On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:40:22 -0600, graham > wrote:

>On 28/05/2015 11:18 AM, Helpful person wrote:
>> On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 12:14:09 AM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>>>
>>> OTOH, Subarus have always had good press but when I'd see them on the
>>> side of the road, I knew exactly what happened to them - broken timing
>>> belt. That's easy enough to fix. To bad they're a drag to drive.
>>
>> As many of the Subaru engines have an interference design if the timing belt breaks the engine is destroyed. They can't be "fixed".
>>
>> http://www.richardfisher.com
>>
>Yet Consumer Reports puts them at the top of their list!


I have a 2001 Forester GT, bought it second hand in 2009 (I think),
and it is more reliable than most other car-like vehicles around here.
Most of our roads are very punishing on vehicles of all types,
suspension is lucky to last 3 years on most cars here. Even so, mine
has held together fine, never had a breakdown of any type and it's
good on fuel, yet still has reasonable power. I've had a few other
Subarus in the past and IME I would say there a better and more
reliable vehicle than most.

>Why, I don't
>know because if you look at the CR records, after 4 or 5 years, there
>are black dots in important areas.