I am fed up!

[lrickert at covad.net]

 1/12/04 18:28:25, "superba" <superba at comcast.net> wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I'm appalled and dismayed at the attitude of AoA.  Some have suggested other
>brands.  Does anyone have experience with the 4WD Subarus?  Do they have
>enough headroom for someone with a long torso?  Say 6' 2"?

headroom in a Subaru is not a problem, it is finger room that makes me hate 
them. Sure every car has things that go wrong or could have been better designed 
but when those problems are claimed by the manufacturer to be positives it gets 
ridiculous. Take the flat-4 engine with the heads down between the frame rails, 
now try to change the sparkplugs! It is a total PITA and this is just 
sparkplugs.  Audi's customer service sounds terrible but Subaru is not the 
answer.  If you aren't going with Audi/VW then I would suggest Nissan/Infiniti 
and some good snow tires as they don't offer too much in awd. Although the G35 
is coming with AWD these days so if that is within budget it would definitely be 
worth considering.  

luke