You've probably heard this innumerable times before, but I love how you talk about a car's place in society and our culture, rather than just the car for the car's sake. It's a very human way of looking at things - and also goes a long way to explaining why certain cars are made, and certain others aren't. Particularly interesting was your Chrysler reference and that definitely makes me think a lot about the demise of the Australian automakers. A tragedy in slow motion for someone who grew up in the shadow of the Holden factory...
+HakureiSM .... well it is now, since he has, over the years, cultivated the type of audience that relates to it. So what you say is true. I'm just saying that I personally would prefer to do without it. Clearly he is smart and seems to have a level of education above such talk. He's doing for effect. I suppose you could call it "creative license". That may legitimize it somewhat. I don't mean to sound like a snob, and I'm not trying to demean anyone, but I endeavor to conduct myself without using poop, fart and sexual references constantly.
mercoid This is the bit that sounds snob: "seems to have a level of education above such talk" Why "above"? Why do you consider swearing and sexual implications in language something that's beneath you, and/or beneath those who are educated? The brightest people I know swear a lot, the brightest people I know have no qualms with sexuality and profanity, as they're part of language and expression, and really get the fuckin' point across. I'm gonna make poop, fart and sexual jokes for as long as I live, it's more fun that way, and I don't consider myself lesser for it.
I had an '87 Subaru XT Turbo 4WD, with the same 4WD button in the top of the shifter. That car also had electropneumatic suspension, so you could raise it up for driving in snow. That car was the coolest car ever. Turbo, electronic height adjustability, 4WD at any time by pressing the button in the shifter like you just got the missile launch codes. More than once, I was in the NE of the US in winter, driving on normal streets, then had to go down a road that had only been lightly plowed. Suspension up, punch the gear shifter button like a boss and turn onto the road and make it my bitch. Holy shit I loved that car.
+Vernon Price Had a Subaru Brat from around that year myself. My first 4WD experiences I mad in that car. I was 22 and thought it cinda looked like a small version of a ElCamino when eyes squinted because of the slopet area where the bed sides met the roof line. After a terribly rainy spring me and a buddy took it for a ride thru some forest paths and across a tractor road in between the fields that where ridden with water sickness. It handled the muddy slush like a beast. Later that evening I learned that we where sought after by the cops, because a bank robbery in the nearest town and the villagers called them because it was so suspicious to drive around like that in the the wet and muddy conditions that it was. My father called it The Helicopter. It sounded awful over 40.
+Vernon Price My dad had Leone with the 1.8 turbo. Epic car. Got my life's only speeding ticket for street racing in that thing. A wagon, too. He had a 1.8 non-turbo as well. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE. The turbo was stable, fast as hell (time may have gilded memory) and fun and easy to drift around in winter. The N/A Leone oversteered to a point where it was borderline undriveable and was just incredibly slow.
I had a 4WD turbo XT, 5 spd and same pneumatic suspension as yours! God I miss that car and still occasionally have dreams about it. The digital dash, speed alarm and awesome checkered light blue interior was just so 80'a.
@@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney I didn't even realize I had been watching RCR for 4 years. And when I made this comment I wasn't even new to it. But I have lost my vape pen since. Also they stopped being shaped like pens except weed ones.
I worked one of the worst auctions in the country as an auctioneer way back in 2000. They sold junk, and I mean JUNK! Whatever leaked or fell off the vehicle as it went through the block, the new owner got that too. Long story short, the only car I bought during my two years working there was a 1991 Subaru Loyale. Bought it for $425. Replaced the water pump, and my local Hashers group used it for beer runs. It was perfect, and I mean brutally perfect for fitting cases of beer. Sold it for $2000 to a guy who didn't even bother to test drive it. All he did was ask if it was a good car, ripped off 20 $100 bills, and away he went!
Steve Lang That story reminds me of how I got my first car back in high school. 1999 Dodge Grand Caravan. It was such a dark shade of blue it looked black at first glance. Got it from my grandma for doing manual garden labor for a whole summer. It had 178k miles on it and virtually everyone in my family, brothers, dad, cousins, aunts and uncles, and myself, have used it to move numerous times. Me and my friends used to hotbox the hell out of it every weekend. The speakers in the front were blown out so the sound was always in the back. Will never forget when it got stolen for 3 days. When I got it back only the driver and passenger seat were left and I had to start it with a screw driver for the next 2 years
@@jirehjirehjirehjireh Dang. My parents have a 92 Caravan that also got stolen and recovered. It's three different colors, has a bullet hole in it, and still runs perfectly.
3 years ago. I saw this video come out. I said yo myself "I need one." one month later, 90k miles, 3 speed 4wd, wagon and $800 in my pocket. 3 years later, I still have it with 150k miles and counting. I will never get rid of it... thank you rcr, for I would have never heard of Subaru before 1998
I had an '88 version of that car in college. It really was a great car for getting up to the slopes with 3 of your buddies, all your gear, and tons of weed.
