For the first time I actually had the math work out on this for me. I do ~2500 miles/mo, and the fuel savings switching from my LX470 actually covered the payment+gas on my 3 year old Outback when I bought it a year and a half ago. Math looks even better now...

Driving through CT last night I saw something like $6.20 for diesel while I was paying $4.24 for 87, the delta is pretty insane.

‘04 LX owner here. I may be biased with my rusty northeast rig, but honestly this is a NP all day long for me with the condition of that underside.

I like how this looks, but I feel like there is a missed opportunity here. Seems like the benefits of the old deltawing design and the drawbacks of current EV tech align nicely. Would love to see some small, slippery EVs  running around.

This seems awful high. That said, my dad had a Buick Park avenue which shared a platform with this, and it really was a great car. Comfortable in a way that is basically impossible to find these days, reliable outside of some minor electrical issues, cheap to service, a ton of space for my 6'2" frame in the back, and…

For a single panic stop from 60-70 and modern ABS, I’m gonna go ahead and assume that most vehicle brakes these days can handle it without fade. The biggest factor in braking distance is likely to be tire compound rather than weight, and EVs are likely to be equipped with low rolling resistance tires, which I assume…

Christ, I didn’t realize they were getting that powerful. I guess the car-like pricing and size kinda implies that sorta power, but in my head these were always more like quad ATV-type drivetrains.

I believe that, but short of very detailed records you never know. My buddy’s car grenaded <1000 miles into his ownership at 90k total I believe. I would hope that with a JDM swap they took care of the turbo filter screen issue though.

Maybe it’s because I’m not that familiar with the utility SxS world, but 82hp seems like an awful lot for one of these.

Love these and the outbacks that share the drivetrain in principle, but having just had a buddies outback XT of the same vintage total itself with a turbo failure causing rod knock, CP for me.

Oh it does, both Chademo and Tesla cars/chargers use CAN for comms. In Europe Tesla has been using CCS (albeit a slightly different one than the US, but still on PLC comm) since 2018, and have also had an adapter for older vehicles with the Tesla charge port to use it on 3rd party chargers, and that retrofit on…

Ability to solve comms is not what has held them back from releasing an adapter. Tesla already can use the PLC comm standard CCS uses in European Superchargers. And again, all the hardware upstream of the physical cable is identical, or at least it was with V2, (I left Tesla during V3 roll out, but I’d be surprised if…

Changing the cables is not that big of a deal. aside from the cable itself, the rest of the supercharger hardware(and the vast majority of the expense) is identical, and cables are a wear item that gets replaced regularly anyway. You’re right about the dongles though.

I don't know, the idea of a car that fast, with crash structures that high, weighing fully twice what an f150 does is a bit scary to me.

Eh, I kinda liked these, though they were heavy AF and I got flats all the time on my ‘07. Ended up going down a size on aftermarket wheels.

Yeah, I toyed with the idea of buying it from him and doing just that, but had a hard time convincing the wife why we needed a 5th car and another outback (I have a ‘17). For him, this was a daily family/dog hauler, and a JDM swap was not in the cards.

That’s my suspicion, he had it towed to my place and I pulled the downpipe to confirm the turbo failed and verify the rod knock/bearing material in the oil. I didn’t tear it down further than that before he sold it to cut his losses, but from what I’ve read that seems to be the most likely cause.

As much as I love the look of the legacy gt/outback xt wagons, I always avoided them for reliability reasons. My buddy went against my advice and bought an ‘08 outback xt a few months back, had it about a month later the turbo grenaded and took a rod bearing with it on its way out. Totaled an otherwise clean car…

Staying left on the Merritt at 70 people treat you like you’re doing 40 in the left lane on I95, it’s crazy.

Not my state but I drive through it a lot. The level of aggression on the Meritt Parkway in CT is unbelievable.