Posted on 02/06/2013 8:11:17 AM PST by US Navy Vet
You probably bought a great car. We bought a Legacy last Spring. I am a male lesbian. The car corners like a race car. The flat four engine reduces the center of gravity and the wide tires with four wheel drive makes it stick like it’s glued to the road. Nissan and Toyota are using the CVT transmissions now. We have the paddle shifters with the pre-programmed “gears”. She flat scoots when you pass on the two lane highways. She’s at 100 mph before you know it. I put Nokian studded tires on it and it is almost too good on ice. She’ll never win any dry pavement drag races, but I have fun in the snow and ice. I’ll pull up next to a guy with a four wheel drive pickup at a stop light. When the light turns green, I get on it and then pull in front of the pickup. They have better reflexes and more power, but I have the traction and the sneakiness. I’ll never buy another UAW car. They can steal my tax money, but I’m not giving them one cent by choice.
“...it will be either a Nissan Titan or a Ford F-150 Super Cab 4X4.”
Why not put Toyota into the mix, as well?
They make some _very_ nice pickups, although I don’t have one.
I bought a 2005 RAV4 new, have put 148,000 miles on it, and it’s never needed anything other than routine maintenance parts — brakes, fluids, etc. (doesn’t include a new rear door from the lady in a red Mercedes that ran into mem but that didn’t break on its own)...
Yes, and another one stating that if you're reading this, you're being watched.
A boxer engine is a flat, horizontally-opposed engine (think of it as a 180 degree vee engine). The “boxer” monicker comes from the pistons in each bank acting like the fists of 2 boxers facing each other.
Subarus have either a flat 4 or a flat 6.
Advantages of the boxer configuration is natural internal balance (because of the 180 degree configuration) and a low center of mass. However, they tend to be much noisier than the same displacement engine in a straight, or traditional vee configuration.
Ferrari had a 12 cyl boxer in the 1970’s (Ferrari 512 BB) and Alfa Romeo had a flat 4 in the same period in their Alfasud series.
Great links! I’m looking to buy a Subaru sometime this year and I now know what to ask if I’m going for a used car.
Personally, I never gave accidents any thought whatsoever until a lady ran the light and t-boned my truck, killing it and giving me a free ambulance ride and stay in the hospital. It took a few months to not worry about being in a car after that one.
These days, I can't say I spend too much time worrying about the next accident, but it's nice to know the OB was one of the very few Top Safety Pick+ award winners from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) for 2013 models.
It's not perfect. I hear that the factory GPS sucks and mine doesn't have it, but other than that, this is a very cool, fairly well thought out machine for the money. No regrets.
It’s not a Liberal mobile when the roads are snow covered and icy.
It’s a useful tool.
One of our cars is a Prius and I love to go incognito with no stickers and mess with liberal’s heads. If I park beside someone with Obama stickers I always strike up a conversation about how I voted for Obama but now I am sooooo disappointed in him. Then I mention some factoid about the damage he is doing to the country. 100% of the time they stand there and listen to me because I have liberal cred with my Prius. I even went to a local Dem club meeting and “shared” my disappointment in Obama. I did slip in a few times that I drive a Prius so they didn’t even suspect I was conservative.
The Prius is the ultimate undercover car for a conservative LOL!! I have planted a lot of seeds into their little mushy brains
HEY!!!
I resemble that remark!!! :)
“Ferrari had a 12 cyl boxer in the 1970’s (Ferrari 512 BB) and Alfa Romeo had a flat 4 in the same period in their Alfasud series.”
Ferrari’s 12-cylinder boxer is, strictly speaking, not a boxer; the crankshaft in their engine looks basically like one from an inline-6 or V12 engine, and Ferrari themselves referred to it as a “180-degree V12”. Using a traditional boxer crank (with the rod journals set 180 degrees out from each other) would have made the engine a LOT longer, and with six cylinders on each bank the engine is pretty smooth anyway.
This engine, shrunk to a displacement of 3.0L, also formed the basis of Ferrari’s F1 engines for much of the 1970s.
I prefer Toyotas, simple and no-frills as they are, but that's beside the point.
Only downside to Subaru is that there's just less available dealerships around -- compared to Toyota and Honda -- to take care of warranty issues and scheduled services.
Other than that, I will say that Subaru understands the meaning of 'Off-Road' like Toyota, Ford, and Jeep do.
The problem we ran into when looking @ a used Subaru(Outback or Forester) was that they either came with 30,000 or so miles(and had a new car price tag OR 150,000 miles with an uncertain future. NOTHING(at least in the Omaha Area) in between.
“As a Miata owner, I can empathize. Miatas come with their own baggage, at least among people who aren’t car enthusiasts.”
Man I hear you there!
At least mine is a Mazdaspeed version so it looks a little bit less “cute”. And of course it has a turbo, so it moves.
When my friends gave me crap I just let them drive it. The smart ass remarks end immediately. Most want one after driving it.
I just tell people that it takes a real man to drive a car that girly. :)
And nobody who’s actually driven a Miata looks down on them, not to mention it’s probably the best thing to happen to amateur motorsports in the last thirty years.
“...Ferrari’s 12-cylinder boxer is, strictly speaking, not a boxer...”
Yes, you are indeed right, although this did not keep Ferrari from referring to it as a boxer:
512 BB (Berlinetta Boxer).
VW’s and Porsche’s 4 and 6 cyl engines are also flat coniguration “boxer” engines.
One of my son’s cars is a Subaru. Got them a bumper sticker from Zazzle - “I May Drive a Subaru But I’m Not a Liberal”.
Keep up the good work!
I just bought a 2012 with 12000 miles on it.
Nice car!
Did they throw in the Obama sticker and the rainbow license plate frame?
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