[Celerity]

I’ve fixed a few of these by replacing a taillight bulb.

Strange cars.

[rlmorel]

I am on my third Forester...love them. They handle and accelerate well, can carry lots of stuff in it, and to me, are an ergomic joy to drive.

I usually sell my car when it gets to 100K miles and buy a new one. I sold my 2005 Forester to my brother, and it has around 300K on it now...he loves it.

I only had one quality issue that irritated me because it was the nature of it could strand you on the side of the road, and that happened once, the other time I was able to drive it to a dealer.

They use an electronic throttle sensor connected electrically to a servo on the engine that reads the position of the throttle pedal sent by a transducer on the pedal. It went bad twice. The first time we had to get towed, the second time I was able to limp to a dealer. Both times they got me a loaner.

Other than that, I have a job where I have to get to work through snow, and it is great in the snow. I highly recommend them to people who ask me. Getting ready to buy my fourth one in the Spring...I hope.

[Calvin Locke]

I worked with a guy that bought one in the late 1970s. I think one of the side blinker lights went out, and when he went to replace it, found that the bulb wasn't socketed, but soldered to wires.

Not a problem to most people, just an annoyance. He was a EE, so it was more of a design manufacturing curiosity.

Another guy's wife had the cheaper or earlier model. Some vent or window wasn't working right, and after some disassembly, the found that it wasn't assembled correctly, some part was backwards. Must have been pre-poka-yoke parts design.