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That description of what it means as a kid to be able to control the rear hvac is just spot on. You really tapped into some feelings and emotions I havnt experienced in a long time. Made me smile
this is why i watch RCR, every now and again he will just hit you with something really relatable and that sits with you for a while and then move on like it was nothing
I love that stab but then again Doug keeps making "idiot" jokes even though he fully knows why just to make a "dumb dad" joke as was evidenced in his review of the 2018 Honda Odyssey Elite mentioning all the useful features for parents.
That guy knows literally nothing about cars lol. He understands so few. Only time I watch his stuff is when he finds some very very strange nonsense car. Then his personality shines
@@1598hi God, his Escalade review. "And here's a refrigerated beverage compartment." Few minutes later, he's completely baffled by a switch showing a compartment, a drink, and a snowflake icon. Then he just harps on and on about stupid shit. Yes, Doug. An F250 is going to have very large headlights. Even a Focus has headlights as big as the average person's face.
What is it with kids having snacks everywhere they go/spilling snacks everywhere they go? Me and my siblings never had food or drinks in the car except on vacation road trips. Our car was not one of the sticky ones.
I was going to say, if and I highly doubt I will have children, they will be firmly and reasonably taught not to eat or drink in a vehicle. It's as much for safety and courtesy as it is cleanliness.
Seriously, I don’t have kids but I used to be a kid and I never had food out in public I was fed during meal times.Every time I see a little kid there accompanied by a lady with a small suitcase full of snacks
My dad only drives BMW tourings and we where forbidden to eat in the car. Drinks out of these spill free sports bottles where okay, but for everything else we stopped and sat down outside on a picnic table. He didn’t had a problem with loosing half an hour on a roadtrip, to make sure his cars stayed nice and clean. I retrospectively very much respect this decision and learned to take proper care after my cars from an early age on. Hell I even liked washing his car in the driveway after he taught me and every repair he made, he got my out in the garage and made me do a minor thing like tightening a bolt etc, to learn about car maintenance. I’m so grateful for this! The knowledge I gathered was just standard for me and it took me years to understand why people bring their cars to a dealership to do the maintenance when it’s so easily done by yourself and a 10 year old kid.
I had no headphones in the break room. All the managers at their own table look over and see me red in the face giggling like a five year old at a quality poop joke. No shame.
@@nidstang373 Good, because you shouldn't feel white male shame. It's a scare tactic created by feminists to shame men and make masculinity extinct. It's awful.
It uses a bigger WRX engine, and it's the successor of the (B9) TRIBECA (which used a Flat 6). Yeah, remember that thing?? This is Subaru's apology for everyone who brought it.
Wonder if you get more than four inches of room in the rear seats this time. (My mom owns a Tribeca, got it on the cheap. Pile of miles on it, but it runs and basically offsets all the carbon she prevents generating through responsible choices.)
@@ulogy, I'd hope so. Plus I wonder if people are gonna start modding the Ascent because everyone knows 4 cylinder Subarus have plenty of potential for absurd power.
@@markwiedeman7271 The new Corvette beats the GTR in every way. It's faster, it handles better, it's more fun to drive, it's more powerful, it's lighter, it gets better gas mileage, it's more reliable, it has a nicer interior, it costs less, it's mid-engine, and it looks a lot better.
@SPN 1 half of the plant I work at has league bowling every Thursday night. And I play airsoft. You fucking have get away from domestic life somehow or you're a murder suicide waiting to happen.
@SPN 1 >shoot real guns Oh it realmantoughguy with big irons. >Implying I don't shoot real guns I do. But I can't do that at other people competitively now can I you fucking knob head. >Hurdur do you even cross train bro
Boring boring boring boring boring. Lucky for me my wife understands that I'm a car guy and I need fast in my life. So I have an 2016 M3 with a booster seat in the back and my daughter absolutely loves my car. My wife drives an SQ5 she feels the same way. NO BORING CARS ON OUR FAMILY!!!!!! Thats the golden rule.
This is a crossover, not an SUV. Crossovers come from parents who are insecure about how minivans and station wagons take away from the attractiveness and appeal they never had. They moved to SUVs, but thought that they too rough and trucky. So automakers instead used car platforms and created crossovers.
I don't know about MORE bloated, the Sienna is a frigging behemoth nearing on 5,000 pounds with all the goodies.This is middle of the road as far as Minivan Girth.
So many vehicle manufacturers have succumbed to this crossover craze that they have lost a lot of their own identity, quite sad to see those that were great become so homogenised.
I can't watch television at home so when a public TV is showing the new ... whatever... from Ford, Chevrolet, Subaru, Nissan, etc. it's always a truck or SUV. Does anybody make cars anymore? Lexus seems to be the only exception.
