Posted on 04/17/2025 8:27:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
These days, there’s an app for just about anything. But if you ask anybody who has tried to use a smartphone to measure something accurately, they’ll tell you it’s often a fool’s errand. When it comes to precision, it’s hard to beat an old-fashioned, easily verifiable physical implement such as a tape measure, a yardstick, or a 2026 Subaru Outback. What, you don’t measure things with your car? What are you even doing here?
Believe it or not, this convenience comes in the form of a taillight. For 2026, the design of the Subaru Outback’s rear lighting signature incorporates a ruler. It’s more than two feet long and admittedly slightly less convenient than an actual tape measure, but it’s certainly better than some of the alternatives we can think of. Given the choice between a scale banana and a taillight with an actual ruler in it, the taillight seems far more practical. Plus, you won’t be tempted to eat it. In fact, everybody’s lawyers would prefer that you go out of your way not to do that.
Besides, working up an appetite just might lead to one of the ruler’s most obvious cases: measuring fish. Whether you’re trying to make sure you’re legal or just looking to document your catch for the body of your dating profile, Subaru’s got you covered. After all, what could possibly one-up a picture of a dead fish better than a lengthy and detailed accounting of its dimensions? Go get ’em, stud.
Subaru has made a habit of incorporating quite a few interior and exterior Easter eggs over the years, most of which offered little to nothing in the way of real-world usefulness. Hey, if you can use the 2026 Outback as a ruler, who’s to say you can’t use a 2025 Forester as a map? Admittedly, the geographical scope is quite limited, but the shortest route to being proven wrong on the Internet is assuming that something hasn’t been done before.
We’ll make just one request: If you’re going to use your Outback to keep tabs on the dimensions of dead animals, give the tailgate a good wash when you’re done. Nobody wants to park next to a Subaru with a serious case of swamp ass.
And remember, please don’t eat the delicious taillights.
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Yard or meter ?
Is it in metric?
I’m on my 3rd forester.
And there it is...
why would a lesbian need a two foot ruler? simple...a three foot ruler would have a tough time walking and a one foot ruler can only hop.
I don’t see anything that could be inches. That myst be some sort of gay metric ruler.
It’s the Lesbaru model.
Have you seen the size of most lesbians?
its clearly meant to be used without the doodads you mentioned on the ends... at 18 inches approximately AKA... it’s just a cubit. Answers the age old question “what’s a cubit”... just look at the rear of my Subaru Outback...
3rd Forester ?
They are That Good?
I need to Down size from an F250 2019.
So you can see how long it took you to arrive at your destination?
If you don’t actually need a full size pickup, yes they are!
Also resale value is in the top 5!
‘Two kinds of nations. Those who use the metric system and those who have landed astronauts on the moon and returned them safely.’
So astronauts were safely landed on the moon DESPITE the US system, not thanks to it. So much so that the US space sector, especially NASA, now has mostly abandonned it to use the metric system instead.
Without saying, SpaceX uses the metric system and old dinosaurs like Lockheed Martin still uses (a little) the US system and crashed the Mars Orbiter precisely because of it. That should tell you something about which system is superior.
‘Please get to work on that, Subaru. But none of those weird metric units. Ounces, pounds, and tons only’
Let’s vote on the weirdest system.
Thanks. I wax nostalgic for the Imperial system (includes Avoirdupois).
Thanks!
A neighbor got a New one,it looks Great and Tough Enough for Me.
As a chemist by training, I can appreciate the elegance of the metric system.
But I can think of a ton of reasons why the old imperial system is better. For one thing, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” - that has a nice ring to it.
“A decinewton of prevention is worth a newton of cure.” - eh, not so much.
(Keeping in weight units there.)
🙂
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