It's out of warranty for body/trim at 3/36. That's where Subaru bumper-to-bumper coverage ends. In my case that happened before the car was a year old. The extended warranty I paid a lot of money for covers drivetrain - mechanical stuff, but apparently not rattles or body parts that become debris on the freeway.

OK, the whole story on why I want to get rid of has to include this little problem: my wife hates it. No, I'm not a ***** [funny, my choice of word here was just another word for cat but it got picked up by the auto-censor], or I wouldn't have such cool toys to begin with, but she's got one reason I sympathize with: we can't seem to drive down the freeway around Fort Worth/Dallas without having some riceboy in his lowered neon-lit Honda jacking with us. This car's a magnet for punks wanting to play tricks in traffic. I'm 45 years old and prefer to push my cars' limits where I know it's (relatively) safe, like on twisty country roads where the deer and maybe the trees are my main hazards. But invariably when she's with me we'll find ourselves trying to shake off some punk with a bolted on wing and japanese stickers all over his car doing really stupid stuff trying to entice me into playing pinball with traffic.

That and the fact that holding a cellphone conversation with all that road noise is near impossible, and my job has me on all kinds of conference calls. With 60K miles, you know I'm driving and working a lot.

So, yesterday I ordered my next big toy: a Magnum SRT-8. Please hold back on the flames.