Subaru’s new line. 3

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   bhurley Posted 1:29 am
   10 Jun 2005

   It'll run on diesel or trail mixFrom the incomparable songwriter Bill Morrissey, a song from 1989...a little dated but hey, some things never change:
   Car and Driver
   I've got a Mercedes Benz with M.D. plates,
   
   I have no trouble finding dates.
   
   I've got a 1980 Subaru,
   
   one more semester, then I'm through.
   
   A slant-six Dodge is no big thrill,
   
   but it's a car no atom bomb can kill.
   
   I make a lot of dough in a high-tech job,
   
   yah sure, you bet, I drive a turbo Saab.
   Chorus:
   
   I'll be you a ten,
   
   even a fiver,
   
   you find a car,
   
   I'll find the driver
   
   It really ain't-a no big deal
   
   to know who's inside that automobile.
   Well I've just airbrushed my Econoline,
   
   "a friend of the devil is a friend of mine."
   
   I've got a 1962 Biscayne,
   
   it won't start if it looks like rain.
   
   A four-wheel drive with extra chrome,
   
   I keep it on the paved roads close to home.
   
   A Cadillac the size of an Amtrak Train,
   
   when I drive I take two lanes.
   Chorus:
   
   I'll be you a ten,
   
   even a fiver,
   
   you find a car,
   
   I'll find the driver
   
   It really ain't-a no big deal
   
   to know who's inside that automobile.
   Now my Honda Civic is a real go-getter,
   
   I look great in it in my crewneck sweater.
   
   And my BMW draws applause,
   
   I am not bound by traffic laws.
   
   I got a Ranger truck, I'm for import quotas;
   
   I won't park next to no Toyotas.
   
   And my Volvo wagon will seat six,
   
   it can run on diesel or trail mix.
   Chorus:
   
   I'll be you a ten,
   
   even a fiver,
   
   you find a car,
   
   I'll find the driver
   
   It really ain't-a no big deal
   
   to know who's inside that automobile.

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   odograph Posted 2:18 am
   10 Jun 2005

   Subaru and Sierra ClubI am a Sierra Club member with a Subaru, imagine that!  Of course, they give me looks because (even though it gets the same highway mileage as a Forrester) it is a WRX.
   But I did remember this comment from a Sierra Club magazine article last summer:
   "And Subaru is one automaker that seems to be driving the wrong way. Long a preferred choice of outdoorsy auto buyers who want all-wheel drive but not inefficient SUVs, Subaru recently announced that its popular Outback models would gain an inch or so in height, thereby qualifying as "light trucks." The switch allows the company to take advantage of a loophole in federal fuel-economy standards that lets trucks enjoy a lower mpg standard than cars. But if Subaru's customers stay away, the company may rue the day it threw its Outbacks into reverse"
   http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200405/lol.asp#5
   I don't approve, I want to see better mileage and a hybrid ... and I'm the WRX guy!

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   anwrnews Posted 9:28 am
   10 Jun 2005

   Subaru sold outI have owned two Subarus previously, but I refused to patronize the company after they decided to take advantage of the SUV loopholes in U.S. law by jacking up their Outbacks. I consider the Outbacks to be a hideous exercise in plastic body cladding, but I was seriously considering a basic Legacy wagon a couple years ago. I walked away because the company opted to join the SUV crowd, and the new car that Neil likes so much is just another example (and just as ugly as the Outbacks, if you ask me). I bought a 25-year-old Mercedes wagon instead and I'm running it on biodiesel. It's the best car I've ever owned, more solidly tacked together after 170,000 miles than all of the new cars I test drove.

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