Best review yet. Between the "Missile Button" and the "Dad Joke on 4 Wheels", I was tearing up. Every time I see a Loyale, it makes me smile, for exactly the reasons you stated. This car did everything right in it's time when people saw Subaru as nothing more than that strange Japanese company. As a Subaru enthusiast, The GL and Loyale are classics in the way of modern Japanese vehicles.
I live in New Zealand and during the 90s these were EVERYWHERE, pretty much everyone had one. They were not called a loyale though they were called subaru leone. Then a few years later they disappeared and you won't ever see one anywhere.
The predecessor of this car, the Suburu 1600DL brought me to kindergarden, 20 years later I used it to go to university. The engine was weak and it had flaws, but we had it for 24 years and it never failed. They did several things wrong, but above al these Leon/Loyals were just incredibly strong and reliable machines, with very little gadgets that could fail.
I own a 1986 Toyota Tercel station wagon with the selectable 4 wheel drive and the manual transmission and I love it because it goes threw anything and it was cheep.
I've got a base 06 Impreza 2.5i; and this video will always make me cry. Learning, always yearning, for something better, something from the year I was born, reliable, fwd. You've continuously killed me, and convalesced my goals, and love for reliability, practicality, with this video. Much Love RCR.
There's a nice poetry to the Loyale, that it was followed by the Legacy. It's as if Subaru's saying, "Thanks for all you've done for us, but it's time for us to move on. We won't forget you."
Excellent review! I have a WRX & there's one loyal wagon always parked on a street in town (same random stickers, prob same driver). It's like seeing your grand-pa, you gotta be grateful for the work he put in with the oats and those work horse sales.
+Carlu Yabut A friend had one and that button always was amazing to me. LOL You could go from just about stuck, in a flash away you went with a push of a button.
What we need is one of these but with a Subaru XT under the skin. 6 cylinders of fury and a joystick shifter, concealed under a "boring" wagon. Perfect sleeper.
My father bought a 1983 Subaru GL wagon in Louisiana, a FWD 1.8l CARBORATED station wagon. That wagon stayed with us for 19 years of his United States Air Force service, getting us through the forests of Germany (where it saw the Berlin Wall fall), dried lake beds of California (where the space shuttle lands), Alps of Italy (and Vince, Rome, and the Almafi Coast), and desert of Texas (where no humans should ever be) before he sold it to a college kid. It had 180k+ miles on the clock, and he claims all he had to do to it was replace the clutch plates twice in that span. Reliable, do all, trustworthy service. He has replaced it with a Dodge Stratus, new off the lot, who's transmission shit the bed within a month of ownership. Since then, he has had 4 Subarus, through Anchorage Alaska, Pennsylvania, and now Ohio. One of those, a 2018 6MT Forester, now sits in my driveway, receiving a fresh wash and wax today, as it turns out. I get 31.5mpg during the summer in a 4WD, trailer-pulling, family mover. Here's to Subaru. 😘🍷
Good God, the childhood memories are coming back to me again lol. My parents had an '88 sky blue wagon with the same exact engine, yet auto. The 4WD button on the Autos were right below shift release button. Oh, and don't forget the Rusty Jones sticker on the quarter windows of these cars.
Man I wish I could like this video more than once. RCR is pretty much the only channel that does reviews on the most obscure undesirable shit-mobiles along with the occasional Hellcat or Stingray (maybe besides The Smoking Tire). Good job sir.
+///M Switching into 4wd at speed puts a ton of strain on the transfer case, which is something you don't want to be replaced. Pretty sure the manual states not to shift into or out of 4wd above 20 mph.
+TinPinFTW The older GL Wagons and the oddly stripped base hatchback (which had shared the same front grille design as the Brat) had a large paddle/mechanical lever that you had to pull upwards to engage 4WD. In the newer design in this wagon had an electronic switch on the handle to prevent any damage to the coupling so such damage wouldn't happen.
not true our family has a few of these and you can drive these as fast as you like engage 4wd when ever you like as long as your in loose conditions and your wheels are straight. if your wheels aren't straight the 4wd wont engage i have 230k on my 86 gl and my dad has 245k on his loyale . you are not gonna break shit i have taken mine 50 mph in 4wd in the snow didnt harm a thing
IF your Loyale is equipped with the electronic 4x4 (Like the one in the video), NOT the manual 2/4 transfer case shifter. then the owners manual explicitly states you can "Engage the 4x4 at anytime, any speed." The rear diff and drive shaft are always spinning and the transfer case uses a viscous fluid coupling so they can mesh up and engage at any speed. Just btw. i own a 1990 loyale wagon and just read the owners manual.
this car also has auto power headlights and hill holding clutch features that was very special and even cars made in 2000s didnt have that. welcome back mr regular this has been my long dream come true.
