rev up your engines, no I just didn't buy a Subaru Outback if you've been
following me you know I'm not a big Subaru fan but I have customers of
Subarus got a pretty happy with them so I'm gonna show you what they like about
them and why they bought them now this is a 14 year old not bad the fancy LL
Bean Edition the customer though this is the University professor he doesn't
drive all that much it's 14 years old but he's only got 60,000 miles on it
it's rather roomy inside this has the leather seats set up pretty good back has
got a reasonable lot of room and so does the trunk it's got the
cool hider so people can't see what you have hiding in the trunk and this
particular one has a 6-cylinder boxer engine like a Porsche 911 now this is a
normally aspirated boxer engine three cylinders on each side and it puts on
pretty good 250 horsepower no as such it's pretty much a gas hog in town it
gets about 16 miles a gallon this particular one in town but as I said my
customer he's a professor he doesn't drive much he doesn't really carry that
much about gas mileage since he's only average about 4,000 miles a year the gas
mileage isn't that big of a deal to him that's another reason that he's mainly
happy with this vehicle you put low mileage on one they can last
quite some time sure the boxer engines are notorious for blowing head gaskets
but they generally don't do that till they get older hundred something
thousand miles he's only got 60,000 miles on it so
you're not driving that many miles subaru may not be a bad idea to get in
the same thing goes for his choice of transmission it's got an automatic I
advise people they want to buy a Subaru get a standard because they last a lot
longer they have relatively weak automatic transmissions he doesn't drive
like a maniac he hasn't burned the transmission out it
still shifts quite fine I'll give you an example for my costumers of where it's
the wrong car I had a customer it came from Africa he claimed that he was the
son of some senator and he came to Houston to go to school cost they have
problems with people taking their kids so they won't run for reelection so
he was hearing houston it's father giving him $5,000 to buy a used car and
he bought one of these six cylinder engines with an automatic transmission
he bought it from elderly man obviously drove it slow well in nine
months that guy destroyed both the engine and
the transmission realize the top speed of this baby is 140 miles an hour
so I asked the kid are you driving this thing fast he says oh yeah I'm always
driving over 100 miles an hour when I'm driving up to Dallas but he had diplomat
tags on the things so he got away with a lot of that stuff but he didn't get away
with destroying the engine and a transmission when he came back nine
months later the engine was clanging like mad the transmission was slipping
like mad so he destroyed it you can't beat one of these things when I get old
because being a Japanese build vehicle it's still pretty well built even though
I don't like Subarus so even if you get an old one it's 14 years old it may
still go 140 miles an hour but I'll only do it for a short period of time until
something then blows up now being a subaru this baby's all
wheel drive all the wheels drive it so they're fantastic vehicles in the snow
or the sand there's a rear differential you got your CV shafts going to both
sides left and right oh we got in the front of the car we got the drive shafts
back in there on the right on the left too so all four wheels are driven wheels
and as much as I'm not a big Subaru fan they really do make good all-wheel drive
systems they've been basically making them longer than most people have to
have them pretty much perfect in if you've really got having all-wheel drive
vehicle you might think Subaru but these boxer engine specially the
six-cylinder ones the others are for like a Volkswagen this is six like a
Porsche 911 they are cows to work on let me tell you
clucking this there's a little arcing on between the side and the fender on the
engine on both sides you can barely get your hands in there do any work now he's
been lucky with this one but a lot of my costumers the Subarus I got to replace
the air conditioning compressor stay put relatively weak air conditioning
compressors now if you live up north in Detroit or something you may not care
all that much about it but down here in Texas people want good air conditioning
systems when I moved out here in 1979 there were quite a few Subaru
dealerships around this time went on they dwindled in run away there was only
a couple of them left they're not bad popular in hot areas where doesn't snow
but they're real popular Colorado Alaska Canada places where there's a lot of
snow the four-wheel drive does come in handy and this particular one being the
LL Bean fancy package it really handles quite well especially if it's rain or
something with the all-wheel drive you're not gonna have any slipping I
rented one of these things years ago when I went to Yosemite and they're
having all kinds of rain storm I'm driving through the mountains and I
thought man this thing really doesn't slip on these went mountain roads and I
looked and of course it was all-wheel drive and then all-wheel drive made a
big difference they do handle quite well the beef that most of my other customers
have with the Subarus is that they wouldn't get out of their own way with a
little bitty 4-cylinder boxer engines one of the reasons they put these
six-cylinder ones and I put out a ton more horsepower have a bunch more torque
they're actually pretty zippy vehicles but at the same time they're pretty much
gas hogs in town and on a highway this guy gets like 22 miles a gallon
which is really no great thing either and it too has a big luggage rack on the
top if you can't fit all your stuff and all the space inside you're gonna throw
it on the top not sure there's no way one of these Subarus is gonna last as
long as a Toyota 4runner but you're gonna have these Subarus a lot cheaper
new and tons cheaper used and really just like Volvo's the newer ones there
are a lot more stylish than the old ugly ones were and with front and rear disc
brakes and fancy rims these things stop quite well and this is no lightweight
vehicle this baby weighs thirty five hundred pounds so it's a solid built
vehicle it's another reason it doesn't get such hot gas mileage but if you want a
safe solid built vehicle hey if you don't drive there many miles this could be a
good choice for you so now you know a little bit more about a Subaru Outback
wagon so why it might not be a bad idea for you to buy one especially you can
get a used one like this with low mileage at a decent price, so if you
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