1993 Subaru Loyale L review from North America

Oil pump at 51,500, check engine light comes on a lot, engine checks out good.

This is a tough little car, we live in a rural area with poor roads and lots of snow and mud, this darn car goes through about anything. I've had 4x4 vehicles for over 35yrs. Pick-ups that supposedly go anywhere, other than real deep mud and snow this darn Subaru will follow them. It's excellent on slick roads. I have a Ford Eddie Bauer 4x4 for my wife to drive in the Winter and she will take the Subaru if the roads are real slick. The 4x4 system works great.

We have 4 newer Subaru's in the family and my one son just beats his to death and it just keeps on going, it's an Outback and that's were he takes it, outback in the mountains hunting and fishing.

The only gripes I have with my 93 are seat comfort and economy, it gets 25mpg where as the kids newer Subaru's get about 30mpg, and they're a lot more comfortable. To tell you how tough they are my dad has a 98 Legacy, he is old and can't hear, when he would put it into drive he would hold down on shift lever button and it would go into 2nd gear rather then drive. We heard him coming up our road last Summer and the engine was wound out, he stopped and shut it off when he got to the house. We took dad out and showed him about the shift button, he said he'd done that since it was new! It had about 24k on it.

Then a few weeks later I drove his Subaru over to Seattle, it ran perfect and got 29mpg at 70+.

They're amazing cars.