Weird SVX -Tribeca connection

[n00b on demand]

Originally Posted by TomsSVX

I saw 3 today when I was on the road... also got a nice nod from a gentleman in a legacy outback...

Tom

I always get stares from people with 300 ZX's and people with old school Subaru's

[benebob]

I guess since Central PA is one of the top markets for Subaru that the buyers here suprisingly have something that is lacking elsewhere... TASTE!!! I'd definately feel differently had the Tribeca come out 6 years ago as a trendsetter. Instead, it came out looking like a bad example of a Murano or Lexus RX 5 years after the basic design was established.

[Boxer6SVX]

I dont mind the tribeca. i think it served as being the first to have the new front styling... but %&*@ if they didnt screw up the 06 Model Year WRX... wow its ugly

[It's Just Eric]

It seems to me that every car that subaru put the boxer 6 in has been a sales failure. I have seen ONE tribeca on the road since they came out. they arent bad looking for what they are.I have also only seen ONE LL Bean outback with the 6 in it. And if I didnt live so dman close to other members, and have one in my driveway, I probly would have never seen an svx. I see like 17892364 wrx's every day, and for some reason I dislike that they are synomous with Subaru.

[Boxer6SVX]

Well as for the Boxer 4.. They sound like theyre missing on a cylinder and with a performance exhaust they sound like my dads john deere tractor... why turbo a little 4 when you can have the brute of a 6. So much smoother than the Boxer 4 and the 90* V's

Not to mention that if you look around online and do a search you will find that there have been boxer 2,4,6,8,12's and even a 16 cylinder.

[Boxer6SVX]

From Wikipedia, the community-written free encyclopedia. A flat-12 is an internal combustion engine in flat configuration, having 12 cylinders.

Few examples are known. Porsche ran some tests with a flat-12 version of the Porsche 917, but the flat-12 was never raced.

The 917/30 was one of the most powerful sports cars ever built. The 5.4 liter 12 cylinder could produce 1500 bhp with twin turbochargers attached though it usually raced with around 1100bhp to preserve the engine. The 917/30 dominated in the Can-Am series. The 917/30 could go from 0-60 mph in about 2.1 seconds with a top speed of 238 mph.

Obviously boxer engines get quite large and at 1500hp, powerful for only 5.4 Liters

[Boxer6SVX]

If a flat 6 wont sell then i guess a flat 16 wont either right? lol

From a 1969 Porsche 917.. 5 liters and 1000hp

[TomsSVX]

Originally Posted by Boxer6SVX

If a flat 6 wont sell then i guess a flat 16 wont either right? lol

From a 1969 Porsche 917.. 5 liters and 1000hp

I got one of those... still trying to figure out what to do with it

Tom

[svxsubaru1]

I see alot of tribecas. I really dont think that they were a sales failure either, i definilty think subaru was expecting to sell more, but i think there at about 50% if not more of what subaru thought they were going to produce.

[benebob]

The XT6 wasn't a failure in the least. About 40k produced over 3 years (no 90s) and that was at the end of the line for the body style with a wopping price tag of $17800 for a fwder in 1988.

[SVXer95]

Originally Posted by Boxer6SVX

If a flat 6 wont sell then i guess a flat 16 wont either right? lol

From a 1969 Porsche 917.. 5 liters and 1000hp

Thought that looked familiar.....Just saw it in the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart a few weeks ago.