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Alaska Mike said:
Subaru Build quality must have taken a crap or they must have beat that Subaru. We use Legacy wagons for survey crew vehicles as do a number of other surveying firms around here. We used to average 25-30,000 miles a year per car and that whole time it was filled with rebar,railroad spikes, wood stakes, tripods, total stations and other survey gear and 2 if not 4 guys. Since they are company cars they don't get the care a personal vehicle does (I remember one crew used the brakes to the point where the shoes were gone- not worn out but completely gone- the piston was all that was left bearing on the disc)and we drive them in all sorts of conditions and places a car should never go(because if you can drive to the setup that means you didn't need to backpack all that gear in...) We usually buy them used with about 80k on them and use them for 4-5 years and then sell them off.
I was skeptical at first but they really do well and delivered 25mpg the whole time, maintenance costs were also much less than the 4X4 trucks they replaced.
