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Message: <blockquote data-quote="emapples" data-source="post: 3850772" data-attributes="member: 11752"><p>Well that 2010 Outback is worth the repairs, it it’s in good shave I’d buy it with no reverse and have it fixed (They are ALL CVT today) Quality has taken a few hits due to several issues.  1) being built in America and more importantly the downfall of our culture 2) engines have looser tolerances so that they have less friction and use less gas in theory).  But I can tell you the cars built in Japan are built better than ones built here.  (“There are only a few still built over there). 4 Runner is one, I think the Forrester is another, different culture different results.  Some companies just suck building reliable cars.   And Toyota has pretty much carried the Torch for everyone, before they came along and when I was a kid, when your car hit 100K it was worn out and needed to be replaced.  That started to change in the late 80’s and 90’s with these over engineered 22RE yota’s.  I have had mulitple Toyotas well into the 200K range 245, 239, 276, with just routine maintenance.  We have our first new car that wasn't a Toyota 2 years ago it‘s a Subaru Outback XT I will let you know in 10 years if it measures up, it’s an oddly capable and effecient SUV but I would have loved to have been able to buy it with a 6 speed</p></blockquote><p></p>