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I strongly disagree; somewhere around 2010 the outback was redone to embrace the crossover trend and IMO has not been a wagon since. It's been a slightly less u
by claytonjy 5y ago
I strongly disagree; somewhere around 2010 the outback was redone to embrace the crossover trend and IMO has not been a wagon since. It's been a slightly less ugly Crosstrek for the last decade. They also killed the manual option.
- arprocter 5y agoAgree, and something similar happened with the Forester I guess they try to sell what folks want to buy - at least the WRX and STI still exist (parallels to the Porsche SUVs keeping the 911 alive)
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoYup. 2010 was when they really divorced it from the Legacy platform and it became its own thing.
- D13Fd 5y agoAgreed. Up until last year, I owned both (pre- and post-redesign models). They drove differently. The 2004 was clearly station-wagon-like, and the 2010 was not. I liked driving the 2004 version more. It just felt faster, likely because it was lower to the ground. But the 2010 looks much more attractive, and the extra vertical space makes it much easier to transport large things. For example, we once fit a full-size washing machine and a full-size dryer in the back of the 2010 after we came across them at a yard sale on a day trip. They would never have fit in the 2004. All of that said, the 2004 was unlike a station wagon in that there was no third-row seating option. It maxed out at 5 people.