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They are a hell of a lot of fun to rally on mountain roads!

Pretty sure I was a lesbian before I bought my first Subaru, but it's official now I guess.

And in Bozeman if you are driving a Subaru it is a city ordinance that the dog in the back must be a lab. If it is a male it must be named "Bridger" and if it is female it must be named " Madison".

This is not an optional program.

And the Luggage rack must have a Yakima Space Pod thingy on it.

Bozeman is a funny town, not funny ha ha.

I agree with the posters who tout the bad weather capabilities of Subarus. My wife and son drive them and we really don't care what people think. They really work well in snowy, icy conditions, and the AWD system seems to be the best available at the price point. They do seem to be rough on tires, although the newest two are much better, and the gas mileage is not great, but those are secondary and tertiary concerns. We did have one that had recurring oxygen sensor problems and also needed new head gaskets at 60,000, but the company ate all but the first sensor replacement. We also don't run them for 150,000 miles, and the value holds up well around here, so getting a decent amount for a used one is not a problem.

When my son was in high school and got to drive the hand-me-down Outback, I made the mistake of telling him about the Campfire impression of Subarus, and that became a problem, but he endured. (He did not have a choice.) He now drives an Impreza that we gave him before college. He does a lot of bad weather driving over a 9000 foot mountain pass, and he realizes now that performance beats stereotypes and marketing. I don’t think we could have put him in a safer vehicle for twice what we paid for it new.

Most commercials seemed to designed to make me not buy their products. Dr. Pepper is the worst one, and Carls Jr. is the only one that I like, that comes to mind immediately. That said, I seldom watch commercials. miles

My mechanic bought a Suburu Outback station wagon with 150K on it and loves it. And he doesn't love easily.

We got the wife a Toyota and never considered a Sub.

Simple statement of fact. Subaru has the best, as in most clever, car ads on TV. “They lived.”

if you have seen one macho part-of-your-manhood truck ad you have pretty much seen them all.

I've seen the new They Lived commercial, but other than that, the only one I can recall is the old ones with Paul Hogan.

I do remember seeing the print add with the heavy, short haired, gal. Gross.

That is the point of advertising. Subaru targets liberals and gays, Ford doesn't want gays driving their trucks so they target men.

If they don't target the consumer for the purpose of buying their product, their money would be wasted. Have you ever seen a beer commercial that wasn't selling beer to beer drinkers?

I've got a friend who drives one, and I always crack up whenever I see it because he has stickers on it like "deer, the other red meat", and "NRA Life Member", and usually has it piled to the roof with muzzleloaders and/or fly rods. Not the typical Subaru for sure.

Another guy I know used to longline trap bobcats and coyotes out here in the breaks in one... He said it got around better in the snow than his Chevy..

If you ever went to a trailhead where there were several pickups and one Subaru parked there, the only vehicle that would still have air in the tires would be the Subaru...

When my first one got totaled this last summer , my buddy said "thank god. That thing was gayer than chit" Then I bought another.

Fact is they are popular for a reason that goes beyond advertising.

Last season I was dead set on driving through Seattle with a carcass on the roof. A friend and I both tagged out but just chucked them in the back instead of on the roof rack. The Forester held two whole, but headless, frozen mule deer and all our gear. Pretty dam good!

Next year, it's going on the roof for a tour of Seattle for sure!

The queerest thing about this thread is learning that big, tough, manly men make decisions on which car to drive not based on performance, personal needs, or reliability, but on commercials. Really? Learn to think for yourselves, now that's manly.

But it still remains that the Subaru ads are almost always clever and original and the truck ads are not.

ya gota be a [bleep] to buy one to.

That's not a Subaru. Looks Honda or Acura.

Their a$$hole behavior puts me in danger. What is it to you, do you drive a pickup?

LOL, looks like quite few pickup drivers found themselves in my post.

I apologize for their bruised ego, there was on offense intended.

I am sure you have seen the movie "Sleepless In Seattle...


Well, this guy hasn't...

In 1997 I bought a used Ford Taurus station wagon for my kids to drive to school. My son (16 at the time) hit a patch of wet leaves at 15 mph going around a corner, hit a big ol' maple tree, and that POS Ford crumpled up like an empty Budweiser can. I did some research and confirmed that that car was a known unsafe POS, and if I wanted my kids to be as safe as possible on the ch!tty ice/wet roads of Wisconsin, I needed to buy a Volvo or a Subaru. Those were the two safest cars on the road at the time. I bought a used 1994 Subaru Legacy wagon with 66,000 miles on it.

I sold that Legacy wagon 10 years later with over 500K miles and virtually no money/work on it other than routine maintenance. Since then my kids and I have owned 4 more Subaru's, and all of them have been solid, reliable cars that perform on snow & ice better than 95% of the cars on the road.

I don't drive one now simply because we have snow & ice in this part of Texas exactly 1.428 days per year.

And as for penis-extenders, er, I mean, pickup trucks... Yes, I drive a pickup, and I use the sumbitch, but if I didn't live out here in the middle of BFE I wouldn't drive a pickup. I could get more use out of a Subaru Forester and a utility trailer and save a couple thousand dollars a year on fuel costs.

Most of the folks who "need" a pickup truck, don't. Pickups perform horribly on snow & ice, they get lousy gas mileage, and they don't ride for ch!tt compared to the average sedan. Not to mention that NTSB stats show that a pickup is much more dangerous to its occupants in a wreck than a sedan or minivan, more prone to roll over, and with less side impact protection.

Everybody insists they "need" four-wheel-drive, but if you look at the stats, most 4WD pickups never leave pavement, not even once! And if you look at the honest use of pickups for hauling stuff (and I'm talking about personal vehicles, not vehicles used for work) the pickup bed is empty for over 99 out of every 100 miles driven.

I saw the cutest little gal at a local restaurant the other day... she couldn't have been more than 5'4" in her 5" heels, and she had as good as the dad-gummed biggest, perkiest rack and shiniest peroxide-blonde hair-dos I've ever seen, and it was hard not to laugh as I watched her clamber up into her lifted F150 4X4 after leaving the diner.

Seems to me if we start talking about stereotypes of people & their vehicles, I'd have to say that the biggest, baddest pickups are typically driven by short guys and short gals. The guys are usually bald/ing and the gals usually have big ol' fake titties. At least that's my observation.