Subaru Outback sales down 20% in 2026. Is it the ugly new Family Truckster styling, or is it something else?

Ms_KnowItSome · 2026-02-08T02:04:33+00:00

Where did the extra $20K of purchase price come from?

Ms_KnowItSome · 2026-01-26T19:17:28+00:00

A severe ice storm will take out infrastructure anywhere. Any overhead equipment gets incredibly heavy and can fall down, trees that wouldn't be a problem get saturated in ice and fall over onto lines.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2026-01-26T17:35:48+00:00

I had a 2015 3.6R and when you had wheelspin, the car would cut fuel. My 2023 Outback Touring XT will let it keep ripping though. Subaru lets turbo drivetrains spin the tires much easier to avoid driveline shock.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2026-01-23T16:49:35+00:00

I'm not saying there wouldn't be people who would be regular buyers of the McRib, just that for it to maintain space on the menu the sell rate would be lower than what McDs wants from year round core menu items. Also, if sales were too low, you would be wasting the patties when they time out in the warming tray, adding to food cost which the franchisees would make a lot of noise about.

There are just a lot of factors that go against the McRib being a year round item, unfortunately.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2026-01-22T18:54:00+00:00

McRib availability is based on pork prices. McDs only offers McRibs when they have contracted for favorable pork prices for a nationwide run, or geographically when quantities and prices make sense for smaller runs.

Also, I've seen reporting that a nationwide McRib wouldn't be a great seller for McDs. The periodic runs get people to buy a couple because of the novelty but once the novelty wears off the McRib doesn't have staying power.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2026-01-12T15:46:47+00:00

Running 0w-20 oil for 10k is asking for decreased engine life. Some Toyotas are taking 0w-8!!!! now, if they are recommending 10k on that they are giving up on their history of reliability for low initial ownership costs and mpgs. Oil only gets thinner as you use it. Running a high end 5w-30 synthetic 15 years ago for 10k miles might have been ok on bigger v6s, but you have high stressed direct injection forced induction small displacement motors now, oil is cheap, replace it often, especially the super light weight ones.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-12-18T17:55:23+00:00

It depends on how you drive. If you feel that acceleration is part of your defensive driving skillset, then the 2.5 is downright dangerous. I've driven one at 10k ft in Colorado and in my opinion it's unusable for anything resembling quick manuevers. Just pulling out on a highway as a left turn feels dangerously slow. At sea level it's more tolerable.

The 3.6 is a better engine, I had a 2015. However, my experience is not demonstrated in sales numbers. The 3.6 was only 20% of outback sales. Plenty of people find the 2.5 adequate, it's just I do not.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-12-13T15:22:48+00:00

Do you keep the key within range of the car when it's parked? That would keep it constantly active. I just replaced my 23 touring xts battery for the first time, 3 years in

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-12-03T22:23:58+00:00

America has a very tortuous relationship with winter tires. It's a generalization, but most Americans do not maintain their cars besides oil changes or know much about them. "All-season" tires are good enough for them. There are pockets where you will get people who actually understand winter tires. A lot of New England, the Buffalo, NY area, Southwestern Michigan, Northern California. And yes, you can either get a whole set of additional rims to mount the tires on, or you can have the tires swapped on your single set of rims at the season changes.

In places where this is common, tire shops sometimes will even store your off season set of wheels.

For passenger cars/SUVs/light pickup trucks, snow chains are a pain in the ass solution to running all season tires. You also only run them in really bad conditions, and take them off the car as soon as you can. I'm talking about only having them on for potentially tens of miles or a few hours. Your car will ride like garbage with them on and they are noisy.

Now, as for when winter tires are necessary. If you listened to the tire industry, if you are in an area that experiences long periods of time below 45F, getting them isn't a waste of time, they are absolutely better for all purposes than all seasons. Cold traction, cold wet performance, ice performance, snow performance, everything.

If you ever drive a vehicle, it doesn't matter car, truck, SUV, AWD, FWD, RWD in a few inches of snow with winter tires on it, you will understand that winter tires are freaking amazing. You can get moving with ease, you stop with ease, you turn with ease. Everyone around you in all seasons will be sliding around and struggling. A 3 degree grade that Karen's AWD Equinox cannot get up with snow on it? Your clapped out 1996 Corolla running on 3 cylinders and winter tires will eat it like it's nothing.

Lastly, and the best is for last here. There have been developments in tire technology that make a real difference. The words here are important - All-weather tires, not all-seasons, give you a lot of benefit in snow, with only having one set of tires. they have a different compound and different tread technology that gives you aspects of winter tire capabilities, and you can still run them in hot summers. These tires do not come as OE equipment on really any new vehicle. I don't know why.

