Switching from Honda to Subaru

I find it very useful to be able to use engine break on a long down hill instead of burning the brake pads. Are these Subaru A/T-s capable of using engine brake in such scenarios?

Another thing I keep forgetting to ask: do people still need a set of winter tires with these AWD cars or all-weather type tires will do pretty well even in winter?

Engine braking can be done. It's not as good as a manual, but it's good enough. The CVT has paddle shifters on the steering wheel. When you start going down a hill, you downshift to a "virtual" gear of your choice. As long as you don't hit the gas, the car stays in that gear for the duration of the hill. Once you hit the gas, the car returns to automatic mode within a second or two. That's mostly what I use the paddle shifters for.

When I bought my first subaru, I quickly found out that you don't need winter tires to get going. However, I strongly recommend all 4 tires to get stopped! If you are like me, you will get your speed up in the snow because it is so much fun. Now you need to stop.

Foresters have gotten so big, I think you could fit a few elk in there as well. My cousin was visiting last weekend and showed up with his 2010 forester. Parked it behind my sons 2001 Forester. Almost looked like it was twice the size.

Jon

I was told on my '89 EA82 that 50,000 miles is the cut off.

Sure is a slick looking car. They need to make one with the VTECH so you don't have to cringe (it's only 122HP)

However, my '85 Corolla GTS (Hachiroku) was only rated at 112, and I didn't have to cringe!!!

I used to be able to fit 2 deer and gear in my OBS, but I seem to be taking more gear now, so the deer come home on the roof rack.

David

Since my wife's '99 has yet to reach even half of that distance, I had the belt changed about three years ago, at the prescribed time interval -- 110 months (9 years 2 months) from purchase.

I completely missed that the timing belt change was also based on time. That better be on my list fairly soon.

You Bambi-killer!

Find Bambi Meets Godzilla here ...

SD

Yes. And...?

Do you also believe "Sleeping Beauty" and "Cinderella" are nonfiction?

David

I'm worse -- I'm a Bambi-eater. My father was a hunter (most men I knew in Texas where I grew up were hunters), and most red meat I ate at home before I was seven or eight was venison. Somehow I never connected that and Bambi, although I saw Bambi in the theater I believe the year that it came out.

I rather doubt that Cameo meant that comment as anything but a joke. I live in the same area he does, and hunting is common here. However, for the record.... Deer unfortunately overbreed without predators, so I've never thought that hunting them was bad. It's necessary unless you also make sure that other predators (like wolves) are present to keep the herd sizes down. Hunting carelessly and causing unnecessary suffering

What seems to have escaped everybody else. ;-)

ROFL! The thing to remember is that "hunting" and a few related things like "fur" are instinctively questionable among most people in certain parts of the United States, Europe, and (I strongly suspect) Asia. This isn't because of any clear understanding of what hunting involves, or clear thought about it. It's the barrage of propaganda that demonizes it through catch phrases and mental images *without* any clear thought or analysis.

Somebody (I believe Soviet KGB founder Felix Dzherzhinsky) said that if you tell a lie enough times, people will come to believe that it is true. That's true even when what you are saying isn't necessarily a lie, nd disapproval of hunting is not a lie; it's an opinion. The practice of simply repeating an assertion rather than actually arguing for the assertion is a basic tool of propaganda because so many people let the weight of what they hear, rather than the value of what they hear, carry the day in their brains. :/

Interesting, because I have never heard of a belt change being based on time, only on mileage.

I dunno. Bambi always tasted fine to me...

My favorite movie!!!

I've heard it attributed to the nazi propogandist Joseph Goebbels.