+Charles Von Crastenberg who the fuck are you, and do you literally spend all day commenting on every RUclips video ever made? Jesus you are everywhere
I had one of these. Paid $250 for it. Manual trans. Cold AC. Hot heater. Tons of cargo space. Good fuel economy. FOUR WHEEL DRIVE. As reliable as the sunrise. As easy to maintain and repair as a chainsaw. It was great to be able to stab that 4WD button when you were pulling out into traffic on a rainy day with all of 80 horsepower. The Loyale was geared low enough that it would cut those skinny 14" front tires loose on wet pavement! I miss cars like this.
oh yeah, i love this little car, i currently have a 94 Loyale spd 4x4 wagon.. loved it since i was a child, dad had one to beat up in the woods i rode in the cargo area, seem so much bigger back then.. its comfortable with out being to fancy.. Long Live the Loyale !
This car reminds me of my first car back in high school. 1999 Dodge Grand Caravan. It was such a dark shade of blue it looked black at first glance. Got it from my grandma for doing manual garden labor for a whole summer. It had 178k miles on it and virtually everyone in my family, brothers, dad, cousins, aunts and uncles, and myself, have used it to move numerous times. The front driver side wheel broke off the car while driving on 3 different occasions. First two times the bolts snapped. 3rd time the entire wheel bearing exploded. Also had to replace the radiator, fuel line, fix a coolant leakage, and can’t forget when it got stolen for 3 days. When I got it back only the driver and passenger seat were left and I had to start it with a screw driver for the next 2 years. It was never cool enough to get me any dates. I didn’t care though cause me and my friends used to hotbox the hell out of it every weekend behind the Yours Truly at the basketball court, playing 33 and listening to Flying Lotus and vaporwave. The speakers in the front were blown out so the sound was always in the back, making the bass rumble through your ass in the car. We always called it the “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City van”
I just bought a 91 Loyale for $600 and am in the the process of overhauling everything. Looking up rebuild vids and then this popped up. Best review ever hahaha
I made a very good living selling Subaru’s in the 80’s. It was such a fun car to sell I would unsell it . I would tell people most people prefer Honda’s and Toyota Subaru’s are strange they have different engines and different drive trains that would draw the people in . They were loyal and often wealthy . I tried selling other cars but failed at it. The car business kind of sucks but selling Subaru’s was altogether different .
Loved my underpowered and completely awkward '83 GL Sedan. No fuel injection, having to share the truck lane on steep inclines in 4th gear (3rd if you didn't have GL and were stuck with the 1.6 NA, I had the 1.8NA both being OHV pushrod engines) That was the most reliable car that I knew it would get me to my destination hell or high water, the most amazing thing is my car had dealer installed AC from 1983 and the fact that it STILL WORKED up to the year I parted ways with it in 1996, and traded in for a used Toyota 4 Runner. (I wanted the land cruiser but out of my budget) Another interesting 1983 was the last of the gear driven OHV boxer... Enter the years of OHC and the insanity of the newly introduced madness of the timing belt.
Great to have reviews back. You guys are too damned talented. My friends mom had a loyale wagon about this vintage. The floor rotted right out of it, holes to the pavement before the it died.
+bigvirgotube I would love to believe that, but the truth is they aren't doing that well. The 200 and Dart are scheduled to be discontinued by 2018, with no foreseeable replacement (I'm not sure about the 300). I own a Hellcat, and would love if FCA could fix some of the issues I'm having with fit/finish and material quality, of a less than one year old car. I love my Hellcat, it looks and drives amazing. I wouldn't trade it for any Mustang or Camaro in the world... but things like taillights that don't line up or seat leather that is already warping, is pretty sad on any new car, let alone a "halo" car. I've contacted FCA about the issues, they refuse to do anything about it. Pretty sad, I bet Ford and Chevy would do something. Just my two cents.
"It's good to be making reviews again" I've been waiting for another review for a long time. Thanks for going back to the roots. It was a very good review at that! A good end to a long, bad day.
I'm glad this is your first new review! I just drove a Loyale 750 miles, some of it through PA! It didn't sweat it at all.3 speed auto and mostly over 65 miles an hour.
Almost 400 vids? Sweet bro what a way to kill some time, thank you. Keep up the good work, spot on with entertainment and can't help but watch to the end, even over a car like this.👌🏽
This was the car I learned to drive on. My mom bought a used 1988 model in 1990. It was Canadian spec, manual, with manual windows and no AC. A pre-Loyale model called the GL Wagon. Nearly identical to the Loyale but it had a low-range shifter on the floor. We moved several times in that car. It could barely keep up with traffic going uphill on the freeway, but I never remember any issues. I do remember spinning it 180 degrees on an icy road. I landed in a ditch, put the chains on, popped in 4-low and got out of there.
