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On the bright side, dudes won’t hit on your wife. OTOH, every lesbian in town gonna be like “check out the hottie in the scooby-doo!!”....

Oldwoodyz,

We're trying to cope with an unfortunate turn of events. Conditions have changed...we're adjusting as best we can.

Hopefully you've had no physical challenges of your own...yet.

Your concern sir, particularly noted.

Fenton

Last Feb we got caught in that storm that shut down OR and WA for a week. I-5 was open but it was a mess. It hadn't been plowed and had a foot of snow with frozen ruts. The only pass over the Cascades that was open was White Pass in WA. We sailed over it in our Highlander. Quite a few cars have AWD and could have done the same but what makes the real difference is the tires. We had studded real snow tires all around. All seasons aren't any better than highways on slick stuff. They're too hard for good traction.

Our first new car was a 1971 Subaru which was an almost indestructible car. Put 200,000 miles on it. Next car was a 1976 Subaru 4WD and it was an absolute POS and calved at 65,000. Test drove one twenty years ago and it felt like the gas pedal was connected with a rubber band. We are about due for a new car and the Cross Trek is one of the few I can get with a manual transmission and I like that. However, our 11 year old Toyota Matrix has been such a good car that I may just decide to live with an auto transmission and buy a Rav4 instead. I buy basic cars and the less bells and whistles, the better I like them. Getting hard to find any. GD

You’ll be a really cool guy if you live in Washington or Oregon.

Nimble, reliable units.


It goes places (w/o being towed), the Suburban/Tahoe crowd thought better of.

What state will this Subaru reside in?

The Gem State.

I'm sure its something you can relate to as well... fuggin woktard.

That's fine. Just keep it out of Montana. We've hit our Subaru quota. Might be ok in Missoula. In fact, just take Missoula with you back to Idaho. You guys can have it.

I’m on my second Forester as a company car. I drive the hell out of it and have a 50 mile run to the airport. I live in ID, but one of my work partners lives in Colorado Springs, way up high. His driveway is no schitt like a luge run. We’re both sold on the Suburus. I had a Honda CRV as a grocery getter prior to the Suby. They have a low center of gravity that helps hold the road, and I regularly pass every car on the freeway in bad weather.


I’ve driven a range of rental vehicles and I’d say the Suburu ranks right up there with the best. Can’t really compare it to premium vehicles, but I have a new Toyota Tacoma and the wife has a new Ford Explorer. Just as good as both of them in that regard.

I’m a fan.

I was told the water pump needs replaced at about 90.000 miles.. I was going to buy a used one until then, don't need a $3000.00 repair bill at this time.... it had 96.000 miles on it for $8.000 . dollars...

You’ll be fine but the Prius crowd will consider you a wannabe.

Toured SIA plant in Lafayette IN years ago.
Pretty impressive.

Even w a lift kit they just sit too low for my use.

I know they aren’t cool but they have served our household well. A couple outback’s, a legacy and a forester have all been bulletproof. They climb our mountain when nothing else will. I have no use for any of the driver assist systems, regardless of make.

My son has a forester which is just a tad bigger than the crosstrek. He loves it and it handles the U.P. winters decent enough. Compared to my wife’s Rav4 the forester has better field of view all the way around and seems to be more responsive. The Rav has the safety features you mentioned and the wife loves them.

Wife has a 2014 Crosstrek and it's been a great ride for her. We run studded snow tires in the winter here on it and it's been unstoppable. Back and forth to town avg 30 mpg. And she got 40 mpg going up to Tacoma on a trip to see the granddaughter.
The newer ones with the driver assist I have no experience with but my neighbor has one and said he got into a swarm of grasshoppers on the highway and the auto braking activated.

Our Toyota has a safety thing build into the cruise control. When you come up behind a slower car, it will slow down to match their speed until you change lanes to pass. Then it rapidly takes you back up to your cruise setting. The problem is that it's too smooth. You can come up behind someone and slow down without realizing it. Instead of going 80, you might be doing 70.

I remember the Forester ads w the tennis lez way back.
Ugly gal, ugly car.

They dropped the Baja (the Subaru that got my attention ).... and now Hyundai has the Santa Cruz