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SUVs BMW X3 & X5 BMW X3 vs Subaru Forester XT vs Infiniti FX 35 vs Toyota RAV4
1193 messages, Last post on Apr 18, 2008 at 2:49 PM
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Well, to be fair, your XT has had the benefit of decades of engineering advances. Let's not take anything away from a car that basically created the entire sports sedan segment. In a lot of ways I have more respect for that 2002 than I do for the new Bimmers. It was light, simple, back-to-basics, and nothing was on it that didn't make it go faster. -juice
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BTW, congrats, and please join us in the Subaru Crew threads under Owners Clubs right here on Edmunds.com. -juice (founder and Crew Chief of the Subaru Crew) |
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<crickets chirping> Nice to know I have one whole fan.  -juice |
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Replying to: ateixeira (Aug 13, 2004 10:31 am) That is absolutely right, of course. The basic engineering of the BMW 2002 was set in the mid-60s with the 1600 series. But the holistic comparison for me is not completely specious. When I bought my bimmer, the folks in Bavaria were known for Spartan sports sedans. BMW drivers drove them aggressively. They waved and flashed their lights at each other. Like you said, this "created the entire sports sedan segment." Then, about the time old hippies like me grew into yuppies and started making money, the whole BMW line shifted upscale toward the carriage trade. If you waved at another yuppie in a 3-Series, he just wondered who you were. In a way I feel like I've gone back to my roots with the Subaru XT. I simply love to drive it! p.s. I wish I still had the 2002, too. Nineteen years was not enough.
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It's funny because the Subaru crowd has grown, and a lot, since the WRX arrived for 2002. So I feel like that's happened a little bit with Subaru as well. When I first got my '98 Forester, most Impreza owners back then understood we shared the 2.5l boxer. Nowadays some WRX owners don't even want to acknowledge that. -juice |
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Replying to: ateixeira (Aug 13, 2004 12:13 pm)
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7.x for an automatic with no brake-torqueing, perhaps. Manuals are just a tick or two behind the F-XT. I think the benchmark time for a WRX is 5.4 seconds or so. -juice |
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Anyone specifically cross-shopping the Forester XT against the X3? Steve, Host
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 21, 2005 8:08 am) |
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