I have a 2018 crosstrek with the manual and it does that same throttle hang thing (as did my previous '14 Crosstrek). IT SUCKS SO MUCH. Either you shift fast and every shift is jerky and unpleasant for your passengers, or you shift it like its a 1970s truck and wait 5 seconds between gears and piss off everybody behind you who has the attention span of a fruit fly. I am told there are aftermarket ECU options that eliminate that, and I plan to look into them because DANGIT.
This is breaking my heart! I had to trade in my 2014 Outback MT (yes it had some rev-hang but I forgave it for the 6th gear and the fact that it was a big 'ol wagon) so the better half could roll a 2015 Outback CVT and what with the Forester giving up the MT this year my main contender as fallback for when I am unsuccessful in my bid for WRX indeed being a reasonable blend of dad-fun MT with space for kids/crap was to go Crosstrek. I get that thing isn't exactly built to be ripping it up, but I was hoping it'd at least give me some rowing enjoyment. Here's to hoping your quest for mod-fix is fruitful.
My 2012 Hyundai Veloster's manual transmission sucks like that too. Its nanny ECU will bog down 2nd gear hard, and sometimes it won't even go into gear at all from 1-2, all for fuel economy I suppose.
That's... exactly what Subaru was thinking when they made this thing. Lots of larger families wanted Subarus but Subaru had nothing big enough. So, this thing was created.
I think a Subaru wrx with third row seating would be better it would be fast enough for the dad who wants to go fast and at the same time it would be a practical car
Your bit about having HVAC controls and finding shit you left in your parents car a decade later killed me. The rear seat AC/radio controls was one of my favorite parts about my Mom's 97 Ford Explorer, now i've had the keys for almost a decade and im still finding legos in the bottom of that thing.
Why did Subaru know not to give this fart can exhaust? Because they know that drivers would be distracted by the constant giggling of children in the back seat.
Oh, and some production robot forgot a number of spot welds so that they now have to scrap over 200 vehicles because they emerged from the factory in an irreparably damaged state ;)
Probably nobody noticed. That street sign "All turns right lane" can only exist in America. Everywhere else this would be an elaborate pictogram. Because languages are a thing.
Because the people who aggressively question "WHY DO YOU GOTTA BUY THIS ORGANIC CRAP? IS "NORMAL" PRODUCE NOT "GOOD ENOUGH" FOR YOU!?!?" people are also the ones who say (insert above comment) and WILL question why there should be any official recognition of any other language, contrary to the exact wishes of the founding fathers they have such a hard on for when they go to Tea Party rallies but either don't know what they actually stood for or are very selective about which individuals and which principles
3rd row seating is nice to have, they NEED to fold flat when not used... If you have to remove them to get full cargo room. You will end up never putting them back in. So you will end up with a fancy really low to the ground couch that tips over easily for the garage.
@@phantomspaceman Preaching to the choir, buddy. Most people are considered to be "too scared" of any automotive type that isn't an SUV, CUV or traditional pick-up truck by focus groups.
Replaced the CVT in our outback (2010) at 96k miles. Dealer said 2010-2015 have a higher failure rate. Not to mention some models of the 2.0 and 2.5 had some oil consumption issues. Having these appear sub 100k miles dosent impress me much. I passed on an impreza because of that.
Cars are built to standards and regulations now, unlike days gone by where they could get away with making crazy shit. Part of the reason why everything looks so bland and similar.
They've been doing it on the Forester XT for a while. Additionally, starting in the early 2000s the intake was routed directly from the grill to create a ram air for the n/a models.
I spent most of my childhood riding around in the back of a Lexus or the front seat of a tiny Honda hatchback. "Family SUVs" are a recent fad, not a necessity.
Buys a dog instead... and doesn’t see the irony of picking up stinky steaming dog poo with his hands for 15 years vs diaper changes for 2 and a bit of messiness for 8 or so.
Listening to a 30-40 year old man make fart noises for 20 seconds is a surreal experience for me. This man is making bank with fart jokes and I just got laid off. Ig I need to start RU-vid lmao
GMdrivingMOPARguy ... no, its called being a child. Kids do NOT know what is good for them, they don't know that fucking around with car controls is not safe / expensive / will break them, and need to be put in their place. They are not forced to work the fields without pay, they are not whipped and put in cages. They are looked after and cared for, and a lot of other adults who are NOT their parents are sick of their shit.
