I’ve been saying this for years. Cmon Subaru! You can do it!

@@j_mars_cars Sadly Subaru is dead just making boring SUV, no more STI. My 24 years old Legacy B4 RSK is faster than the new WRX.

@@skippylegrandgourou2069 Don't get rid of that gem.

Hard market, this is the last year of the maverick.

@@skippylegrandgourou2069 it’s a sad thing. People aren’t into cars like they used to be.

Subaru could use the current Outback platform, stretch it out a few inches.

@@jonathansmith1590 even that costs millions upon millions that Subaru simply doesn’t have the resources or capacity to do. Unless it’s a joint venture with Toyota, I’d expect no new products from Subaru.

They totally could, with the Hyundai Santa Cruz and the ford maverick. It’d be a shoe in for today’s market

I know right? It'd sell like hotcakes if they did bring it back!

@@haroldbeauchamp3770 That makes sense 🤔🤷.

I think they’re trying. We’re in the beginning of another malaise era. Covid killed vehicle production and now the microchip shortage. There’s little incentive to spend billions designing new vehicles that they can’t mass produce cheaply and quickly. Combine that with pressure to eliminate ICE vehicles leaves manufacturers without incentive to build cheap, small, economical utes as these.

Buy an NA and stuff an Outback 3.0L motor innit. JDM 3.0s can be had for

You have an 06 Subaru dealership at home haha

😂😂😂 Subarus aren't too popular where I live so I've gotten them all super cheap. Win win 😉

any plan of 06 forester?

My brother owns a 05 forester that he got from me 😂

If only they made an 06

Yes. I have owned many subarus including a baja, but have never had one with a cvt and never will.

Lmao. Beat me to it

@@haroldbeauchamp3770 early 2000s Subarus are IYKYK type vehicles. LOL

Only a true Japanese sadist would design such faulty head gaskets on an engine where you can barely even replace them without pulling the whole motor out.

Subaru head gasket? wow hahahahha that’s hilarious man I haven’t heard that one ten billion times before

The turbos didn't really have that issue, mainly the N/A, the turbos used MLS head gaskets, a few turbos did fail but it was much rarer, and everyone complains about having to pull the motor out to do it, I pulled my 04 forester na motor out in 45 minutes alone with difficult bolts (thankfully none snapped) and no air-impact or fire. Not that hard if you are careful and can follow some youtube videos

210hp from a 2.5 turbo was pathetic even then. And the cherry on top is the fact that it was still somehow unreliable.

@@kirbyswarp the EJ255 was more reliable than the EJ253. You have No idea what you're talking about guy.

@@artilleryisbetter These are far from reliable. Even if they were, I'd hope so at 84hp/liter on a turbocharged engine. That's just pathetic.

​@@kirbyswarp the baja turbo is about low end torque and response more than anything, you know the typa thing you'd want in an off road environment? but you've most likely never thought of that because ur probably the typical 2022 "car guy" starter pack who lets horsepower decide the entire car

​@@kirbyswarpHow to say "I've never driven nor owned this car" without saying "I've never driven nor owned this car"

That's so cool! Would love to have that setup.

​@@ytman6203 I have one for sale.

Aerodynamics and safety

Was that ever a time? I can remember vehicles in the 70s were massive. I was too young in the 60s to remember if they were smaller then.

@@haroldbeauchamp3770 i think he means the grille trend now in use.

@@blue_lancer_es Yes, that's exactly what I meant.

Yes Subaru! Release another Baja soon!

I delivered a DoorDash order to a guy who had three Bajas. Two yellow turbos, and a silver NA.

It’s a Subaru, so yes, someone has

Sadly no, its only like 2 feet wide, good for lumber and stuff, the whole bed is only 49" Wide and 41.5" Long with the switchback closed, but the tailgate down has helped me quite a lot, and I've gotten plenty enough use out of it for my uses, lawnmowers, gas cans, anything dirty that I don't want inside a car, brush, recycling, trash, moving, grills, tools, engine hoist, etc. in the winter time I've kept drinks in the back when going to get togethers, so they are cold when I get there and they don't move around as much because the bed is smaller than a normal pickup, If the back seat is flipped forward and the back rest is kept up in place, I fit my 55" TV in the backseat when I bought it lol

The video is from 2004 so there's that.

The USDM line up was not amazing compared to the Japanese and European versions, no sti Forester & Legacy, no twin turbo legacy, no justy, levorg. I agree Subaru is so boring, they even kill the Impreza STI.

@@skippylegrandgourou2069yea but the US got the baja while japan and euro didnt, so we still won

Are you actually bragging about having a 2006 Monte Carlo? 🤣🤣

@@pgo2372 no not at all. Dont see anywhere that looks like bragging in there...Just saying its a 4 cylinder SUT that's almost quick as a V6 sports car from the same era. The monte has a 242hp V6 and 0-60 in 7.0. Its definitely not quick by today's standards, but wasn't bad in 2006.

Is it the one Hoovie bought? lol

@@Mr.Corinthians No.

The baja is just a chopped legacy wagon, the outback and legacy had slightly different front ends. The motor being a detuned wrx motor and the suspension makes this thing a bit complicated to get parts for lol, searching baja doesn't yield as many results as desired

Update, just re-searched that info and am not quite correct, I forget they named it the Legacy Outback Wagon back then so yes you are correct

@@hunterbigelow9327 Really, I thought 🤔 so.

@@hunterbigelow9327 OK

Show me who asked?

@@trumpsmum9210 i did u doorknob

@@buss1205 ok bussnob

I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body and I own a Baja.

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it drives like a wrx, its literally almost identical to one chassis wise

They had the brat before the avalanche

They copied the 2001 Ford Explorer Sport Trac that came out a year before the Baja.

Yeah but this is 5x the car thr PT is

@@senseicorey9979 not the GT. Good try

Hideous where? Have you not seen a pontiac aztec????

@@divin3kag3242 that thing was just as bad as this pos

@@senseicorey9979 saying a Subaru is more of a car than a Chrysler product is a serious stretch. I could smell the oil burning coming from my phone when they were testing this Subaru. 😂