Mr Reg, this video is responsible for my love of subaru and my new car. Youre awesome. I watch this video so much and all my friends laugh hysterically at your 4wd fighter button thing. Where I live everybody drives trucks and suvs. I gave my ford exploder up for a subaru impreza 5 speed and it has been the most fun in my life. Thanks rcr.
+Tugboatpb buddy has Tercel SR5. Surprisingly roomy but also astonishingly slow! like compared to his other car a bronco (which hates shifting to 3rd like a passion) Made the bronco look like a rad car lmao.
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You know the engine is small when there is room for a spare tyre in the engine compartment.
+Jonas Rosenven Actually it's because the engine is mounted very LOW in the engine compartment (boxer engine)
Didn't Fiat do the same thing in the 80's and 90's?
Little known fact, but the flat engine was invented in Sweden by Björn-Olaf Ikea in the year 1902.
Jonas Rosenven it's because of the boxer motor
@@ThatWolfWithShades Not only Fiat, Peugeot, Renault etc also put spare wheel (full size wheel, not donut) in engine bay. Tavria, Skoda also
"This is how you keep a car company going. Boring cars need to exist."
Case in point: Corollas and Civics.
I love "boring" cars. Something about more basic transportation is uniquely compelling to me.
Civics can be tons of fun
@@artistwithouttalent They can be tons of fun, sure. But for most of the people driving them, its A to B and back.
Everybody should have one bare bones as hell, unkillable, boring car in their lives. It would teach them what true love feels like.
Just in love with basic low level fonctionality. Owned 4 tercels over a few decades, the 'never-dies' on 4 wheels.
You've probably heard this innumerable times before, but I love how you talk about a car's place in society and our culture, rather than just the car for the car's sake. It's a very human way of looking at things - and also goes a long way to explaining why certain cars are made, and certain others aren't. Particularly interesting was your Chrysler reference and that definitely makes me think a lot about the demise of the Australian automakers. A tragedy in slow motion for someone who grew up in the shadow of the Holden factory...
I can do without the vulgarity, but he does make good observations.
+mercoid I cant do without it.
What you call vulgarity I call poetry. And it's necessary for his videos
+HakureiSM .... well it is now, since he has, over the years, cultivated the type of audience that relates to it. So what you say is true. I'm just saying that I personally would prefer to do without it. Clearly he is smart and seems to have a level of education above such talk. He's doing for effect. I suppose you could call it "creative license". That may legitimize it somewhat. I don't mean to sound like a snob, and I'm not trying to demean anyone, but I endeavor to conduct myself without using poop, fart and sexual references constantly.
mercoid
This is the bit that sounds snob: "seems to have a level of education above such talk"
Why "above"? Why do you consider swearing and sexual implications in language something that's beneath you, and/or beneath those who are educated? The brightest people I know swear a lot, the brightest people I know have no qualms with sexuality and profanity, as they're part of language and expression, and really get the fuckin' point across. I'm gonna make poop, fart and sexual jokes for as long as I live, it's more fun that way, and I don't consider myself lesser for it.
I had an '87 Subaru XT Turbo 4WD, with the same 4WD button in the top of the shifter. That car also had electropneumatic suspension, so you could raise it up for driving in snow. That car was the coolest car ever. Turbo, electronic height adjustability, 4WD at any time by pressing the button in the shifter like you just got the missile launch codes. More than once, I was in the NE of the US in winter, driving on normal streets, then had to go down a road that had only been lightly plowed. Suspension up, punch the gear shifter button like a boss and turn onto the road and make it my bitch.
Holy shit I loved that car.
agreed
+Vernon Price
Had a Subaru Brat from around that year myself. My first 4WD experiences I mad in that car. I was 22 and thought it cinda looked like a small version of a ElCamino when eyes squinted because of the slopet area where the bed sides met the roof line. After a terribly rainy spring me and a buddy took it for a ride thru some forest paths and across a tractor road in between the fields that where ridden with water sickness. It handled the muddy slush like a beast.
Later that evening I learned that we where sought after by the cops, because a bank robbery in the nearest town and the villagers called them because it was so suspicious to drive around like that in the the wet and muddy conditions that it was.
My father called it The Helicopter. It sounded awful over 40.
+Vernon Price My dad had Leone with the 1.8 turbo. Epic car. Got my life's only speeding ticket for street racing in that thing. A wagon, too. He had a 1.8 non-turbo as well. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE. The turbo was stable, fast as hell (time may have gilded memory) and fun and easy to drift around in winter. The N/A Leone oversteered to a point where it was borderline undriveable and was just incredibly slow.
I had a 4WD turbo XT, 5 spd and same pneumatic suspension as yours! God I miss that car and still occasionally have dreams about it. The digital dash, speed alarm and awesome checkered light blue interior was just so 80'a.
I need to sell my xt turbo awd project lol
When he said "put down your vape pens" I was actually hitting my vape pen. It kind of blew my mind a little.
