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I think Subarus are among the best cars in the world. I owned one, and loved it, though I do not own one now. I am a Reagan conservative. I have no use for liberals or their agenda. The next car I buy will probably be a Subaru Forester.
As a conservative, I am careful with my money. I want value for my hard earned cash. I would never waste between $20,000 to $30,000 on some shoddily built Detroit 3 POS. The only makes of car I would ever consider would be Subaru, Toyota, or Honda.
I marked independant for the poll but I'm pretty conservative, maybe just embarrased to have a label these days.
My wife and I have both owned Subarus. In Alaska. Being a car guy, who always hated getting stuck behind those damn subarus, after flourishing through several Alaskan winters in them I'd say the car itself doesn't deserve any political branding. They work well.
Having said that, the majority of my subaru owning friends that don't drive them competitevly lean towards the left. My car friends that own subarus likely scare the bejebus out of them.
I think much of the loyalty to Subaru was formed in the 70's during the oil crisis when they were known for great gas mileage and dependability (green machines). Seems like people who bought them then were inclined to buy them over again and again, remembering the first one they drove when in high school. Some of those folks and their kids are Liberals and some are now Conservatives. They all continue to identify with Subaru. We had 2 of them. One was an '85 and the other was an '87. They were pretty average cars with little power and they required a lot of work. The timing belt was constantly breaking on one of them. The head gaskets failed in the other one. They both leaked a lot of oil.
Mrs. NBP has a Forrester. She is just a tad more conservative now (keeping in mind that when we met she was wearing an Equal Rights Amendment bracelet) than Attila the Hun's second wife.
I have heard this stereotype bandied about for years but is it true?
Do Subaru owners really tend to be "left-wing, tree-hugging, granola-crunching liberals"?
Here in Alaska, I routinely see the "stereotypical" stickers (i,.e. - Coexist, Obama/Biden, the "Darwin fish", Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund, and various other liberal/progressive and pro-environment bumper stickers, etc.) but I also see Subarus bearing vanity plates for retired veterans as well as NRA and various military association stickers.
So, to all you Subaru owners, where do you stand and what are your observations?
Well here Subaru owners are pegged as "bird people". The have life lists, backpack binoculars, tuck their neutral color pant legs into dark socks, and so on.
I was shopping for a car in Ithaca, NY ("Nine Square Miles Surrounded By Reality"), and one of the dealers said "We like our Subarus here".
So yeah. I just have one because it was the best $11,000 used car I could find, but the whole All-Wheel Drive thing embarrasses me. Like I can't go to the store for a six-pack without All Wheel Drive? It has Sissy written all over it.
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