Really now Paul...? I found great amusement after reading your amazing
reply : )

(You wouldn't happen to be a devotee of the Church of $cientology
would you..? Indeed, I have noticed an almost cult-like following
among some Subaru/FHI owners. They remind me alot of
the Unification Church zombies and the $cientologists with their tables
on the sidewalks in the city trying to fetch 'engrams' and $$$ from abject
suckers and fooles, much like the average salespeople at your local
Subaru Dealership.....grin hint-hint know-what-I-mean, nudge-nudge..)

Paul, you show me verifiable proof of a Subaru, and I mean ANY
Subaru or Fuji Heavy Industries product, that has 200K (or more??!)
on the Odometer, that is not falling apart at the seams and blowing MUCH
blue oil smoke and barely passes USA new emissions testing, and I'll buy
you a bag of NYC's finest Brooklyn baked bagles and have them
sent to you via Fed-Ex.

Subaru cars are designed very badly from a classic
mechanical engineering standpoint. FHI copied the
classic Volkswagen Beetle engine, made it much
bigger and raised the cylinder compression to a very
high level. As a result their engines run *very hot* and
is well known by almost every mechanic and service
shop that a Subaru/FHI car which has 50K miles or
more on it will be a "driveway dripper". (taking into
consideration the poor Japanese-made gaskets that
they use which are made of pressed paperboard and
cheap recycled polymers) Bottom line is that every
H-O'ppsd Subie Engine is a ticking time bomb on the
verge of either exploding in an oil-shower bath when
the gaskets finally blowout, or pistons seize into place
like when a NFL Linebacker slides across dry astroturf
to a halt with friction burns on his a--!

Also to be considered is Subaru/FHI's Horizontally Opposed
Cylinder design in which the same are placed exactly 180° apart
from each other, albeit staggeed. Because the cylinders are in
the *same flat plane* as the roadway, gravity will cause oil to pool
and remain in the bottom of the same. After the engine is shut off
and still hot, any oil remaining in the cylinder COOKS to a BOIL
in the bottom of the same instead of draining back into the oil pan!

The result is when the car is re-started, a strip of TAR LIKE BURNT
OIL is rubbed into the bottom cylinder walls, piston rings and crud
is shoved up against the cylinder head. Over time this creates a score in
the same and drastically shortened engine life. Ever wonder what that *oil
like* SMELL
is when you start up your Subaru in the morning cold?? It's the BURNT OIL
that is
left in the cylinders, having being cooked and now *scored* into the
cylinder walls and burnt off via combustion! (Hint: if you want to get
100K (?) out of
a Subie, you had better be using 100% Synthetic Hi-Temp oil 5W-30 weight!)

I could go on but you get it idea. Subaru FHI cars are fit only for
use in Nintendo Video Games like Super Mario 5. (Mario drives a
Subaru in Virtual Reality you know) In REAL LIFE, if you want a car that
is built well and DESIGNED PROPERLY FROM AN ENGINEERING
STANDPOINT, buy yourself a Honda or a Toyota instead of a
Subaru/FHI Product.

Their cars are fit ONLY for use in Video Games and driven by the
moe-rons 'merkins who are stupid enough to pay big $$$$ for
these horrid yuppie-like station wagon type cars.

Subaru/FHI should be put among the forgetable cars of history.
The Subaru Outback, Baja, Impreza and the rest are 8Japan's answer*
to the Yugoslavian Yugo, the USA's Chevy Vega, the Fiat Strada, the East
German Trabant and several other examples of automotive history that
is not even worth recycling the raw materials into new cars from.
The world would be a better place if Subaru/Fuji Heavy Industries
recalled every one of their horrid, unreliable, poorly built and designed
goofy station wagons, dumped them into the ocean off the coast
of NJ or NC for use as artificial reefs for endangered marine life
right alongside the old NYC LIRR cars at present.

In closing, if you want a good laugh, go to the FHI Corporate Site
http://www.fhi.co.jp/english/corp/outline/index.html
and read the .PDF file called "The Fuji Dynamic Revolution"

Here: http://www.fhi.co.jp/fina/english/vision/index.html

----------------------------------------------------------
(FHI) QUALITY POLICY (Established in November 1994)

"FHI considers customer satisfaction as the first
priority, and will work constantly to improve products
and services to provide world-class quality"
----------------------------------------------------------

BAAAAAAAAA....HA HA HA HA HA HA......
WHAT A LOAD OF KEERRRAPPPPPP !!!!!

Instead of making cars, Subaru/FHI should be >writing speeches<
for George W Bush, John Kerry and other slippery-type US politicians.
Truly the FDR-1 document has got to be the *greatest load of utter BS
that I've read since I got my Annual Financial Report of Halliburton Corp
in the mail !

Oy-Vey Jeeze Louise cut-me-a-break!

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Someone get me a nice bagel with cream cheese and
a copy of the Wall Street Journal. I need a writers
break and a visit from my crazy brother in law about now. ; ) ; )

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"Henry Paul" <callisto@email.uophx.edu> wrote in message
news:10jvo8sm8cs30af@corp.supernews.com...
> Um, first of all those of us reading this post ALREADY own a Subaru.
Second
> you are wasting your time complaining about reliability in a group with
cars
> that have easily passed 200, 300, and 400 thousand miles and are still
> running strong.
>
> --
> Henry Paul