Yeah, we all get caught up in that allure of the new models, especially in our
Oh man, now I bet THAT's a sweetheart of a truck right there!
Precisely the way I see it, too.
On my brother's they did the consumption test on it. They changed the oil and he had to came back and they checked the oil levels till they were satisfied it had a problem.
My son bought a mid 90s Subaru a couple of years ago because he needed AWD.
The surprise is that they are specifically mentioned by a few folk here as a brand they'll never own, yet Hyundai and Kia come up several times as a brand they like and respect. Just wondering why...
I love my Subaru's, I just don't talk about it here. I bought a new 2008 Impreza 5 speed and paid for it with the savings in gas from daily driving my 2001 Dakota R/T that I had at the time. Put 180000 trouble free, maintenance only, miles on it and sold it last year when I bought a new 2019 Crosstrek to replace it. My 2008 was built in Japan. The 2019 was made in Kentucky. There are no American made brands that compare with them. I considered buying a Jeep last year, if you don't take mileage into consideration they're maybe a little better, but the Subaru gets 30+ MPG and is just as capable as the 4wd jeep.
You do have to credit (or blame) the Japanese with turning the automobile into a appliance. It's a shame Detroit didn't take notice and try to compete.
True. While off the topic, found it worthy to recall this time in the USA when we were hammered by the Japanese durable goods market. I worked at a 90 year old large machine tool mfg co witnessing its slow demise with a lethargic reaction. A company that made a great contribution to the WWII fight. The exit door was kept open as throngs of people employed here their entire work lives passed through it, people employed there 15, 20, 30 years. Young as I was, I was in a unique job they calculated was good to retain. I asked my boss if I should be looking for employment elsewhere and the mealy bastard said no-no we need you here. My dumber believing him. This was around the time Reagan bailed out AMF/HD but few if any others. We were prodded by company leadership to send pre-prepared letters to our pol reps pleading for the same perk since Japanese product mfg’s were subsidized by their government – unfair competition. Then my company ousted the long-tenured president who was managing to keep things afloat bringing in a dumb **** having zero experience in the mfg industry forcing mfg changes the aged facility was incapable of, trying to ‘copy’ Japanese mfg tricks. Then a major blow up – literally shutting down part of the facility for over a month severely injuring a dozen employees. This sped up its demise. Anyway, as I recollect this time the USA was caught off guard, rooted in its ways, and we know what this meant to our ‘mfg’ industries.
