The Beverly Hillbilly Special, I believe the package is called.Īll that matters very little when you have a 500-mile drive with a 1,000-pound trailer and a 50-pound puppy to haul. Our Crosstrek piled on the extras too: a 6.2-inch multimedia display with Bluetooth, subwoofer, heated seats and trailer hitch with 4-pin connector. That’s enough room to fit a closet full of clothes, a TV, three backpacks, a dog and some snacks purchased in a daze from Harmon’s near the interstate. The most useful statistic: Seats down, the XV Crosstrek manages 51.9 cubic feet of cargo room, which is less than a Jeep Cherokee and Kia Sportage, but more useful considering its wide rear opening and fold-down seats. So, appropriate five-speed manual to tow, and fully commanding all 148 horses powered by the Subaru’s horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine, I set off along Interstate 80. You’d think buyers would want to wring every last drop of horsepower from the busy little mill. That’s counter-intuitive for a car that has earned a rep for having less strength than the League of Nations. As the automaker celebrates its most successful sales month ever for the Crosstrek in July (more than 8,500 sold in the U.S., nearly three times as many BMW X3s sold in the same timeframe) exceedingly fewer and fewer of them are of the row-your-own variety. Interestingly, very few Crosstreks are purchased with a manual transmission. 6 south of Price has all the visual charm of a sopping wet bath mat. I wasn’t concerned with the Crosstrek’s performance as much as I was worried about my patience: U.S. To be fair, I’ve driven an XV Crosstrek through “Jurassic Park” in Hawaii and another through the middle of Iceland in a blizzard. (In fact, I was moving my girlfriend over the Rockies and into Denver, in the least likely tow vehicle imaginable.) You could say I was partially retracing Eisenhower’s steps on his formative journey, but I would say I was putting the Crosstrek through the toughest test I could imagine - hauling a 1,000-pound, loaded U-haul over the Rockies. (At least my five-speed manual, five-door compact wagon was a hue Subaru called “Desert Khaki,” a color resembling a faded, fatigue greenish-brown. I could manage 80 miles an hour in the diminutive hatchback with 148 horsepower - which likely has more horsepower than the entire 1919 convoy. In Utah, Eisenhower reported the convoy of 80 vehicles took 7.5 hours to do 15 miles in near-biblical sand in lieu of bad roads. … Reduced morale.”Īdmittedly, my journey in a 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek would be less dramatic. … Personnel utterly exhausted by tremendous efforts, and will rest at Black Point. No rain for 18 weeks and traction exceedingly difficult,” Eisenhower wrote in his journal. … Last 6 miles was natural desert trail of alkali dust and fine sand up to 2 (feet) deep, with numerous chuckholes. The going was relatively easy until Kansas, but the hardest part, he wrote, came in Utah. to San Francisco, Eisenhower traversed the Lincoln Highway over 62 days. Eisenhower embarked on a transcontinental journey with a military convoy to show off to the country the mechanical might used to conquer the Kaiser.įrom Washington D.C.
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