[Normy]

I just bought a 2001 Subaru Outback that I found on Craigslist.

I bought it from a used car dealer, and I'm sure I porked him right up the ass on this deal! The Subaru was an LL Bean edition, with leather, flat-6 engine, floor mats...and a mahogany steering wheel! Kelly Blue Book says this car is worth about $8000. This particular car has had the passenger side repainted, and since it was white pearl paint, they couldn't match it and one side is slightly more yellow than the other. The rear bumper has a huge scrape. But the rest of the car is perfect- It runs nice, has plenty of power, and while it is definitely a "girl" car, I 'm using it as a utility vehicle 1000 miles away from my home and my 928. I don't CARE what it looks like, as long as it starts and runs!

Subaru's are VERY good for starting and running! Yesterday I actually USED that AWD function to go to the gym and the grocery store; AWD gives you the ability to accelerate, but your BRAKES are still the same; the long and short is that you probably won't get stuck, but you had better NOT try driving faster with an AWD car!

I traded a '97 VW Jetta that had NOTHING working plus $3500 for this Subaru. If the Jetta was worth $2000 working perfectly, I'd be surprised! The problem is that NOTHING worked on that car! It had no air conditioning, and only ONE window actually worked. Almost none of the dash gauges worked, since the heater core exploded four years ago! The drivers door lock FAILED. The passenger side needed about 60 seconds of wiggling to make it work. Really, the only things that still worked on that car were the engine and transmission, and even these were starting to act up: the tranny needed to have about two seconds after shifting from park to reverse. And the the engine shifted about a centimeter when you floored the throttle! The bearings at the top of of the struts were GONE, and their play allowed the power package to shift half an inch power on! I sold this pile of scheize to a used car sales man while he was driving the car by talking to him about football. I kept telling him about how the new quarterback of the Packers was screwed over for several years under Brett Favre, and how I'm glad so see him finally getting his place! All the time the idiot who bought the jetta from me was listening to me, and didn't notice all the things wrong with the car. He didn't even accelerate hard, which would have shown the Jetta's worn bearings!

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