Flabulo Did you obey?
It would be supreme if you obeyed bro!
Might have been a sign fan
Yeah, me too. I know it’s douchey, but hey, I don’t smoke anymore, so whatever.
@@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney I didn't even realize I had been watching RCR for 4 years. And when I made this comment I wasn't even new to it. But I have lost my vape pen since. Also they stopped being shaped like pens except weed ones.
I worked one of the worst auctions in the country as an auctioneer way back in 2000.
They sold junk, and I mean JUNK! Whatever leaked or fell off the vehicle as it went through the block, the new owner got that too.
Long story short, the only car I bought during my two years working there was a 1991 Subaru Loyale. Bought it for $425. Replaced the water pump, and my local Hashers group used it for beer runs. It was perfect, and I mean brutally perfect for fitting cases of beer.
Sold it for $2000 to a guy who didn't even bother to test drive it. All he did was ask if it was a good car, ripped off 20 $100 bills, and away he went!
Steve Lang That story reminds me of how I got my first car back in high school. 1999 Dodge Grand Caravan. It was such a dark shade of blue it looked black at first glance.
Got it from my grandma for doing manual garden labor for a whole summer. It had 178k miles on it and virtually everyone in my family, brothers, dad, cousins, aunts and uncles, and myself, have used it to move numerous times.
Me and my friends used to hotbox the hell out of it every weekend. The speakers in the front were blown out so the sound was always in the back. Will never forget when it got stolen for 3 days. When I got it back only the driver and passenger seat were left and I had to start it with a screw driver for the next 2 years
@@jirehjirehjirehjireh Dang. My parents have a 92 Caravan that also got stolen and recovered. It's three different colors, has a bullet hole in it, and still runs perfectly.
This car smart. This car Loyale
+Jeff Jones I appreciate dat.
you played yuh self
+Jeff Jones A regular car review? Another one. Another one. Another one.
Dats a good car
Another one
3 years ago. I saw this video come out. I said yo myself "I need one." one month later, 90k miles, 3 speed 4wd, wagon and $800 in my pocket. 3 years later, I still have it with 150k miles and counting. I will never get rid of it... thank you rcr, for I would have never heard of Subaru before 1998
Still have it?
@@noobeenaut yes, and I do everything I can to keep it in top shape
@@prototypehangar8447 Nice!
@@prototypehangar8447 advice on maintain?
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dat watch on the steering wheel's spoke
REAL HUMAN BEING AND A REAL HERO
real human bean
his clock doesn't work that what he had to do
+Logan Geib yeah right
i bet he's really a getaway driver
Mamac2006 a year later & this comment is still underrated.
a rhetorical question
"DO YOU HEAR ME CHRYSLER?!"
Lmao
I had an '88 version of that car in college. It really was a great car for getting up to the slopes with 3 of your buddies, all your gear, and tons of weed.
The spare in the engine bay gets me every time. It's so different sitting in there.
BESIM X CARS They did it in the 1970s too along with other auto brands
Who needs engine covers? Got my spare, brah
It’s like that Yugo Doug reviewed
@@user-xg8yy7yl1d Fiat, Renault (Le Car AMC) also, Citroen, most of comunist cars aslo.
We talk about full size wheel not a donut
I'll never make a review as good as this on anything.
lol
yeah, probably.
Rerez I enjoy your content.
Well fancy seeing you here Rerez!
You are correct
Best review yet. Between the "Missile Button" and the "Dad Joke on 4 Wheels", I was tearing up. Every time I see a Loyale, it makes me smile, for exactly the reasons you stated. This car did everything right in it's time when people saw Subaru as nothing more than that strange Japanese company. As a Subaru enthusiast, The GL and Loyale are classics in the way of modern Japanese vehicles.
I live in New Zealand and during the 90s these were EVERYWHERE, pretty much everyone had one. They were not called a loyale though they were called subaru leone. Then a few years later they disappeared and you won't ever see one anywhere.
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The predecessor of this car, the Suburu 1600DL brought me to kindergarden, 20 years later I used it to go to university. The engine was weak and it had flaws, but we had it for 24 years and it never failed. They did several things wrong, but above al these Leon/Loyals were just incredibly strong and reliable machines, with very little gadgets that could fail.
Skipped gym class for this.
im telling rippetoe
"A dad joke on four wheels" love that one!
I own a 1986 Toyota Tercel station wagon with the selectable 4 wheel drive and the manual transmission and I love it because it goes threw anything and it was cheep.
Probably one of my favorite regular car review's ever.
Welcome back, guys. We've missed you.
I've got a base 06 Impreza 2.5i; and this video will always make me cry. Learning, always yearning, for something better, something from the year I was born, reliable, fwd. You've continuously killed me, and convalesced my goals, and love for reliability, practicality, with this video. Much Love RCR.
