Rick Popely Answers Your Questions

By David Thomas
March 5, 2015
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Former Chicago Tribune automotive reporter Rick Popely is now answering your questions on Ask.cars.com. Rick has been covering the automotive industry for more than 25 years and brings his wealth of knowledge to our question-and-answer site.

Want to know the advantages of an adaptive suspension? Or when a new model goes on sale? Check out Ask.cars.com and search for an answer. If you can’t find it, submit your query and Rick, and Cars.com editor Joe Bruzek will track down an answer.
Managing Editor
David Thomas

Former managing editor David Thomas has a thing for wagons and owns a 2010 Subaru Outback and a 2005 Volkswagen Passat wagon.

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