You know

While I do not know details I do know of a few Subies with >100K miles on
them, although I am not up on their repair history.

You spend a while bashing the boxer engine--I might point out that a small
German firm has done ok with the boxer--ever hear of Porsche?


"Vernacular? That's a derby!" <boing3eerb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:63d4a$414065ad$d1cc796f$2552@snip.allthenewsg roups.com...
>
> 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!
>
> --------- end -----------
>
> 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
>