Glad to see you coming back to your roots.
i freaking love regular car reviews
ANYTIME YOU WANT
BURRSSHHHHHHHHHH
+Kyoto-Moto nice meme
There's a nice poetry to the Loyale, that it was followed by the Legacy. It's as if Subaru's saying, "Thanks for all you've done for us, but it's time for us to move on. We won't forget you."
Thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing the reviews back! I lost hope but you guys didn't forget about us!
REVIEW THE DAMN GEO METRO ALREADY
+Sadwaffles As long as this channel's been around, I'm honestly really surprised he hasn't already
And a tracker you know the cheap jeep that wants to kill the driver at anything over 25mph
The tracker only wants to kill you for going over 25 into a corner
@@halfassautomotive6824 maybe the one I drove was a lemon then cause it was terrifying ... I loved it
Thanks for being one of a handful of places on the internet that I can experience pure joy by watching, still. Keep it up!
Excellent review! I have a WRX & there's one loyal wagon always parked on a street in town (same random stickers, prob same driver). It's like seeing your grand-pa, you gotta be grateful for the work he put in with the oats and those work horse sales.
So glad you guys are making reviews again. And love that thumb missile/4wd button!
+Carlu Yabut A friend had one and that button always was amazing to me. LOL You could go from just about stuck, in a flash away you went with a push of a button.
Thank god, car reviews!
Subaru for DAAAAAAAAAAAAd.
my dad drove subaru for roughly 30 years. From loyale to justy, to Legacy, Impreza, all of them.
I actually have great memories of driving the justy.
My dad taught me to drive in a 92 Loyale wagon. Still the only car that brings back nostalgia for me.
Wouldn't be a Subaru from PA without the WXPN sticker
2:35 after that bit i realized how mutch of a stonner my dad was
Breath of freshish air. I own 2 WRXs and it's nice to see what their grandfather looks like!
What we need is one of these but with a Subaru XT under the skin. 6 cylinders of fury and a joystick shifter, concealed under a "boring" wagon. Perfect sleeper.
Hallelujah! Nothing against the Falcon videos, but it's just not the same as these...
I'm here also for the reviews
+Jason Andrews I was about lose my mind
My father bought a 1983 Subaru GL wagon in Louisiana, a FWD 1.8l CARBORATED station wagon. That wagon stayed with us for 19 years of his United States Air Force service, getting us through the forests of Germany (where it saw the Berlin Wall fall), dried lake beds of California (where the space shuttle lands), Alps of Italy (and Vince, Rome, and the Almafi Coast), and desert of Texas (where no humans should ever be) before he sold it to a college kid. It had 180k+ miles on the clock, and he claims all he had to do to it was replace the clutch plates twice in that span. Reliable, do all, trustworthy service.
He has replaced it with a Dodge Stratus, new off the lot, who's transmission shit the bed within a month of ownership.
Since then, he has had 4 Subarus, through Anchorage Alaska, Pennsylvania, and now Ohio.
One of those, a 2018 6MT Forester, now sits in my driveway, receiving a fresh wash and wax today, as it turns out. I get 31.5mpg during the summer in a 4WD, trailer-pulling, family mover.
Here's to Subaru. 😘🍷
Good God, the childhood memories are coming back to me again lol. My parents had an '88 sky blue wagon with the same exact engine, yet auto. The 4WD button on the Autos were right below shift release button.
Oh, and don't forget the Rusty Jones sticker on the quarter windows of these cars.
Man I wish I could like this video more than once. RCR is pretty much the only channel that does reviews on the most obscure undesirable shit-mobiles along with the occasional Hellcat or Stingray (maybe besides The Smoking Tire). Good job sir.
"Even kids from other school districts heard about that guy." Amazing.
"Do you hear my Chrysler?" - Could not agree more Mr Regular.
it's good to be back! fucking miss these!
a loyale with cheese. also the call out to bugeye and hawkeye drivers. thank you Mr. Regular.
Died at the Chrysler throwback joke. Glad the reviews are back man!
First car was sedan Loyale... man this brings back memories. The ultimate death of it was the front control arms. RIP. I miss those seatbelts man.
its good to be watching your reviews again!
If you own one of these, please, for the love of god, DON'T shift into 4WD above 20mph! It's not designed for it and you're gonna break shit.
+TinPinFTW What happens exactly?
+///M Switching into 4wd at speed puts a ton of strain on the transfer case, which is something you don't want to be replaced. Pretty sure the manual states not to shift into or out of 4wd above 20 mph.
