I'm thinking of buying a new or used Subaru forester. I'm just wondering if anyone has one and can tell me the good and bad? I'm 6'5" so the vehicle does need a fair bit of room. I also have a few big friends so a some space is a must. I also like the half way decent fuel mileage that you can get with the Subaru forester and that roof rack for my kayak is a big plus.

anyone have another mid size suv that they can recommend?

The Subaru Forester and Subaru Outback are widely recognized as the most popular vehicles for Lesbians

Google it

Hence the name "Lesbaru" and "Subaru driver" to describe a carpet muncher

I'd be okay if a couple lesbians jumped in my ride.

Common problem but after upgraded bearings are installed not so much.

https://allwheeldriveauto.com/subaru-repair-seattle-wheel-bearings-explained-part-1/

They're pretty good cars if you don't mind their advertising to queers. I've had 3 over the years and all have gone over 300k without major repairs. Mine were all pre-forester, though. They used to sell the basic car and you could put on a bunch of add-ons if you wanted to. Then they started making the add-ons stock even if you didn't want them and jumped the prices way up.

They aren't big car so you just have to drive one to see if it's big enough for you.

I'm thinking a Mini Cooper might better fit your needs.

Some of the older ones had issues with head gaskets and wheel bearings , if you keep an eye on the known issues for your year and deal with them you can drive the things for long long time.

We applied a Gadsden flag and CCDL sticker to my wife's 2001 to help with the image issue.

One thing like about the subaru, is our 2001 is very simple, not many gadgets and even after 14 years every thing works like it should. Milage is ok, many cars are better, but its better than big SUV's and trucks, Its not a peppy driver and I wouldn't consider it an off road vehicle, but with a set of snow tires its the best snow car I have ever driven.

One other thing I like about the 2001 we have is that the wheel wells, rockers and door bottoms are plastic or covered in plastic. With near 200K, most in the winter (wife drives a Miata in the summer) there isn't a spec of rust on the thing.

I had a '98 and now a '00 Forester.

Older 2.5's had the head gaskets go. Wheel bearings from the factory sucked. Timing belts.

Other than that they are pretty solid. A bit tinny, like most Japanese cars.

They do great off road if you don't go full retard.

You can fit a couple dead deer, all your gear, and a buddy easily and get 24 mpgs on the way home.

Lesbians will accept you as one of their own as well.

I'm thinking about getting a new one. I have my eye on a 2012 with 40,000 miles for 15,000. I also know where there is a 2001 with 100,000 miles but the engine is starting to leak out of gaskets. I guess every older car that I've had has had that problem.

A high percentage of the residents of Fairbanks are lesbians; (I'm making an inference). Subs are very popular - and apparently successful- here; this includes both Forester and Outbacks, especially the latter. My A&P brother who drives old Volvos to beyond 500,000 miles, works on his partner's cars, usually Subarus, and she has gotten great service out of them. Driving pickups to prove you aren't gay is....well, gay!

In 2008, I visited Bozeman about this time of year. After 4 days of seeing Subarus seemingly everywhere, I asked a local lady why that was so. She said, "Well, have you ever been here in the Winter?" When I said I hadn't, she said, "Spend a Winter here, and then you'll understand."

FC

Using it as a hunting rig may make the natives restless!

LOL

Very popular around here. Work well for several of our friends. We get icy roads and snow conditions every winter, but few will use snow chains. E

The company is pretty "anti-hunting", FWIW

YOu can google subarus and other competition and compare legroom and any other measurement.

I have owned 2 of them, they were the most problematic cars I have ever owned. I don;t speed, drive on paved roads and keep all my cars/trucks up to date on maintenance.


I spent more money on repairs on those 2 cars then I have on any car/truck I have owned except a 2004 Silverado.

i bought a 2006 for my daughter a few years ago. great little car and is great in snow. a little tinny but not too bad. i am 6'1" and it fits me but if you are 6'5 with long legs it may be tight.

I had a subaru brat back in the day when I had long hair and no girls thought I was a lesbian damnit!

This lesbian thing came up when Subaru started running big ads in queer publications. They targeted that audience. I don't know if it worked or backfired.

Not only do actual lesbians look like the heifers on the right, take your average woman with issues and kick it up 100 fold and you'll have the real deal.

I had an outback that I drove for work 1 year. A lot of driving in the winter when I had no choice but to go, regardless of the weather.

Great cars on slick and icy roads. Not quite enough clearance to really get around if you have 8" or more of snow that hasn't been plowed yet. Some other issues have been mentioned already. Do your due diligence there.

