Comments on: A Shiny White Upgrade http://www.cgkreality.com/2008/02/25/laura-gets-a-new-car-thank-god/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:22:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Chris http://www.cgkreality.com/2008/02/25/laura-gets-a-new-car-thank-god/#comment-103 Chris Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:37:40 +0000 http://www.cgkreality.com/2008/02/25/laura-gets-a-new-car-thank-god/#comment-103 <p>Yup, its by far one of the most confusing naming conventions for a car line I've ever seen. Oh well, not much that can be done with it other than to live with it :)</p> Yup, its by far one of the most confusing naming conventions for a car line I’ve ever seen. Oh well, not much that can be done with it other than to live with it :)

]]> By: Deborah Robson http://www.cgkreality.com/2008/02/25/laura-gets-a-new-car-thank-god/#comment-102 Deborah Robson Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:52:22 +0000 http://www.cgkreality.com/2008/02/25/laura-gets-a-new-car-thank-god/#comment-102 <p>I recently bought a Subaru, and the company has done no one any favors with its naming conventions.</p> <p>It took me <em>forever</em> (well, not really . . . I managed) to figure out all the Impreza/Outback/Legacy configurations and make sense of the diferent offerings, especially because they have changed from year to year. So yeah, there's an Outback, and there's also a trim line of the Impreza that's called Outback. It almost drove me around the bend and toward a different make of car altogether. (Fortunately, there is not an Impreza trim line on the Outback models. That probably would have tipped me right over the cliff.)</p> <p>In a silly result of all this, what I bought was, as far as I can tell and the literature indicates, an "Outback Outback," or the base trim line of what used to be a Legacy Outback, but isn't any more, it's just an Outback. . . .</p> <p>I got to where I wished they just used numbers to differentiate the cars! 1 = smallest car model, 1a = base trim line, 1b = next trim level up, and so on.</p> I recently bought a Subaru, and the company has done no one any favors with its naming conventions.

It took me forever (well, not really . . . I managed) to figure out all the Impreza/Outback/Legacy configurations and make sense of the diferent offerings, especially because they have changed from year to year. So yeah, there’s an Outback, and there’s also a trim line of the Impreza that’s called Outback. It almost drove me around the bend and toward a different make of car altogether. (Fortunately, there is not an Impreza trim line on the Outback models. That probably would have tipped me right over the cliff.)

In a silly result of all this, what I bought was, as far as I can tell and the literature indicates, an “Outback Outback,” or the base trim line of what used to be a Legacy Outback, but isn’t any more, it’s just an Outback. . . .

I got to where I wished they just used numbers to differentiate the cars! 1 = smallest car model, 1a = base trim line, 1b = next trim level up, and so on.

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