Subaru is a special company, building nearly half of its global production in Indiana and with a set of morals that respects its diverse customers and ever-growing number of employees. That’s super, but that doesn’t explain the specialness of the company’s iconic Outback, which is as inseparable from Subaru as Mickey from Walt or the Beetle from Volkswagen. [...]

Subaru’s most famous wagon is the Outback. Launched in the ‘90s with catchy ads featuring Crocodile Dundee’s Paul Hogan, the car hit during the rise of the SUV boom. It didn’t hurt that it found popularity with a dedicated bunch of lesbians in the northeast, causing Subaru to reach out to our community like no other automaker. All great, but that’s not the car we’re reviewing here. Meet the Outback’s crossover sibling, the Forester. [...]

It was either by coincidence or divine love of the underdog that I happened to have the Subaru Legacy 3.6R the same weekend I was planning to tour the National Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Indiana. Not only is the Subaru brand beloved by our community, but also the car is built in Lafayette, just 45 minutes north of Indianapolis. It felt right at home on Hoosier highways. [...]

As I thanked and reluctantly said goodbye to my hosts after driving the 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, I came to a grateful conclusion: it all could have been so cliched, but it wasn’t. [...]

Over three days in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, we put two versions of the 2013 Subaru Outback through their paces on the road and in the sand dunes. Our goal? To explore the cars’ limits and to test the EyeSight driver-assist system. [...]