lawn mowers. This allowed residents to show off their sexual preference to neighbors when not commuting. The new market, however, was something Honda was not experienced in, and proved to be initially unsuccessful. Honda faced several lawsuits alleging their lawnmowers oxidized almost instantly when mowing over damp grass.

It wasn't before long that founder Honda realized that the next battle would have to be fought in the ever-expanding industry of automobiles. In 1972, Honda began offering the United States its first car, the Honda Civic. While industry brass wanted to call it the "Civic Lesson," for the lesson it was trying to teach regarding the homosexual agenda, "Lesson" was eventually dropped from the title before release. Honda's experience in the lawn equipment market proved beneficial in their foray into automobiles, as the first generation of Civic Lessons were powered by their 49cc lawnmower engines producing a then-respectable 20 horsepower.

The response from the homosexual community was very positive, and sales of Civic Lessons matched other popular rivals in the west coast market from Toyota and AMC. Initial figures had pinned sales at achieving a 53% homosexual rate of buyers of Civic Lessons, a figure that has yet to be beat. The Civic Lesson proved to be a remarkable car for the homosexual market, as these families did not have any children and thus did not need room for a back seat. Honda foresaw new potential, however, with gay and lesbian

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You mean a Subaru WRX STI SEDAN, built up from an additional 150 horsepower?

Yes, that's not something to sneeze at. It's a car designed to be sporty by the professionals.

However, I wouldn't put it against a Chevrolet Corvette Z06 with a similar ammount of adjustments. Well, maybe for the quarter mile--but not much after that.

Perhaps you haven't seen the Subaru Baja

That's nothing. A certain car company has a prior art claim in the form of a space-borne logo that's between 50 and 100 million years old.

Never been beat? Are you sure???

Easy enough:
2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STi

Need anything else while I'm at it? ;)

Nah, there are posers in every generation, it's just that this one prefers small, fast, and loud over big, fast and loud. Yeah, I know, people make fun of the spoiler and the scoop, but believe it or not, they actually serve purpose on that car. Besides, it's hard to argue with 300hp and AWD in a car that's actually a bit smaller than all the poser Civics. :)

While a lot of smaller web designers may be MS focused, most large sites will try very hard to make their sites work across platforms.

http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.subaru.com

www.subaru.com is running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21 PHP/3.0.12 on Linux

A nice car! Eats A4's for lunch, without a single mod. Throw an Eaton or a Garett on there, with a bilstien/wrx suspension, and S4/M3's would fall just as quickly, for a hell of a lot less money too.

:)