I really liked the car as far as getting me where I needed to go. But, after driving it a lot for long extended trips, I had to shed it. The seats weren't that comfortable to me. This was one of the last of the old body styles. I believe newer ones have better seats. I would sure take it for a long test drive.

But as far as getting you around, they're pretty good.

You tellin' us to really keep our peepers open when we see a Subaru on the road? Many normal women have trouble driving...hard to imagine what those you mentioned have to be like behind the wheel.

Alternate Lifestyle yuks have plagued Suburus and their owners for years. When one of our club's primary NRA instructors swapped her pickup for an Outback, I was right on it.

She claimed to have had no knowledge of such things - and she probably didn't? But I warned her to be on the lookout for husky wimmin winking at her now, during stops in traffic. My ribs hurt for days from the punch.

Recently two gunclub members swapped their 4x4 pickups for Outbacks. Told 'em I'm taking orders for rainbow decals, if they're interested in being "with it". The divorced one now claims to be a male lesbian. The other one's wife is pizzed at me.



They're tough little jitneys, but I'm never gonna give up my 4x4 pickemup. 20-22 highway is plenty good enough.

Well, one can always buy a Subaru and put a bumper sticker on the rear that reads, "I drive a lesbaru, but I am straight."

Problem solved

Is that a guaranteed way to get girls?

great cars. But you will want more room if you are 6'5.

interesting I think that the Subaru foresters have great head room.

That explains a weird thing I saw at Home Depot the other day. Two ladies were loading the back of a Subaru clear full of lumber, and it was all tongue and groove.

That's why they are so popular....

Subaru is now owned by Toyota, and many think the build quality of the vehicles have dropped somewhat..

That said they are very popular over here and seem to be reasonably reliable other than what already been mentioned.

We also get them with the boxxer diesel engine and again, the seem to be well liked.

I have ridden in a few and at a shade over 6' 1" I have never felt cramped and always had plenty of head room..

I had an older petrol Subaru a few years back and I used to suprise people where I took it..Eventually tin wormed killed it in the months after a river crossing was deeper than I anticipated; apparently its not good when the bow wave goes up over the hood! lol Still got it accross, although I think it was only firing on 2 cylinders for a while afterwards...

Most Subarus aren't properly set up for water skiing. The pitch on the prop isn't right.

LOL

I have a young friend who lives in Montana and hunts elk there, and in Idaho, just about every year. He does it all in an 8-year-old Forester, even sleeping in it most nights. (He says that it's warmer than his backpacking tents). He has taken me (in my 4WD trucks) to some of his favorite places and, believe me, they are pretty damned far off the beaten path.

new Subarus come equipped with a tampon string standard

A river had flooded out over a stretch of road and surrounding farm land..I could see the correct line I needed to stay on the road, but wasn't 100& how deep it was..

I thought the electrics were shorting out as my headlights started to dim, but then realised it was the bow wave coming up over them and breaking on the bonnet!

Like the headlights, I was less than bright, but managed to limp through the 100 yards or so of flooding..A Shogun that was in front drowned when the driver stalled..I can still see the look on his face when I edged around him at 2mph and continued onwards, engine misfiring as I went! lol

I'm curious how this would fly in passive-aggressive Portland, where coward eco-loonies leave unsigned notes calling VW TDI drivers Nazis, not to mention the large population of alternative lifestyle and lefty types.

I briefly thought about getting a Forester, as a 60 mile round trip commute and 13MPG are killing me, but since I'm 6'6" and 330 pounds, maybe I should keep looking....

I had one as a rental in Fairbanks last week, and as much as I hate to admit it, I liked it... a lot. Had plenty of leg and headroom for my 6'3"; I liked the layout and power; handled the snow dump with no problems. Made me want to hit on lesbians.

Well I bought an Outback, its a 1996 with a 2.5 L back in November 2013! I kind of like the dam thing, yea mine got some issues that I been working thru but its also a 20 year old car! Fairly easy to work on, and I been doing a lot of wrenching on it myself! Never did before, due to my current economic condition its become a must! I would think the newer ones would have gotten the Head Gasket problems solved! But with not very good tires, I put new ones on this past spring, I have not gotten stuck the pass winter at all and my road is that last road they clean off and not to good, very steep grade! I like the car enough to have spend money on it fixing things- fuel milage around 19 to 20 banging around, not great but not all that bad either. I didn't know anything about them before I bought it, would I buy another, now that I know what to look for and expect, yea I think I would! A well cared for 2006 or 2007 would be about right for me and my pocket book!

If you like the Outback, I suspect you would like the Forester even more..

before even buying you would not fit in.

i m the size as you and cant get in unless the 2016 is roomier ...

add winter boots and it will be worse ....