+TinPinFTW The older GL Wagons and the oddly stripped base hatchback (which had shared the same front grille design as the Brat) had a large paddle/mechanical lever that you had to pull upwards to engage 4WD. In the newer design in this wagon had an electronic switch on the handle to prevent any damage to the coupling so such damage wouldn't happen.
not true our family has a few of these and you can drive these as fast as you like engage 4wd when ever you like as long as your in loose conditions and your wheels are straight.
if your wheels aren't straight the 4wd wont engage i have 230k on my 86 gl and my dad has 245k on his loyale .
you are not gonna break shit i have taken mine 50 mph in 4wd in the snow didnt harm a thing
IF your Loyale is equipped with the electronic 4x4 (Like the one in the video), NOT the manual 2/4 transfer case shifter. then the owners manual explicitly states you can "Engage the 4x4 at anytime, any speed." The rear diff and drive shaft are always spinning and the transfer case uses a viscous fluid coupling so they can mesh up and engage at any speed. Just btw. i own a 1990 loyale wagon and just read the owners manual.
The Pulp Fiction reference right from the get go made this a classic.
this car also has auto power headlights and hill holding clutch features that was very special and even cars made in 2000s didnt have that.
welcome back mr regular this has been my long dream come true.
+Charles Von Crastenberg fuck off
+Charles Von Crastenberg who the fuck are you, and do you literally spend all day commenting on every RUclips video ever made? Jesus you are everywhere
Charles Von Crastenberg
Yes that's exactly what I am doing!
Good Chrysler shoutout
about fucking time.
I had one of these. Paid $250 for it. Manual trans. Cold AC. Hot heater. Tons of cargo space. Good fuel economy. FOUR WHEEL DRIVE. As reliable as the sunrise. As easy to maintain and repair as a chainsaw. It was great to be able to stab that 4WD button when you were pulling out into traffic on a rainy day with all of 80 horsepower. The Loyale was geared low enough that it would cut those skinny 14" front tires loose on wet pavement!
I miss cars like this.
oh yeah, i love this little car, i currently have a 94 Loyale spd 4x4 wagon..
loved it since i was a child, dad had one to beat up in the woods i rode in the cargo area, seem so much bigger back then..
its comfortable with out being to fancy..
Long Live the Loyale !
(Watches Gymkhana 2)
I wanna be Ken Block. I don't have quite enough money for an Impreza STi, but I do have enough money for a Loyale
"A dad joke on wheels" I love that line
had an 88 loyale GL with hi-lo 4wd and you described me completely in the first line of your vid.
welcome back.
This car reminds me of my first car back in high school. 1999 Dodge Grand Caravan. It was such a dark shade of blue it looked black at first glance.
Got it from my grandma for doing manual garden labor for a whole summer. It had 178k miles on it and virtually everyone in my family, brothers, dad, cousins, aunts and uncles, and myself, have used it to move numerous times.
The front driver side wheel broke off the car while driving on 3 different occasions. First two times the bolts snapped. 3rd time the entire wheel bearing exploded. Also had to replace the radiator, fuel line, fix a coolant leakage, and can’t forget when it got stolen for 3 days. When I got it back only the driver and passenger seat were left and I had to start it with a screw driver for the next 2 years.
It was never cool enough to get me any dates. I didn’t care though cause me and my friends used to hotbox the hell out of it every weekend behind the Yours Truly at the basketball court, playing 33 and listening to Flying Lotus and vaporwave. The speakers in the front were blown out so the sound was always in the back, making the bass rumble through your ass in the car.
We always called it the “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City van”
I just saw a mint low mileage SVX on craigslist the other day, I immediately thought of this channel.
THIS GUY IN PA NEAR WHERE I LIVE HAS 2 SVXs ON HIS LOT AND HE'S JUST LETTING THEM RUST AWAY!!! THEY'RE JUST USED FOR PARTS!!! WHYYYYY???
Dads bending flat brim hats too real
I love that these reviews are finally back! Thank you!
I just bought a 91 Loyale for $600 and am in the the process of overhauling everything. Looking up rebuild vids and then this popped up. Best review ever hahaha
I made a very good living selling Subaru’s in the 80’s. It was such a fun car to sell I would unsell it . I would tell people most people prefer Honda’s and Toyota Subaru’s are strange they have different engines and different drive trains that would draw the people in . They were loyal and often wealthy . I tried selling other cars but failed at it. The car business kind of sucks but selling Subaru’s was altogether different .
You can still make a good living selling Subaru’s today. The customers are a little different from other brands
Ooooh green day parody at the end
F.O.D.
+esnebta Dookie is just one of those albums where every song is awesome.
TheKillaComa beginning and end lol
Loved my underpowered and completely awkward '83 GL Sedan. No fuel injection, having to share the truck lane on steep inclines in 4th gear (3rd if you didn't have GL and were stuck with the 1.6 NA, I had the 1.8NA both being OHV pushrod engines)
That was the most reliable car that I knew it would get me to my destination hell or high water, the most amazing thing is my car had dealer installed AC from 1983 and the fact that it STILL WORKED up to the year I parted ways with it in 1996, and traded in for a used Toyota 4 Runner. (I wanted the land cruiser but out of my budget)
Another interesting 1983 was the last of the gear driven OHV boxer... Enter the years of OHC and the insanity of the newly introduced madness of the timing belt.
