Road Test: Subaru B9 Tribeca

Newsweek, August, 2005 by Tara Weingarten

I pull in to the swank Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. There's a Bentley parked in front of me. A Maserati convertible next to it. Ho-hum, just another day in the hotel's showroom--I mean parking lot. Then the jaded valet approaches and gives me a nod. "Nice car," he says. "What is it?"

Forget Subaru's rep as reliable wheels for the Birkenstocks-and-granola crowd. The new B9 Tribeca, Subaru's first foray into the SUV genre, is urban groovy, with contemporary lines inside and out. But it's also competent, with full-time all-wheel drive, a decent 3.0-liter, 6- cylinder, 250-horsepower engine and stability and traction control. It's also an ideal size: big enough to seat seven, but not so gargantuan that it would be impossible to navigate on city streets. Subaru's new 'tude...

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