I just got a new car yesterday. A 1999 Legacy L AWD 2.2 5 speed 30th Anniversary Sedan. I drove it from Asheville, North Carolina home yesterday. What a treat! After driving the Hertz Chevy Malibu all the way down to Asheville driving a car home that you can actually feel the road with was a welcome sensation.

 

The car that will be going "out to pasture" is a 1993 AWD Legacy L 25th Anniversary Wagon 2.2 5 speed.

 

Now, here is where I get a little confused.

 

1999 minus 1993 equals 6

30 minus 25 equals 5

 

So, perhaps Subaru knows something about the real number system I do not cuz if I subtract 5 from 1999 I come up with 1994 or if I add 5 to 1993 I come up with 1998. Perhaps Subaru isn't sure of their annivesary or I am not sure of my math :-)

 

Greg

Well I tried to do some research and this is what I came up with.

 

1968 was Subaru's first year in the USA

The 1st US Subaru was a 360 white 1969 5 door van.

So I guess it just depends what you consider their first year.

I just got a new car yesterday. A 1999 Legacy L AWD 2.2 5 speed 30th Anniversary Sedan. I drove it from Asheville, North Carolina home yesterday. What a treat! After driving the Hertz Chevy Malibu all the way down to Asheville driving a car home that you can actually feel the road with was a welcome sensation.

 

The car that will be going "out to pasture" is a 1993 AWD Legacy L 25th Anniversary Wagon 2.2 5 speed.

 

Now, here is where I get a little confused.

 

1999 minus 1993 equals 6

30 minus 25 equals 5

 

So, perhaps Subaru knows something about the real number system I do not cuz if I subtract 5 from 1999 I come up with 1994 or if I add 5 to 1993 I come up with 1998. Perhaps Subaru isn't sure of their annivesary or I am not sure of my math :-)

 

Greg

ur 99 may have been built in 98 but was called a 99 cuz the yr was just about over,after september they label em the next year.

weren't they the wonderful folks who brought you the Zero or the Oscar and later turned into fuji Heavy Industries?

Well I tried to do some research and this is what I came up with.

 

1968 was Subaru's first year in the USA

The 1st US Subaru was a 360 white 1969 5 door van.

So I guess it just depends what you consider their first year.

It doesn't make a difference what I consider their 1st year, what do they consider their 1st year? and then perhaps stick to it :-) It isn't an earth shattering issue, just kind of funny.

 

Was the van the only 360 offered in 69 or did they have the "pickup" too?

 

Think about that, in 1969 you could order a 4-door Lincoln Continental with a 460 ci engine that weighed in a little less the USS Nimitz or you could be on the same highway in a Subaru 360 that weighed about as much as the power steering pump on the Lincoln! Those first Subaru drivers were an adventerous group!

 

Greg

Think about that, in 1969 you could order a 4-door Lincoln Continental with a 460 ci engine that weighed in a little less the USS Nimitz or you could be on the same highway in a Subaru 360 that weighed about as much as the power steering pump on the Lincoln!

That was hiliarous!