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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Car Review Column.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2004

By Don Hammonds, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 6--SMALLER FORESTER MAKES SOME BIGGER SUVS LOOK FOOLISH: In some of the worst winter weather ever, the 2004 Subaru Forester 2.5 XT Premium Package All Wheel Drive got me wherever I wanted to go. To work. To church. To the grocery store.

You may be thinking that any four-wheel or all-wheel drive would have

done the same. You'd be wrong. I remember one SUV in particular that I couldn't back up the hill without sliding all over the place -- in 1 inch of snow. With full-time all-wheel drive!

My little Forester was up against it, believe me. I was parked on that same hill that we call "dead man's corner." Thanks to drifts and being plowed in, the snow...

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