Subarus and Headlights, Too

Before I get into the Subaru situation, here's the latest image from my car's dashboard which may explain my periodic "new car fever" of late. This photo is from this afternoon.

I haven't yet decided whether to pitch The Bastard and replace him with another car or not. I drove several Subarus yesterday and was impressed to some extent, in this order:

• I really liked the 2005 Forester (with 42K miles) I drove; great handling and nice road feel
  
• The 2009 Forester XT was more luxurious and had that new car smell, but it was lacking in some way, not sure how
  
• The 2008 Forester XT Turbo was nice, but I so loathed the salesman at that dealership I managed to transfer my feelings to the car I drove (plus, the car requires premium fuel, so that's out)
  
• The 2008 Outback was nice, but very cramped

In the interim, I'm spending a few dollars and some elbow grease on keeping The Bastard at least moderately safer that he has been. Below, the photos on the left are The Bastard's headlights before I bought and used a kit to sand and polish them. The photos on the right are "after". The pictures don't do justice to the difference; they're like night and day. I've thought for a long time that the headlights look like a smoker's lungs. Now, they look like an ex-smoker's lungs.