Subaru Tribeca

[Fuma]

@fadza, what do you think of the car?

They don't seem to have sold that well, I suppose the R600k price tag could be the reason. I'd like to buy one some day, but it scares me a little to see one once in a year.

I also suspect the fuel consumption must be terrible. It's a Subaru after all.

 

[Fazda]

The car is great, but has always been low key in this country. We have sold about 10 in our area, and I have a very good mate with one and he loves it.

Subaru do not market their cars at all,and if it was marketed correctly against a Prado, for example, there is no doubt that you would see many more on the road. Particularly as they have now made them much prettier to look at rather like a grown up Forester. The latest one comes with the 3.6 litre boxer 6 motor, and fuel consumption is as you would expect from a big 6.

Please let me once again try and destroy this myth about our cars' fuel consumption. I am laying the blame firmly at the door of Car magazine, that insists on quoting Turbo fuel consumption and intimating that all our cars are heavy on gas, which is bollocks. My Outback always gave me in the low 7's/100, with my best being 6.8 between Joburg and Durban. My Legacy, at the moment is sitting on 7.8 l/100. My Forester used to give me mid 8's/100. Sure an STi will down 13 litres/100 if you drive like a Wally and thrash the hell out of it.

My 2cents.

 

[BCO]

My dad has one (the older 3.0l) that he picked up with 35000km on the clock for R270k last year. Besides being thirsty (15l/100 urban; 10l/100 open road) it's very very nice.

 

[Fuma]

I have seen a couple 1 or 2 year-olds with less mileage for half the price (R300k) and I just wondered why that was.

 

[BCO]

I have seen a couple 1 or 2 year-olds with less mileage for half the price (R300k) and I just wondered why that was.

I'd imagine it's because:

a) They're not very popular.

b) They're pre-facelift and with the 3.0l motor instead of the current 3.6l.

This is exactly how my dad got his 2y/o one with low mileage for under R300k.

 

[BCO]

Having said all the above, I'd rather go for one of these Scoobys (unless you absolutely need the extra space the Tribeca offers) and pay only R225k:

http://search.autotrader.co.za/www/cars_advert?id=201106187415021

 

[Fazda]

Having said all the above, I'd rather go for one of these Scoobys (unless you absolutely need the extra space the Tribeca offers) and pay only R225k:

http://search.autotrader.co.za/www/cars_advert?id=201106187415021

That's interesting! That one is listed as a 2009, but the new shape came out in 2008. Must have been one of the last ones sold and then registered in 09. Bloody nice car!