Food Bank of Iowa
December 2020
SPINNER
MIStakes were MADE - Part 2
"HERE's to a more active year next year."
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Merry Christmas Schoneslanders! I hope that you are all well and enjoying this rather unusual Christmas season. As you may know, we are substituting a charity fund drive for our Holiday party this year. We are again partnering with the Food Bank of Iowa to help feed the hungry in our community. I like the idea that this year we could each donate what we normally spend on the Holiday party, but whatever you can give is greatly helpful. The first $1000 in donations will be matched with Schonesland region funds. To donate, please visit this link. Looking forward, the Board of Directors has decided to plan a full slate of activities for 2021 and will make changes as necessary due to the pandemic. Watch for our 2021 event calendar on Facebook, on our website (schonesland.com), and in this newsletter. Here’s to a more active year next year! Also, as the current board has been in place for two years, it is time to elect a new one! You'll find this election to be much faster and less contentious than certain other recent ones. Please vote to confirm our volunteers. Finally, as always, a warm welcome our newest member, Derrick Luttrell. We look forward to meeting you. Happy Holidays to all from my wife Linda and me. Enjoy!
APEX, DECEMBER 2020
02 Apex 04 Food Bank of Iowa 06 Mistakes Were Made (Part 2) 08 Club Business & Events 10 Schonesland Board
Bob Timmerman, President
DONATE TO THE FOOD BANK!
Skip Hammerman Social Media Chair
Happy Holidays to all Schonesland Porsche Club Members. As you all are aware, the Club is not having a Holiday Party this year due to COVID-19 and we have chosen to support those in need instead, continuing our charity work with our partner Food Bank of Iowa. Please be generous in your support as there are many families in Iowa struggling every day to put food on their table and make ends meet. Just click below to make your donation:
OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FOOD BANK CONTINUES!
Will MacFarland
We next arrived at Baxter Subaru, which is easily the nicest Subaru dealership I’ve ever set foot in. Two-story ceilings, lots of windows, brightly lit, and some of the finest Fuji Heavy Industries product available shining out on the showroom floor. Here we drove another ’18 Civic Si, this one a coupe, which further confirmed our position that the exhaust on the sedan we had tried had indeed been the product of a poor ownership decision. But while this particular Civic sounded as Honda intended, it was too red. As in, red, on red interior leather, with red trimmings. And black wheels. I like to think of myself as something of a free spirit, unburdened by the expectations of society, but, uh, not THAT free.
Next up, Baxter offered a delightful 2017 Impreza Sport 5-door. In the sea of compromised, high-riding Crosstreks, it is easy to forget how terrific the Impreza Sport is. The interiors are simple and straightforward, the engines are growly little things, and the suspensions are truly, truly divine. Had this car been a slightly less dour color than carbide-grey on black cloth (with black wheels), I might not have been able to walk away, especially at the sub-$19k price at which it was offered. Mistake #3: Walking away from the cheap, cheerful car that meets all the requirements. My entire test drive of the Impreza Sport was accomplished with a massive grin on my face. It was pure joy to rediscover the greatness of the underrated, unassuming Impreza. Subaru should never stop making these. The Impreza Sport is the Citroën 2CV of our time and place.
CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTH...
Mistakes were made - part 2
undaunted, our hero resolves to not waste a fine day
TO BE CONCLUDED...
The Impreza’s greatness was thrown into even sharper relief at Village Pointe Toyota, just up the street from Baxter. Here we drove a manual-transmission Crosstrek, and the heaving and tossing of the high-riding suspension nearly made me ill. Why human beings buy so many Crosstreks, when the Impreza is the same thing, only lower-priced and better, is bewildering to me. And as I stood there, bewildered (and slightly queasy), my defenses lowered, the Village Pointe guys asked if there was anything else in their inventory I might like to try. Thinking that surely a Toyota dealer would not have anything else with three pedals and a shift lever, purely in the interest of being polite, I asked if they did. And they did. Boy, they did. Mistake #4: Being unprepared for a dealer having something that checks all the boxes, but inevitably demands that you spend more. I made this exact same mistake once before, with our Cayenne. James Earl Jones should thunder at me: “DO WE HAVE A LEARNING DISABILITY HERE?”
Will MacFarland Newsletter/Web Editor
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Bob Timmerman President
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