[s-cars] WAS gas prices, now racist subaru's

Sat Sep 3 17:32:47 EDT 2005

Well, my dad's Ur-Legacy had a pretty annoying wind leak in the driver's 
door,
but my best friend's (and ex's) 3rd Gen Legacies do/id not, my friend's 
having
over 114K miles. So far the Saabaru has been totally quiet.
 LL - NY

 On 9/3/05, calvinlc at earthlink.net <calvinlc at earthlink.net> wrote: 
> 
> Wow, well maybe it is just a select few that have the wind noise
> problem.....I don't know. Maybe a poll is in order....on another mailing
> list of course :)
> --Calvin
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Jason Mawhinney
> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 2:52 PM
> To: S-CAR-List at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] WAS gas prices, now racist subaru's
> 
> 
> I can understand the power seat thing. I don't understand your concern
> about the windows. My wife has a '95 Outback wagon with 187k miles that
> doesn't leak or even make any wind noise to speak of around them. I'm feel
> sure they're well designed.
> Just my $.02
> Jason
> 95.5 S6 avant
> '87 5ktq
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <calvinlc at earthlink.net>
> To: "Taka Mizutani" <t44tqtro at gmail.com>; "RM" <waves at epix.net>
> Cc: <S-CAR-List at audifans.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 10:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] WAS gas prices, now racist subaru's
> 
> 
> >I drove a 2.5GT recently in the Subaru line and I must say I was 
> reasonably
> > impressed vs. my A6 2.7T Sport. Tighter handling, and VERY comparable
> > power. So shy didn't we get one....well there are two main reasons.
> > What's
> > up with the no rims around the windows thing? This is acceptable in my
> > '72
> > Firebird, but some on Subaru, this is NOT the 70's. We don't need 
> windows
> > that leak after a couple of years of rubber wear. The second deal killer
> > was the lack of memory seating...sounds silly but since my wife is 5'0"
> > and
> > I'm 5'10" this feature really makes it a pain in the butt! If they
> > correct
> > those two problems I am more than willing to give them a shot. They
> > couldn't have any more problems by 38k miles than my '01 A6 has had!
> > --Calvin
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> > [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Taka Mizutani
> > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:32 AM
> > To: RM
> > Cc: S-CAR-List at audifans.com
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] WAS gas prices, now racist subaru's
> >
> >
> > Fair enough Rolf, but the Impreza is IIHS double-best pick front/side
> > impact
> > for a compact car- there are no other cars that beat the Impreza in 
> crash
> > test performance in that size class the A4 VWs are not as good. I don't
> > think the A5 Golf/Audi A3 has been tested yet.
> > I also don't think the repair cost is high- coming from Audis, I think
> > they're cheap.
> >
> > On 9/1/05, RM <waves at epix.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Coming from an Audi tech, i'll say this. Subaru's are NOT nearly on the
> >> same
> >> level as Audi's in most catagories. True, Audi has their own issues
> >> (largely
> >> issues with supplier parts re:Bosch) But I've worked on, owned and 
> driven
> >> scoobie-doos, and there is no way i'd place it before any audi of the
> >> same
> >> vintage. Fun to drive perhaps. But the quailty of workmanship is 
> sub-par,
> >> cost to repair is expensive and overall it's not as safe as a similar
> >> sized
> >> Audi. Call me a car-racist then, but you won't see me turning the key 
> of
> >> a
> >> subaru unless there's a gun to my head.
> >>
> >> Rolf
> >>
> >> >From: Joe Pizzimenti <joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com>
> >> >Subject: Re: [s-cars] Gas Prices - I'm right there with you Larry C
> >> >>To: lee at wheelman.com
> >> >Cc: S-CAR-List at audifans.com
> >> >Message-ID: <521f4dda0509010507e03cb9b at mail.gmail.com>
> >> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >>
> >> >On 9/1/05, Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com> playahated:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Not too many options - awd wagon, fun to drive, good sized, safe.
> >> > Subaru is the only other choice that comes to mind, and I'm not
> >> > going there.
> >> >
> >> > Lee
> >>
> >>
> >> Why not, Lee?
> >> I've driven one and it ranks pretty high on the fun factor and even
> >> higher
> >> on the reliability factor. I say drive one before you make up your mind
> >> completely one way or the other, or you're just limiting yourself out 
> of
> >> pure racism.
> >>
> >> Joe
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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