After driving the old Subaru Outback since mid-1998, it was finally failing in a big way. Although I probably could have fixed it, Gretchen was convinced she'd never trust the car again, and since it's the car we use for camping trips and pulling the canoe trailer, this was a bit of a problem. After saying for 14 years that the only car I'd replace it with was another one just like it, that's exactly what we did. Heres some camparison shots, the 1998 and the 2012.
As you can see, the new one appears to be a bit bigger than the old one. The outside is, but most of that extra room was dedicated to the passenger compartment, meaning the that the cargo space is actually a touch smaller.
One interesting thing about this - in cleaning out the file on the old car, we found the old window sticker for it from when we purchased it. We compared it to the new sticker, and found that the price has only gone up $1000 in 14 years. Either we paid way too much back then, or the current price is pretty good.
It's a nice car, and it is much nicer on the road, but there are still some features that I prefer in the old one, such as the manual parking break, the larger cargo compartment, and the ROOF RACKS. The new roof racks stink, and they look bad too. It was still the right car for our family. We still need to put a trailer hitch on it for the canoe trailer. David will be picking one out and ordering it shortly, and then mounting it under the car before canoe season.
Here's the old one, cleaned up and ready to sell. We did much better selling it privately than trading it in.
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