Good Article: Yes, Toyota and Subaru Can... Save Driving!

[cc700]

I am going to echo the sentiments of this thread that
1. this author usually writes things i don't enjoy reading but that yes,
2. this time his attitude is warranted. this car really is about driving and i think it's the only one that does that in a car that most people can afford to drive every day (as one's only car without unwise compromises). it's a coupe, not a vert or a ariel atom or a motorcycle.

also, right on! getting a thrill from straight acceleration and speed takes a lot of both, an irresponsible amount of both just from the ballistic liability as well as the natural resources required to fuel that kind of stupid monster... and doing that on public roads? no faster way to lose my respect. keep it on the track!

I can't wait for this car and will sell my 03 impreza 2.5rs for it even if that means i can't take my friends snowboarding anymore, if everything is in line the way i want it to be by the release.


What's the best driver's car you've ever driven? I honestly haven't driven any car ever that didn't insulate me from the experience too much to my liking... even my RS was too softly sprung and mushy. only after i spent wholly too much money making the car more immediate with value-destroying mods like cusco sway bars, jdm sti suspension, cowl braces, tires and bushings did i feel the car wasn't annoyingly insulated from the passion of driving. and even then it's still shrouding that skill and passion in a veil that is too thick.

This whole obsession with safety and comfort robs the passion out of so many things. i think the author was trying to touch on this too... if we just got back to the source of what we do, driving cars that are pure, eating foods that are pure, doing work that is pure, interacting with eachother and the world in a way that is pure... we'd value life more.

we'd consider the danger more.

we'd think "hmm, maybe this rush of adrenaline i'll get by going in a straight line down the highway with 450 pound feet isn't worth the danger that i'll impose on this beautiful woman and her astounding child," as they appear in the merge lane..."


just drive a camry or a yaris and it's immediately apparent. hell, it's in everything we do, from the way we eat to the way we dress. society is too safe, too reined in. we're engineered to think of ourselves and disregard the impact of our actions and the things we use. I know at this point everyone but you, everyone else on this forum, has stopped reading this hippie bullshit, because you think i am going to start telling you to buy local and eat vegan and all that shit. but i'm not. i'm just saying- how many truly pure activities do you do day to day? how many things are deadened by regulation, insulation, alienation and isolation?

what if no car had a muffler? what if it was just catalytic converters and then a straightpipe for EVERY car on the road? how many people would stop driving just because they hate the sound? how much more would you appreciate a finely tuned engine? how much less waste would you create just because you'd think that much more about the impact you have on your community when you go for a cruise?

that's part of why i've ridden a bicycle as my sole form of transportation for over a year.

Riding a bike? Dodging traffic, mashing up a hill? That's immediate. That's pure. I would rather have pure suffering and burn lactic acid out of my muscles than burn oil and fuel in a car that has no soul, a car that can't give me a pure driving experience, a car that isn't exciting and takes no skill to operate.

I would rather not drive than drive an illusion of safety. i would rather not drive than settle for diluted purity.

the FT-S/BRZ is the only car i see changing that.

[WingsofWar]

pppfftt you don't take me snowboarding...

[cc700]

and we both live in seattle. see? ain't that tragic?