Thread: Subaru Outback - AWD Station Wagon

Hi all,

I'm looking at upgrading my daily driver, I currently do over 1000kms a week so am driving a small car which is great on fuel, but isn't as good for my hobbies and toys.

I was looking at a few different station wagons, later model (08ish) VW Golf and Ford Focus Wagons (petrol and diesel) which seem to be good on fuel, comfortable, reliable and enough room for carrying all my crap, but I really miss having a 4x4/AWD vehicle.
I then came across the Subaru Outback and Legacy models which got me thinking.

Anyone here own a a Subaru Outback or Legacy around 06-09ish? Looks like there are good deals to be found in this year range with about 100,000kms.
Wanting to know if anyone has found them to be exceptionally unreliable/reliable and what they are like on fuel.
I know they are no 4 wheel drives, but they seem to be surprisingly capable offroad and I wouldn't be doing anything extreme anyway.

Or if anyone can recommend something else similar I can be looking into, would be swell.

Cheers