I'm just curious what brought people to a Subaru.
We live on a private unpaved gravel road that's just under a half mile long. There is about a 200' elevation difference between the beginning of the road and where my house is located, so driving home is mostly up hill. This is Maine and we do get quite a bit of snow and ice. We owned a 2015 Hyundai Sonata that we purchased new before we knew we would be making a move here and we kept it through last winter but we quickly knew it wasn't going to work out. We purchased a good set of studded snow tires and I made sure when I plowed the road that I scraped as far down as I could so the car would have enough traction to make it up and down the road. Still there were many times where the road was just too much for the Hyundai to handle so it stayed put in the garage or at the bottom of the road if it couldn't make it back up after a storm.
We decided this spring to begin researching a good alternative and we knew that all wheel drive was the best way to go. We spent hours on the computer reading reviews from the experts and from everyday folks on many different makes and model cars and SUV's. Obviously the Subaru Outback won us over as I am here posting this. We needed a capable vehicle and reliability and value were high on our list. With the Subaru you get a lot of features for your money and they hold their value well. I searched auto trader for used Subaru's and there are many for sale with well over 100,00 miles and they are selling for more than other brands with similar miles. Ground clearance was another nice feature with the Outback compared to many SUV's. The question we found ourselves asking was; If you are looking for an all wheel drive with SUV capability for less than 40K what other options are there? The answer we came to was none. So, the Subaru was it.
We live on a private unpaved gravel road that's just under a half mile long. There is about a 200' elevation difference between the beginning of the road and where my house is located, so driving home is mostly up hill. This is Maine and we do get quite a bit of snow and ice. We owned a 2015 Hyundai Sonata that we purchased new before we knew we would be making a move here and we kept it through last winter but we quickly knew it wasn't going to work out. We purchased a good set of studded snow tires and I made sure when I plowed the road that I scraped as far down as I could so the car would have enough traction to make it up and down the road. Still there were many times where the road was just too much for the Hyundai to handle so it stayed put in the garage or at the bottom of the road if it couldn't make it back up after a storm.
We decided this spring to begin researching a good alternative and we knew that all wheel drive was the best way to go. We spent hours on the computer reading reviews from the experts and from everyday folks on many different makes and model cars and SUV's. Obviously the Subaru Outback won us over as I am here posting this. We needed a capable vehicle and reliability and value were high on our list. With the Subaru you get a lot of features for your money and they hold their value well. I searched auto trader for used Subaru's and there are many for sale with well over 100,00 miles and they are selling for more than other brands with similar miles. Ground clearance was another nice feature with the Outback compared to many SUV's. The question we found ourselves asking was; If you are looking for an all wheel drive with SUV capability for less than 40K what other options are there? The answer we came to was none. So, the Subaru was it.