Subaru Forester advice please!

[bearpaw]

During break in we were getting 28-32 mpg, now we are getting over 30 all the time, great mileage for all wheel drive.

[h20hunter]

Don't get a Subaru buy an American made. This thread has all but answered some of the questions I have had about other members.

Wow.....that is quite the statment.

Proud to say my driveway is topped off with quality made vehicles....one is an FJ, the other is a Lexus. Guess I'm part of the problem!

[Red leaf 67]

Basically cars / trucks are for transportation & hauling things  around, they get us from point A to point B. No matter what it is,  they all frustrate us at one time or another.  If I'm not mistaken, some imports are assembled in US factories.

[stevemiller]

  Havnt you seen the movie gung ho? lol.

[Fl0und3rz]

Basically cars / trucks are for transportation & hauling things  around, they get us from point A to point B. No matter what it is,  they all frustrate us at one time or another.  If I'm not mistaken, some imports are assembled in US factories.

Yeah, the notion of Made in USA is kind of blurry these days with the globalization of manufacturing.

Also, aside from the fact that I primarily by on the used market, I am OK patronizing a country who has been a solid ally since WWII; we buy their cars; they buy our planes and computer chips.  And if it sticks it to Government Motors or lib-cause-donating autoworkers unions, so much the better.

[baker5150]

Don't get a Subaru buy an American made. This thread has all but answered some of the questions I have had about other members.
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Subaru has a plant in Indian

and I think there is one in the south somewhere too  La. or Ga. maybe 

[Bean Counter]

Don't get a Subaru buy an American made. This thread has all but answered some of the questions I have had about other members.

Wow.....that is quite the statment.

Proud to say my driveway is topped off with quality made vehicles....one is an FJ, the other is a Lexus. Guess I'm part of the problem!

Acting in your self interest and making wise choices IS American and NOT the source of our problem. Screw the Big Three anyway. They decided in the 1970s that it was cheaper to target Japanese imports with tarrifs than plow retained earnings into R&D and their quality suffered for decades as a result. Then there was stupid S like cash for clunkers, drinking and smoking weed on lunch break, and deciding that it's cheaper to pay the lawsuits for exploding gas tanks than recall and repair them all. Screw you Detroit! You made the bed you're sleeping in.




Our Subaru was built in Indiana and I believe the Toyota in Texas. Oddly enough my last Domestic had a sticker inside the engine compartment that read. "Made in South Korea." As another pointed out: the global supply chain is incredibly complex. Free trade works and markets are efficient. Do what works for you and let the crap makers go out of bitness. Doing the opposite is what's un American. 

[Miles]

Then there's the too big to fail government bailouts. 

[h20hunter]

My first autmotive job was in 99-2000, worked for Mitsubishi. They have a plant in Illinois, my brother actually did an internship there in engineering. They made two vehicles there at the time...don't remember the exact models. They were crap. Number one in recalls and problems. Vehicles built in Japan and one model in Austrailia.....not 1/10 the issues of vehicles built in the good 'ol USA.

[Fl0und3rz]

As another pointed out: the global supply chain is incredibly complex. Free trade works and markets are efficient. Do what works for you and let the crap makers go out of bitness. Doing the opposite is what's un American. 

For my recent repair of my "American" iron big block Ford, the cast aluminum part was labeled "Hecho in Mexico."  I don't recall buying USA made parts being an option.

[coachcw]

Don't get a Subaru buy an American made. This thread has all but answered some of the questions I have had about other members.

And you own a Westinghouse tv right ?

[stevemiller]

Don't get a Subaru buy an American made. This thread has all but answered some of the questions I have had about other members.

And you own a Westinghouse tv right ?

  Now that was funny.

[WAPatriot]

Maybe I am alone in this category but I love  to romp on the gas of an American made truck.  It's about getting Off the pavement punching your foot to floor hearing the engine roor. You can keep your Subaru s.

[Fl0und3rz]

Maybe I am alone in this category but I love  to romp on the gas of an American made truck.  It's about getting Off the pavement punching your foot to floor hearing the engine roor. You can keep your Subaru s.

My 1990 Ford F-350, 460 CI, as American as they come, right?  Made in Canada.   That was the point. 


ETA: Semi-related, that gubmint outfit that monitors vehicle recalls, deaths etc. announced today that the death toll for defective GM ignition switches has reached 104.

[Bean Counter]

^ Which is more important? A label of an American company that's made overseas? or a foreign brand manufacturer and Americans got paid to build the car?