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subaru Archive
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Spring Break Roadtrip Breakdown QOTD: “Dad, It’s Me, The Car Broke Down” – Has Your Kid Broken Down Somewhere Far Away?
Posted on March 14, 2021 | 52 CommentsSince their senior year of high school was effectively ruined by Covid, the plan was for the eight friends to head to the sunny desert southwest for a week in […] -
Curbside Review: 2021 Subaru Crosstrek Sport 2.5 – Subaru’s Little Guy Hits The Gym, Emerges Stronger, Fitter, And Even More Able
Posted on March 8, 2021 | 36 CommentsSubaru has been an exceptional success story over the last few decades, and somehow seems to move from strength to strength while always marching to a slightly offbeat, uh, beat. […] -
Driveway Outtake: Someone Likes Old Subaru Foresters – Me Too!
Posted on December 3, 2020 | 18 CommentsThis town was once crawling with gen1 Foresters. They were everywhere, including the one in our driveway. But the numbers are finally receding some, although these folks appear to be […] -
CC Outtake: Two Sets of Twins
Posted on July 20, 2020 | 36 CommentsThere is a certain novelty in seeing twins. I work with a set of twins, I went to elementary school with several sets of twins, and two great-aunts had twins. […] -
Lakeside Education: Georgetown Lake 2020 – Ice Capades
Posted on January 21, 2020 | 26 CommentsLast week my friend Scott called and asked if I wanted to come up to Georgetown Lake on Friday as he had a booking granting him the rights to use […] -
Curbside Newsstand/2019 US Auto Sales Coverage, Part 1: Subaru Refuses To Slow Down
Posted on January 7, 2020 | 51 CommentsWho is the thief in the night that stole a bunch of passenger cars sales from every major automaker in America? Subaru. The company experienced a meteoric rise between 2009 […] -
Junkyard Classic: 1986 Subaru GL Coupe 4WD – The Shy But Prettier One
Posted on November 30, 2019 | 30 CommentsI don’t believe we have featured one of these here on CC yet and I know this is the first one I’ve come across in the junkyard so this was […] -
COAL: 2016 4Runner SR5–A Car for the 1%
Posted on January 15, 2019 | 57 CommentsThe nation sways and bends to the 1%. They control monetary policy and have access to the channels of power. Many times, they are the channels of power. The ninety-nine […] -
COAL:2003 Subaru Outback – All-Weather Friend
Posted on November 3, 2018 | 43 CommentsAll pics are of the actual car! In the summer of 2011, we were doing quite a bit of camping. The CR-V was too small to haul the camper, so I’d bought […] -
COAL: 2014 Subaru Outback 3.6R Limited – Oh, We Hardly Knew Ye…
Posted on July 22, 2018 | 122 Comments(First Posted December 21, 2014) I pulled up behind a new Mini Cooper at the red light and came to a full stop. Then I looked in the rearview mirror, […] -
CC Capsule: 1993 Subaru Legacy – Where Have I Seen That Kick-Up Before?
Posted on July 11, 2018 | 28 CommentsI got to drive a first-gen Subaru Legacy a handful of times. A company I worked for owned one, and we were supposed to use it on local Official Business. […] -
COAL: 2005 Saab 9-2X Aero: I Prefer My Sushi With A Side Of Lingonberry Sauce
Posted on March 25, 2018 | 40 Comments(First Posted October 27, 2013) After having divested myself of the fun-but-flawed GTI 16v and gotten the in-laws to agree, in principle, to purchasing the Jaguar, I once again got […] -
COAL: 1982(?) Subaru DL 4WD Wagon – Like The Energizer Bunny!
Posted on December 10, 2017 | 37 Comments(First posted July 14, 2013) My brother called me one day with the news that the roommate of a good friend was selling a car and would I be interested? […] -
Wordless Outtake: Dirt Is The Loneliest Color
Posted on October 1, 2017 | 32 CommentsCostco Parking Lot, Timnath, CO, September 29, 2017 -
Japanese Classic: Subaru B4 “Blitzen”
Posted on June 6, 2016 | 27 CommentsA couple of weeks ago, Jim Brophy visited the lemon lot at Yokota Airbase and provided a good overview of the kinds of cars that are often purchased by American […]