Subaru Forester, anyone?

All the sifus out there......i m plannin to get a forester soon but i
really need to know whether are there any mojor problems with the car?
for example the maintenence of the car is it very costly or the
parts.....just saw one yesterday in PJ at a used car dealer but sold b4 i
could even lay my hands on it.....sold at 72k....i guess the price is
pretty ok.....it's a pearl blue or purple and it has 116k km on
it.....totally stock standard....pretty nice car....anyway, anyone here
knows are there any for sale rite now?

My friend is also looking at buying one, 1998 model. Tested the car. It
goes like rocket and doesn't feel so....Nice

hmmm

it's not massively fast, feels more like a milder merc E280. no turbo lag
for stock model.

watch out for the gearbox.

Buy only if they have maintainence record.

Skip the models with solid rear panel glass, they are very expensive to
replace with clear ones....

There are only a few workshops which can service this car competently. It
should not be a problem if you do preventive maintainence.

RM$72k/= is dirt cheap. suspect problem-lah.check carefully because there
were a few 'TOTALED' unit...dun remember their license plate no., most
famous one was totaled in massive multi pile up in rawang interchange.

there is a local user group on the net.....do a search U should be able to
find them.....they are in a word helpful.

Possum Bourne died in one (New Zealand), he is a top rated rally driver in
Oz.

Accident stories is FYI, and absolutely meant to make you shit in your
pants.

A good car doesn't make u invincible on the road no matter how fast it
goes.

If you can afford it always buy new, RM$15X,XXX or something. At least u
get a limited warranty. And the new model looks miles better.