felipe01forester

I'll bet. My old Volks could also drive through about a foot of water, too. In fact, my dad told me a story about the Great Ice Storm of '78 (a Dallas legend). His little Bug was the only car that could make it up a glazed-up hill. Unfortunately, an idiot in a Ford Escort cut me off and now the Volks is a small metal cube, may it rest in pieces. The Forester, however, works wonders in the torrential rain we get here, and I can't wait to get it out on the ice when the time comes.

I wish it snowed more here in Dallas. We get about two days of snow a year. Before I got my Forester, I was driving a '69 Volkswagen Beetle that was slip-sliding all over the place. I have yet to drive my Forester in what little snow we get down here.

Will the lifts for the 03 work on the 01s? I've been searching all over for lifts for an 01.

Oh, boy... do I have a story for y'all... This happened fairly recently (early October 2004) After a school football game (I'm in the marching band), me and a pal (whom I shall call Ron) decided to go off roading because the game was rained out. I drive an 01 Forester, however, Ron drives a humongous 89 Dodge Ram Charger with 34" tires and an 8" lift. Far superior. Anyway, we begin by driving down an abandoned railroad bed. Mind you, this is at around midnight, and we are within Dallas city limits. We had to be careful. There was an area of the railroad bed that was full of overgrown weeds and such. Ron dared me to drive it. I took it. I drove down a small trail to the end of the railroad bed where it met a city street. I was going through it pretty well, until my Forester began to slow down and struggle, then stop. I was bogged down. Luckily, Ron has a 5-ton winch on the front of his Ram. He hooks it up, and proceeds to pull me out, but the story doesn't stop there. As he's pulling me out, I spin the tires. Unbeknownst to me, a rock had gotten into the wheel, and when I spun the tires, the rock proceeded to chop off the tire's valve stem. A jet of steam and mud sprays out of the left side of my car. Not good. I pull out the donut, and finally get the tire changed in all that mud and crushed granite, then proceed home at around 2 in the morning. What a night.