A year or how many miles? A 100K warranty does no good if they crap out at 110K.

But, those can be repaired typically, not “we dont repair them we just exchange them” to the tune of $7500.

Yea, im assuming you had the first gen of the 2.0T?

Hard for me to say wince Im a VW fanboy. Even as such I was very disappointed in the persistent issues with the Subie.

2013 legacy. Started making noise around 105K.

We had a 2013 legacy, always maintained by Subaru dealers. Plus head gaskets? Seriously? I laughed at eh service techs face when he said 90% of them have issues. So did my 98' Neon!

Common misconception that Subarus are still reliable. Google Subaru CVT transmission issues. Typically dont last past 110K. We just got rid of ours due to increased oil consumption (fanboys chime in with “its a Subaru thing”, yea whatever, 4qts in 7000 miles), and a transmission on its way out, which they cannot…

You are right, ask Ford about Hyundai and Nissan about Mitsubishi. They do it when they know they will not have any repercussions with their vehicles (didn’t work out for Ford though, CMaxx)

Or as I said above, allow the OEMs to test each others. They all lease and test competitive vehicles, why not add this test to the list.

Completely agree, but the way which they are tested also enables this behavior. I wonder what would happen if other OEMs were responsible for the testing of competitors vehicles?

Fun fact, Ford (and GM) sued the US government after the war for bombing some of its factories in Germany that were supporting the other side.

He was actually said fascists “role model”.

Whatever happened to publishing articles without some sort of political influence or bias? Those were the good ol’ days...

I used to work in safety. The bags went off and the pretensioners did too, burned the belt to my coat. It was around 35mph collision. I felt nothing on my face afterwords, not even the powder.

They have some give (the axle that houses the webbing will twist a few times as designed to allow certain g’s) but are typically designed as if they were the only system in use when spec’d.

False, you are incorrect. If properly seated you would not touch the airbag, I know I did not when I got into an accident earlier this year.

Agreed. They are SUPPLEMENTAL safety devices. Are they good to have? To some degree yes, but seat belts and vehicle structure do most of the work to keep you safe during a collision.

Not sure its for the other models, think just the Tiguan and Atlas?

FALSE.

We cross shopped, but the volvos are more pricey and 6 month lead time with questionable reliability, which means long lead for parts too.