My fiance just got her first Subaru: a 2004 Outback Sedan H6 3.0! It's an awesome car, in great shape, and it's only got 86k miles on it, so we're both happy to add this Subie to our family. It's also the fanciest car she's had. Leather, Sunroof, Heated Seats, it's fancier than MY car by a long shot! It will also be a fun project car as there's bound to be more work in store for this car than my new Impreza, though it doesn't look like it needs much to begin with! Either way, I'm fortunate to have a great Subaru community at my fingertips, even just a phone call away, being here in Nebraska. The NSOC is a wonderful resource that I plan to utilize to it's fullest!
While I do have plenty of help available, I don't expect to need it very soon. The car is solid, top to bottom. No accidents, solid construction, interior is in fantastic condition, and it's got that H6 3.0 that Subaru did so well with.
I know she's excited to have this car, but the enthusiast in me is ecstatic about A: having this car in our family and B: having the opportunity to work on it! It's a neat lil' beast with that H6 at it's core and I've always been partial to this generation's design in the first place. Big beefy foglights, the black/chrome headlights (that I can probably clean up), the cladding on the side that makes it look a little tougher, it's a great looking car. Although we're still not quite sure what color it is!
One of my favorite features of it is the WeatherBand Radio! You don't see those anymore on cars and, especially for the storm-chaser in me, having 24/7 access to local weather reports is handy. That, and those computerized voices are funny to listen to sometimes! This is also kind of a rare feature, but there's the option for "OnStar", a GM-based service. Between 1999 and 2005, General Motors owned 20% of the company, so having that system in there is kind of interesting. Probably something we'll never use, but it's nifty to have it.
Regardless, it's a solid car as-is. There's stuff I'll learn as I perform routine maintenance on it, but in general I'm just really proud that we'll start off being "Mr. & Mrs." with two great Subarus!
What do you get when you have All Wheel Drive, a Subaru Rally Team USA t-shirt, and the latest episode of "Launch Control" on your iPod? The urge to find some David Higgins-worthy roads! Well, that's exactly what I did this weekend... and I have no regrets. Sure the traction control and VDC was going nuts and I might have scraped the bottom a few times around some not-so-even roads, but man it's fun having such a capable little car!
I really should've spent this extra time that I had installing the RallyArmor UE flaps that I picked up months ago to help "protect" my car from my adventurous spirit, but truth be told, the dirt roads were much more forgiving than gravel normally is. I never really had found roads quite like these before and, while I'm certain I wasn't supposed to be there and that they'll eventually turn into paved roads for some fancy-pants neighborhood, I seized the carpe and had me a little 100 Acre Wood Rally. 
This past weekend my Fiance and I traveled to a friend's wedding out of town. We both played in a brass quintet for the ceremony. The music was written by the groom, a fantastic musician and longtime friend of ours. From the rehearsal to the tear down at the reception and everything in-between, it was just an all-around good time. I'm really glad we were able to be part of their special day!
Didn't know my Subaru would come in handy until it was time to pack up the sound system from the reception hall. Luckily, we folded the seats down in my Impreza and were able to get the speakers and sound board loaded up and back to the church. The Impreza got us 36.6 mpg total for the 280 mile round trip, so we barely made it past the half-tank mark. A solid ride back and forth meant peace-of-mind so my fiance and I could talk about all the fun we had at their wedding and all the fun we hope to have at ours next year!