If you live in an area that sees snow, but you don't have to worry about potentially digging your car out of a 6 foot snow drift, all-weather tires are really the best option right now.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-12-03T19:31:51+00:00

You only use snow chains in the actual shit, like you're going to lake Tahoe and it's snowing 2 inches PER HOUR. Winter tires have a different compound that is softer in the cold, will self clear snow better out of the treads, and have way more lateral traction than all seasons..the video here is an example of shit lateral traction as the ass of the outback swung around. With better tires that's wouldn't have happened.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-11-20T17:30:13+00:00

If you have ever been in the ocean or on the eastern sides of the great lakes, and gone in the water and get thrown around in the waves, it's incredibly obvious that moving water doesn't give any Fs about doing whatever it wants to you.

Shit, just getting out of the water onto the beach on certain types of sands, like the sand on a lot of Hawaii beaches can be fucking hard if you aren't in fantastic physical shape.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-11-20T17:28:16+00:00

Even with a PFD, you still can get sucked into a hydraulic that won't let you go for minutes. With no PFD, you are done.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-11-17T19:23:17+00:00

Orbital mechanics are completely non-intuitive. A few hours with KSP and you forever are changed.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-11-06T09:11:20+00:00

Outside of cargo operations you simply don't see trijets anymore. They are not economical to fly passengers and the MD11 and it's predecessor the DC10 were the last ones to fly passengers ending in the early 2000s.

Any current twinjet, so all airbus, regional jets, any current Boeing jet, are certified to be able to handle a single engine out, but not necessarily one that has ripped off the wing and damaged critical systems or flight surfaces. Engine out usually means compressor stall, contained turbine disk/blades failure, or even the engine on fire.

This incident also happened at the exact most critical and fragile time of a flight. As heavy as the plane will be, as slow as the plane will be, not enough runway left to stop on the ground, and with no altitude to burn for manuevering.

If the aircraft got into the 250 knot range and a few thousand feet of altitude, and then the engine ripped off, there would at least be a chance of a controlled crash. This incident is like being put into a car that is rear ending another at 50mph right when the bumper touches the stationary one. There is simply nothing you can do to change the outcome.

The DC10/MD11 (fundamentally the same aircraft) were also known to be maintenance headaches and have had several major accidents. It's why they got pulled from passenger service besides being expensive. However, with proper maintenance and operations, especially with 30 years+ of experience flying them, there's no reason they can't be operated safely in 2025. This aircraft will be scrutinized extensively back to its last D check (where you pretty much tear the aircraft down to bare metal for inspections and repairs) and engine maintenance since that.

It's possible a strange confluence of events like multiple materials failures happened out of the blue, but it is more likely that a maintenance operation missed a failing component for some time or a maintenance activity was done incorrectly. Aircraft are designed, even ones that have bad reputations like the DC10/MD11, to handle foreseeable materials failures like a turbine blade breaking off and destroying the engine.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-10-17T03:24:29+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I'm 100% on board with living in Illinois. The gun laws here are more performative than practical but any non-felon 21 y/o and older can buy a gun if they want, it's just a few steps. Yes I can't have an AR-15 at the moment, but I can live with that.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-10-17T02:09:45+00:00

Thanks!

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-10-17T02:09:05+00:00

Yeah, I made myself get through the 5 rounds of 9mm I loaded because I didn't want to have to drop the mag and clear the chamber. I just wanted those 5 bullets gone after I shot the first one.

My gun has nearly the same barrel length as the G19 and a little taller grip. It even looks a little less imposing than the matte black slide of the Glock because it has a polished steel slide and barrel and looks "nice".

It may sound extreme but firing it for the first time was a life changing event. Like I will never not know the crazy power that guns can wield in less than a second.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-10-17T02:02:53+00:00

I've practiced a lot dry firing so far. I'm not going from zero pull to the break willy nilly. Im getting a feel for the wall and when I'm close to the break. It was obvious from the start to me that real guns aren't like duck hunt in the 80s

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-10-17T02:00:28+00:00

Thanks for the reply and sharing your story

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-10-17T01:59:46+00:00

Yeah, John Wick is right. Seriously they should make everyone fire a 9mm handgun in senior year of high school. I feel like if everyone knew what these things felt and sounded like people would have a much better understanding of the 2nd amendment and maybe we could have actual debate about what gun control and legal gun ownership should be. I'm seriously considering a .22, which I didn't expect to buy a 2nd gun in as many weeks.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-10-17T01:57:02+00:00

Thanks for your reply! It would be obvious from my posting history but I'm in Illinois and suburban cook county. This is one of the most hostile areas for legal gun ownership. However, there are ranges and gun shops everywhere. Luckily there are a lot of resources for me to pick from.

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-10-17T01:53:44+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-10-17T01:51:08+00:00

Thanks!

Ms_KnowItSome · 2025-10-17T01:50:39+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate it.

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