Nice use of "caromed", Bill :-). I haven't seen that in a while.
But they are still horizontally opposed 4-cyllinder engines, whether
or not they are still reliable. From what I hear in the UK they last
pretty well. It's just a shame that they are so poor on fuel
consumption and that they don't fit any models with diesel engines.
Chris
On 26 May 2007, at 13:33, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Nope. They changed everything in the very early '90s when they
> started making the Legacy Outback. Went upscale on us. We had a 92
> Loyale wagon that was utterly bulletproof. But nothing but trouble
> since we started driving the later models. We'd probably still be
> driving the Loyale except a friend of our son's took it one night,
> caromed off a power pole and put it in Damarsicotta Lake. No fixing
> that one, and it's been downhill ever since. Not to mention that the
> damned fool that took the car didn't drown. More's the pity. Oops.
> Sorry. Not very compassionate of me. I'm trying to be better, but now
> and again I backslide.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bobwhitmire.com
>
>
>
> On May 26, 2007, at 6:47 AM, Wayne Culberson wrote:
>
>> I had a friend who claimed they were practically indestructible,
>> back when they made the opposing cylinder engines. Do they still
>> make them
>> that way?
>
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