On the afternoon that our 2020 Subaru Legacy tester was delivered to the Times Free Press offices, rain turned to sleet which then changed over to snow.
“Shouldn’t you head for the mountain?” one of my co-workers asked me about 6 p.m.
“No worries,” I said. “I’m driving a Subaru.”
When it comes to trucks and automobiles, I’ve always been sort of an all-wheel-drive snob. The feeling of sure-footed safety in a Subaru is a blessing when foul weather comes to call in a mountain-surrounded city like Chattanooga.
Indeed our Legacy Limited XT, with standard all-wheel-drive, sprinted up the mountain as if it had on spiked climbing shoes. Actually, had the snow been half a foot deep, the result would have been much the same. For my money, Subbies are the best mass-market snow-cars in the world.