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Hybrid Crosstrek might have been on the radar if it had come along sooner, but reading the reviews popping up in the last week, nope. It is an excellent vehicle for it's time, 2015, that's when it would have been competitive, somebody tell Subaru it's 2025.

I feel like a lot of people miss the point that a LANGUAGE model never knows anything, it can't reason well and totally sucks at math, it just regurgitates what is statistically likely to come next to words or terms you query it about. If you found google too hard to use in the past, you are...

Humm, don't you need to know the absolute value of pressure of intake air anyway, makes no difference if MAP reads 30 psi at 10,000ft or 30 psi at sealevel, it's still gonna be the same amount of air needing the same amount of fuel, whether the turbo did 20psi of it, or 15psi of it.

Nice pic. So able to see on that what you really need to be careful doing is removing the pinch bolt, bottommost bolt there faced towards us, on the top of the balljoint to steering knuckle. Releasing balljoint from there may allow knuckle to move outward and pull on the axle due to spring. Now...

"cool" :LOL: ... another thread referenced the Wired article about 2025 AWD where they actually talked to a drivetrain engineer, and despite Ford not advertising it (Not stealing Ecoboosts thunder because they need more suckers to buy those up?) there appears to be a total HP and torque boost...

I bet if there was an air kit that let you ride stock, -2" and +2" they's sell thousands.

The toothed drive splines, like gears but 1:1 inside the joint engage on a curve, I would say radius, but they are meant to be on a parabola I think. Anyway, less metal at either end, more metal in the middle is the situation, you're putting more force on less area at higher angles either way...

I guess I am 3 kinds of people then...... I don't object to the feel of CVT driving, because I know what is going on. Whereas where you climb over the torque peak in a single gear of a regular transmission it's like whooooOOOoo and the big OOO are the most push for the least gas, with a CVT...

Yeah, but having an 8x6 just to haul the bike on increases the chances of it being hit by a meteorite by 60%.

AFAIK the Rav4 part was speculation as "most sense" when it was all Toyota, with Subaru taking it on, it might be more on the Forester platform. Though their platforms don't seem friendly for housing batteries so might need a rejig.

If the Prius C was voted Toyota's most reliable vehicle, by Consumer Reports in 2018, stay away from Toyota, 'coz I know someone who just traded one in because it was a huge glitchfest and left them stranded a couple of times. I also dumped my similar age and miles Kia Rio for reliability...

Yah they can modulate line pressure to each component doing PWM on the solenoids, and compensate for wear and condition of fluid... but at the end of the day, if the mechanicals are a tad out of whack, they're a tad out of whack.

I think the 2-3 shift was like that on all the torqueflite derived models, and it was almost like trying to be in 2 gears at once, with resultant buck and or shudder if the band adjustment went out or the line pressure was low. That will probably be a bugbear of dual clutch units, when it's...

Upgrades? $3 worth. I don't know how widespread these stores are, whether it's a regional thing or what, so I will describe them. We are calling them "bin stores" on account of everything comes in palette sized bins and is spread out in shallow bins on the tables, I think they just sold out of...

I was too cheap to spend 40k usd, so I waited until employee pricing in Canada and got it down to ~35.5k at 1.37 exchange, with AWD, 4K tow, floorliners and trifold tonneau. That's all in apart from sales taxes extra warranty and service plans and I got those down to Granger prices. So am...

I'm saying that if you take the "truckest" styled minivan, like a late refresh Pontiac Montana, and saw it off at the C pillar and add a Ridgeline bed... it's gonna look like that... or pugnosed ridgeline, whichever way round you wanna put it. Anyhoo, expecting it to be more cab forward, maybe...

On a manual, you only really need 2nd and 4th :LOL: .... strangely some 4 speed autos more or less work like that, 1st is low and they almost never use it, though you can get in it by selecting 1 or L for low. So they usually launch in 2nd, and then 3rd gear is usually a ratio you'd normally...

You might be right, you might be the one man in millions who have noticed that an engine in service in L5-VE form since 2008 with the same solid lifters installed, and known to do upwards of 300,000 miles, should actually have a problem with them and nobody actually noticed over those 17 years...

Well they could certainly do better than needing to turn it through 270 degrees of bends. I would imagine that a good one could be fit with a short enough box with dual exit at 45 degrees off the parallel to shaft bit. However, often with turbos you basically just need something for the depleted...

Though it could also be, "How old do you have to be before you've got the disposable income/savings to buy a Maverick" Reddit does tend Millennial heavy though, and they never get the point that the structure of the platform is highly likely to boost popular delusions/misconceptions at the...