During any sort of snow event, Subarus are always the first to hit the guardrails or end up in a ditch.
That's one thing that does frustrate me. They market the cars as being good in weather. Sure, you're less likely to get stuck in a parking lot with AWD but what stops you from getting in a wreck in the snow is good tires. Unless you get one of the wilderness models, the tires that come on them are definitely not proper for snow.
It seems here lots of Subaru drivers are the "belt and suspenders" types, running snow tires and going slow!
That would not be true, assuming your number is correct. It's just the age demographic that owns Outbacks and where there are driven.
Yes, but everyone could drive with less risks, which would reduce deaths/injuries by quite a bit. Just goes to show that the driver still matters a lot.
Mrs.pablo nailed it !
That might be a side effect of the power. I'd say for those buying even just the Long Range models are likely buying the fastest/quickest cars they've ever owned, especially if they're not typically performance car buyers. Without that love for it, there may be a lack of respect for the power by just not understanding how quick it really is.
Maybe, but I think it's pretty safe to say most Tesla buyers didn't buy it as their first car and due to cost I'd be looking at comparably priced vehicles they would have owned before it. I thought there were a couple of studies showing that the newest adopters to EVs were previous BMW, Mercedes, and Audi owners. I used to have 10 year old Jags if that counts.
It probably is, that doesn't make people driving it like an a-hole right. That's really the only point I'm trying to make. If a person wants to beat on a car they should do it at a track, not on a roadway where they can kill innocent people. I guess my age is starting to show.
I'd be curious to see how that breaks down not of total buyers, but percentage of those manufacturers buyers. I have a feeling the way that breaks down that BMW at 6.7% would be a much higher percentage of their overall sold cars than Toyota.
Camry and accord drivers going from double digit 0-60s to sub 5 really quick
True, but 6.6 to 4.2 for a Long Range is pretty dramatic.
Instrumented testing has the Accord at nonhybrid Accord with the 192-hp turbocharged 1.5-liter four-cylinder went from 0–60 mph in 7.3 seconds while the faster 204-hp Accord hybrid's 0–60 time was 6.5 seconds.
All depends on how old their last Accord was. If was say a 2014, there were models that barely broke 10 seconds.
I think you are loosing the forest for the trees. Toyota and Honda owners are moving in the metric ton to tesla.
