i did like the higher seating position, but would've been even better if it had power seats, so you could adjust it a bit more. from the high seating position, it was a bit hard to see the tops of the gauges, which were not much angled upwards, and have a sort of a "hood" which comes pretty far outwards, thus hindering the vision further. my wife also commented on that. The design looked nice, but was not functional.
don't know how te Outback cockpit is...never sat in one.
does the forrester come with a 6-cyl. engine at all?
I'm now 100% satisfied with the camera, when I think i got it for $189 when the MSRP was $329 (it was an "older" KonicaMinolta Dimage Z10; 3.2 MP model with 8x opt. zoom when I got it at a clearence sail at Newegg; I opted for more optical zoom, and less MP's..3.2 is more than enough for my needs, as I can see now)
..all those pics are autofocus with the standard settings in all categories, i can only imagine how it looks with fine and vivid color settings and manual spot focus and sharpness adjustments etc...
perhaps I'll experiement more with those settings soon...