This reminds me of this old Zizek anecdote about the authoritative father: The traditional father is the subaru Impreza; yes, it is brutal, it punishes you for doing bad things, but it lets you do them, perhaps out of spite. The permissive, postmodern father is the Ascent; "ohhhh yeahhh sureee you can be an inconsiderate father with the WRX, but why not use me, with my forced hypermiling and my cupholders, and my sovereignty for children, because it'd be the right thing to do?" It actively takes out the element of rebellion from its traditional counterpart in lieu of a superficial sense of permissiveness; the result is that you are even more trapped in your life's inertial forces than before, and have no choice to say "NO, this is NOT what I stand for!"
A Hyundai Santa Fe commercial happened in the middle of this, and it looked too darn similar- to the point where I would have thought the commercial was the review.
All cars are affected by this problem now. We just got a grand cherokee (don't want cvt thank you). Every day I see another suv and be like...look at that cherokee...oh no it's a toyota. Other than dodge we live in an era of bland copy paste modes of transportation. Do miss my sti terribly though.
waclosh also wait until MR regular finds out what happens to a throttle plate when you carelessly just slap it closed from WOT. Another broken Vagabond Falcon excuse in the making.
Michael Zaite Yeah probably true for old cars, like the myth of having to let your modern gasoline powered vehicle warm up. IACV, TPS, knock(detonation) sensor, an many more have now turned a lot of this common knowledge into obsolete unnecessary habits.
Any time you have to explain why something doesn’t work the way you expect it to means it doesn’t work. (Throttle response) let’s get mechanical advice from the salesman at the dealership “ it’s supposed to do that that’s how smart the car is“ it’s about as normal as an engine burning oil being totally acceptable until the day the warranty expires!
Bakery Wizard the fact that new cars are made to be profitable for the manufacturers, rather than fun, stylish, or reliable. The laundry list of recalls on stuff that has been available for less than a year is testament to that fact. The only industry that can have as many recalls as automotive and still stay afloat is modern medicine.
Cars don’t last long because they are reliable. They last long because of their retained value. The high retained value of Honda Odysseys and Subarus Imprezas means that their owners will replace defective transmissions (rampant on the Odyssey) or blown head gaskets (bad on the Impreza) rather than scrapping them like a Ford Windstar or a 1990s Eagle Talon with the same problem. Retained value isn’t based on quality or reliability. It’s based on how easy it is to finance a new car and how many are on the used market. Most loans for Subarus are short term and high interest... and they are almost never leased or fleet vehicles. The depreciation on Chrysler vehicles was so bad that they actually stopped leasing for a few years to correct it. But you look at an Impreza that’s been parked outside for a decade, modded, and beat to shit.... and it’s going be less reliable than the garage kept perfectly maintained low mile 2002 PT Cruiser which was owned by a retired couple
I don't like Doug Demuro's video. He's in his thirties and has never seen a floor-mounted headlight dimmer switch. That renders his opinions worthless as far as I'm concerned.
He reviews everything as if he's 16, has never had an interest beyond cars before 6 months ago, and more frequently goes for the 'loliunno/no one knows!' explanation when faced with a feature or tech that he should've grown up around, at least seen before, or could google for 30 seconds to make a more thorough video, but nah.
Cupholders are useful for drivers though because sometimes you want to put your cup somewhere as well as useful for everyone in a roadtrip when you want to have a drink last a long time
I worked at a Subaru body shop when these came out, and worked on one that got rear-ended hard, a month after they drove it off the lot. They're built well, and they're packed with safety features. Not my favorite SUV/minivan-adjacent crossover, but still a great car (even with the CVT, add that to a turbo and it was pretty fun).
"Broad sweeping assumptions" and a Sonic with a VEGAN sticker on screen. I hope that was on purpose cause I have some broad sweeping assumptions on that driver.
That throttle lag is even worse in my Crosstrek, at least they put a turbo in this suv. BUT, it's a AWD compact SUV that I get 40 on the highway and has really low maintenance cost, so I try not to complain too much that it's also the slowest production vehicle you can buy today. But that's Subaru, you learn to love it because it makes you responsible, like a strict parent who doesn't let you do anything fun.
I have absolutely no reason to have a car like these, I have to admit this little car is impressive. 5k towing, 260hp from a turbo flat 4 that's not marketed as a high-performance engine, these are mid-size truck performance numbers.
Before I bought my 2014 Forester XT, I had only owned Chrysler/Mitsubishi vehicles, DSM or otherwise. I thought that all new cars came half broken and that all dealer service centers were awful, dirty and filled with people that tolerate their job, barely. Though I've never had to have the Forester "repaired," regular maintenance at the dealership is met with a giant espresso machine, smiling faces, complimentary car washes and SICSA dogs and cats running around, available for adoption. Owning a Subaru is pretty great.