Great to have reviews back. You guys are too damned talented.
My friends mom had a loyale wagon about this vintage. The floor rotted right out of it, holes to the pavement before the it died.
WOO! Hellcat review callback, "DO YOU HEAR ME CHRYSLER!" ... I wish they would hear him.
+bigvirgotube I would love to believe that, but the truth is they aren't doing that well. The 200 and Dart are scheduled to be discontinued by 2018, with no foreseeable replacement (I'm not sure about the 300). I own a Hellcat, and would love if FCA could fix some of the issues I'm having with fit/finish and material quality, of a less than one year old car. I love my Hellcat, it looks and drives amazing. I wouldn't trade it for any Mustang or Camaro in the world... but things like taillights that don't line up or seat leather that is already warping, is pretty sad on any new car, let alone a "halo" car. I've contacted FCA about the issues, they refuse to do anything about it. Pretty sad, I bet Ford and Chevy would do something. Just my two cents.
About friggin time.
"It's good to be making reviews again"
I've been waiting for another review for a long time. Thanks for going back to the roots. It was a very good review at that!
A good end to a long, bad day.
I'm glad this is your first new review! I just drove a Loyale 750 miles, some of it through PA! It didn't sweat it at all.3 speed auto and mostly over 65 miles an hour.
Now I want one. Just for the button. Bzzshhhh
I was having regular car review withdraws
+HoneyBadgerGaming i was already having seizures
ferdinand12390 same
Almost 400 vids? Sweet bro what a way to kill some time, thank you. Keep up the good work, spot on with entertainment and can't help but watch to the end, even over a car like this.👌🏽
Seems like months since a review. thank you guys!
I have a 2004 Saab 9-3 ARC for a future review.
saab 4 lyf
If he did that, I'd show up with my '03 9-5 for a double review. Like the S13/240sx episode.
I love Saabs. Had 2 convertibles. Awesome engineering.
I can bring my 04 aero for a submodel comparison
***** those are boring.
I'm pretty sure Calvin's dad had a version of this car
This was the car I learned to drive on. My mom bought a used 1988 model in 1990. It was Canadian spec, manual, with manual windows and no AC. A pre-Loyale model called the GL Wagon. Nearly identical to the Loyale but it had a low-range shifter on the floor. We moved several times in that car. It could barely keep up with traffic going uphill on the freeway, but I never remember any issues. I do remember spinning it 180 degrees on an icy road. I landed in a ditch, put the chains on, popped in 4-low and got out of there.
I was beginning to wonder if the days of these reviews were over. I started to forget about this channel I loved.
+Mike Morris Brian has been working on the Falcon
Who remembers the RUSTY JONES stickers on the rear quarter windows??
BRAT & Loyale = Subaru's Goofus and Galant
I was actually talking with my brother yesterday thinking "it's been a long while since a new Regular Review". I'm glad Mr.Regular is back.
I'm glad the reviews are back, I missed you guys.
Mitsubishi had the same 4x4 and the Dodge Colt as well.
Maybe if Samuel Jackson and John Travolta had on of these with the offroad suspension Martin would be alive today #blacklivesmatter
Thanks Obama
Marvin
"It's just 'Reelin' in the Years' over and over and over and over again" i'm dying of laughter!! This is the RCR I missed
Still rockin an 87 DL wagon in 2022. Thanks for the interesting review style.
fun fact -
Loyale is Royale in Japanese
+N1GHT5 No, it's Roiaru
FUCKNG INTRO WAS GREAT 10/10 LAUGHS
one of your best reviews! welcome back!
Mr Reg, this video is responsible for my love of subaru and my new car. Youre awesome. I watch this video so much and all my friends laugh hysterically at your 4wd fighter button thing. Where I live everybody drives trucks and suvs. I gave my ford exploder up for a subaru impreza 5 speed and it has been the most fun in my life. Thanks rcr.
boring cars have to exist... that sentence is the bane to my existence.
My dad had 2 of themI wish modern Suabrus were this simple, they all look bloated to me
I always come back to this review. Man I want one of these
So glad to be getting reviews again!!!
Can you do a Toyota Tercel review?
That'd probably be similar to the review he did of his old Toyota Echo.
+Evan Richardson I mean like the 80s wagon
+SaturnValleyGamer My dad has one, such a basic car
+Tugboatpb buddy has Tercel SR5. Surprisingly roomy but also astonishingly slow! like compared to his other car a bronco (which hates shifting to 3rd like a passion) Made the bronco look like a rad car lmao.
+GetTacoFaced "Whoa dude, your car does an 11 second quarter mile?" "No, I meant 11 seconds zero to 60..."
HOT BOX
all day