For anyone thinking of buying an Outback I've heard that they are not that
much different from the regular Subarus. Only slightly more clearance and
most of the other stuff is just for marketing so they could woo some of the
SUV crowd. So check carefully to make sure it's worth the additional $$'s.

Charles.

At 12:57 AM 2/4/98 EST, you wrote:
>Michael, check out the Subaru line for the ideal bird-mobile. You would have
>full-time all-wheel drive in any model from compact (sub-compact?) Impreza
>sedan throught the small and large wagons to the new sport-utility model. I
>sold my much-loved Mazda 626 last spring to buy the Impreza Outback Sport
>wagon, just for the all-wheel drive. It's a much smaller car than the legacy
>wagon, but to me is the ideal bird-mobile. (I'm a small-car person.) It's a
>4-passenger car with plenty of gear space and a roof rack. It goes down
>steep, rutted, muddy canyon roads with numerous stream crossings with no
>problem!
>
>Cathy Mohns
>Mill Creek WA
>catsafari at aol.com
>
>
^__^ ========================
(0 0) Charles E. Swift
| \/ | charless at umich.edu
\ / Moscow, Idaho
\/ I'm for the birds!
========================