They made big cosmetic changes from 3rd Gen to 4th Gen (current) but they didn’t change the passenger dimensions. Elbow room was tight and back leg room was only suitable for kids. Hope they addressed those. If not, then this change was just another cosmetic one and a waste of time to review.

That little Loyale, 95hp and all, tore the SHIT out of the Cascadia park. There was NO WHERE we could not go, unless it involved boulders. We forded streams, tore down fire roads, crawled very scary single-lane access roads, drafted behind logging trucks and in general crossed that park from corner to corner. On the fourth day it was POURING rain and hail, so we finally gave up on camping and decided to go back to town. On the way, we passed five or six big lifted 4x4s that had spun off the road or just called it quits — not the little Subaru, it took that wet dirt and gravel like a champion.

Now, all you pissy babies with your offended aesthetic sensibilities can whine all you want about rooflines and headlights and all those utterly meaningless things which are matters of pure taste… I’ll just think about how my brother passed that Loyale on to another owner with 142k on the clock, and it is still running to this day as a farm truck (rear hatch permanently removed) at some farm outside of Williamette.

No, that other Subaru pretend-wagon that looks like a mini-SUV does not count.