Go with Toyota. About 10 years ago we swore we'd never buy anything
but a Subaru again. That was just before they got big in their
britches with the Legacy Outback. Have had three late model Subarus,
two of them Outbacks, and have had head gaskets go on two of them at
around 80,000 miles. The first one we had to pay for. The second one
the dealer we bought the car from bullied Subaru into paying for.
Head gasket replacements up here in Occupied Canada (Maine) run about
$1500 US. All three cars have had numerous expensive repairs.
A month or so ago I traded the Outback sedan for a Toyota Yaris. It's
a base (very base) model sold for fuel economy. Nothing fancy about
it. I even have to crank the windows and lock each door individually.
<g> But even with an automatic it's got plenty of pep and is quite
comfortable even for my XXL frame, and to boot it gets 40mpg, by our
figures, not the salesman's. I have a cousin who drives higher-end
Toyotas and she swears by them. Doesn't even know what the inside of
a repair shop looks like.
Im my humble opinion, Subaru isn't what it used to be.
Bob Whitmire
"Art's just fart without the eff"
www.bwp33.com
On Dec 18, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> So my next car will prolly be a Toyota or Subaru.
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