Having pulled more than one 'ru out of a snow filled ditch with my tractor, I’m not overly impressed by their owners abilities to actually drive in heavy snow. Including one a Son in law of mined owned. He now owns an Audi and it’s somewhat better. I generally have found Subaru owners are only just a tiny bit more low key than Jeep owners about their unshakable belief in thinking they can go anywhere with that Ru. Hint: No, no you can’t.
For full disclosure: I do own a Jeep, a 2015 Patriot, that’s fair in snow. Where I live, we have long, cold, often snowy winters. And unless you live in a town or along a paved highway, snow plowing by a township or even county can involve a wait of a day or two before they can get to you sometimes. So 4x4 pickup trucks are the more common vehicle seen here. And they always have a snowplow mounted to them during winter. But very, very few Jeeps or Ru’s are to be seen here.
Fair enough, I was just trying to vindicate myself sliding around in the snow in my WRX lmao.
Although to be fair, where I live it just happens to be that the Subaru owners tend to have snow tires on while everyone else goes with all weather the whole year, so I haven’t actually seen a subie end in a ditch, though usually its only WRX, STis, and the occasional outback on unplowed roads.
Less to do with Subaru and more to do with people being more prepared and them buying a cheap & reliable AWD platform.
Have seen plenty of 4x4 pickups that attempted to do the same thing spun out on their all weather tires lol.
Having pulled more than one 'ru out of a snow filled ditch with my tractor, I’m not overly impressed by their owners abilities to actually drive in heavy snow. Including one a Son in law of mined owned. He now owns an Audi and it’s somewhat better. I generally have found Subaru owners are only just a tiny bit more low key than Jeep owners about their unshakable belief in thinking they can go anywhere with that Ru. Hint: No, no you can’t.
For full disclosure: I do own a Jeep, a 2015 Patriot, that’s fair in snow. Where I live, we have long, cold, often snowy winters. And unless you live in a town or along a paved highway, snow plowing by a township or even county can involve a wait of a day or two before they can get to you sometimes. So 4x4 pickup trucks are the more common vehicle seen here. And they always have a snowplow mounted to them during winter. But very, very few Jeeps or Ru’s are to be seen here.
Fair enough, I was just trying to vindicate myself sliding around in the snow in my WRX lmao.
Although to be fair, where I live it just happens to be that the Subaru owners tend to have snow tires on while everyone else goes with all weather the whole year, so I haven’t actually seen a subie end in a ditch, though usually its only WRX, STis, and the occasional outback on unplowed roads.
Less to do with Subaru and more to do with people being more prepared and them buying a cheap & reliable AWD platform.
Have seen plenty of 4x4 pickups that attempted to do the same thing spun out on their all weather tires lol.