2009 Subaru Forester

20/07/2008 02:58. It is in the land of the ice and snow that Subaru has made its name. With the rather embarrassing exception of the Subaru Baja, this is a Snowbelt brand, a brand for literature professors at the University of New Hampshire (shout-out, Durham!); for women's studies majors at Cornell, and their girlfriends; for log cabin-dwelling, geothermal-energy start-up entrepreneurs in eastern Oregon who think that plaid Woolrich jackets are evening wear and that Trader Joe's Two-Buck Chuck is grand cru.

Smart people. Interesting people. People who can see their breath in the air. And Canadians.

And thus the new Subaru Forester's exclusive, distinctive and truly strange "Road Surface Freezing" warning indicator. Back where I'm from, we used to call them "thermometers."

My point is, if you live in... // DetNews.com