Fun Drive
Back on Memorial Day weekend while we were packing up Monday morning, some guys came up to us and asked if we’d drive their car the 30 miles back to McCall and drop it at a restaurant so they could kayak the river and not have to drive back just to pick up the car.
I said sure and then went to look at the car / get the keys and stuff. It was a little Subaru Outback 5 speed manual. The road had about 10 miles of rutted / washboard / potholed dirt before we hit pavement. Our Ranger did pretty well on it in 4 high, but the suspension is pretty stiff and we got bounced around and floated on the corners, not a big deal just give it gas and go, but I had to keep it around 30 or less. The little outback kicked butt though, I was holding 40 on the potholes / washboards and not feeling like I was at all pushing what the car could do. The AWD had excellent control in the corners on the washboards, the suspension gave a much more controlled ride (than the Ranger) on the potholes.
The Outback impressed me, when it comes time to replace our plastic car, I’ll definitely be looking at Subarus. It was good to get a real test drive.