Any of you with an LA Times web site login (it is free, no spam) should check out Dan Neil's review of the Tribeca B9. He loved it, and his many good points set aside my fears about the SUV.

Here's the link:

http://www.latimes.com/classified/au...-home-highway1

I'll wait and see what sort of financing they have, but we'll be in the market for a people-mover in Spring next year and this might well be it.

 

this is so true of us...LOL:

"The company catalog is full of weirdly proportioned, arrhythmic and lumpy products such as the Forester and the Baja, whose camp-stove aesthetic appeals to Subaru buyers' sense of personal authenticity. Subie loyalists are a countercultural lot — the company likes to think of them as "inspired pragmatists," though I think of them as liberals — who have little interest in signing on to what mainstream America thinks is cool or sexy."

 

My Forester is a "lumpy product"?

 

Sorry you had to hear it here, man, it's true. Most of the Subaru line up is well described as lumpy! lol

 

I sat in it at a local car expo and it was very nice inside. Very posh and comfortable; stylish too.

 

Only problem is the new Subaru's goofy looking corporate center grill. Rumors is that the new STi will have something similar. Subaru must have hired their own Chris Bangle (BMW designer).

 

That goofy grille is to pay tribute to Subaru's aeronautical roots.

It's still goofy though.

 

Rumor? Have you not visited the homepage lately?

 

I just dropped something subaru shaped in the toilet then.

 

being different is a good thing

 

not when you look at the tribeca... it looks like a POS. the designers used to design for alfa romeo... so thusly that is the reason behind the horrible front end...

chile