More Subaru powered aircraft:
Foxcon - Subaru EA81
But these aren’t using the engine in the OP’s car. And it’s more ‘let’s try Subaru engines in planes’ than ‘Subaru makes airplane engines.’
Folks tried the same thing with the Porsche 911 aircooled engines, then dropped it.
Car repair costs are always denigrated as being too high no matter how fair they are.
So would 800 in labor get dissed if the repairs were done by a HVAC guy who fixed the outside condenser or the heat exchanger…
What about 800 for some plumber to come and replace a section of collapsed sewer line or a water heater that decided to wave the white flag…
Or 800 from a tree service company for chain sawing and hauling off that large tree that fell on the house…
We did that last night, the night before, and the night before as well. Sometimes you just gotta live a little.
That reminds me, I’m out of gin. 
This is why—
The Subaru all alloy water cooled boxer engine was originally developed by Fuiji heavy industries for use as an aircraft engine . When company policy changed and their own aircraft turned out to need larger engines, the engine was reconfigured to be fitted in their cars.
… and they are still in the aviation business:
Be a bummer to have a head gasket failure at 10,000 feet.
WRONG. You can do any and all repairs yourself or have a good independent (usually cheaper) to do it for you and it can NOT void warranty.
The labor cost is probably because of the back plugs on a v6. On many vehicles they are a pain to get to and you have to remove many parts (like intake manifold) to reach them. This usually isn’t a job for most weekend warriors.
60k plug replacement interval is returning with direct-injection engines. Is this a direct-injection engine?
I didn’t know that. Any link to a history of that? I can’t find any. Long before Subaru the predecessor of Fuji was Nakajima, maker of WWII aircraft.
I’m thinking this is a good ‘story’, often repeated, that might not be true. All Fuji Heavy Industry planes I can find from the '50s and '60s had typical flat four air cooled aviation engines (Lycoming, etc.), not water cooled.
Www.Prakas.nl is the website. Prakas is a Netherlands company that provides parts for conversion of Subaru engines for home built aircraft. Engines coming full circle!
I googled “did Subaru ever build aircraft engines” that is when it came up. They found their water cooled boxer was not suited for their aircraft, went with Lycoming engines.
That web site doesn’t work. Edit - but ‘Prekas.nl’ does. They state ‘the water cooled boxer was not suited for aircraft’, but this is just a statement from a modern engine conversion company (founded in 1995). It’s inconsistent with the history of the Subaru water cooled flat four, because the EA engine (the first water cooled Subaru flat four) went into their model 1000 car in 1965, long after another branch of Fuji built their first plane using Lycoming engines.
Yes, it is strange, you have to use the request I made on Google to get the quote I posted.
But as you suggested, they might just be repeating a myth.
As a plane hobbyist, this got me curious, so I posted a question over on an airplane forum. Turns out the Subaru flat four has been used in a number of conversions, but the folks there agree it didn’t originate as an airplane engine. Part of the confusion may have started when the parent company made the ‘Fuji Aero Subaru’ airplane, which had a normal Lycoming engine in it.
Subaru aircraft engines | Come for the cars, stay for the anarchy (opposite-lock.com)
Haven’t gone to restaurant for dinner since covid, but just before gf & I went to Mexican restaurant, and indeed got a bit of sticker shock. I said it was pretty good food, and wanted to go back the next weekend. Gf agreed food was good, but “too expensive”, and since fairly easy to make, better value to just make at home. Big pot of cooked mexican-style beans in fridge … lol …
Almost 3 years without a meal out? I couldn’t imagine that. Even when covid was still in full swing we would go out to eat whenever we would find a place that was open. But then again I take more pleasure in eating than most people do. Probably explains why I keep getting bigger as I get older. It’s not the dryer that’s shrinking my clothes, it’s the refrigerator. 
We continued our customary Friday carry out. I just wore a mask when I picked it up and didn’t spend a lot of time in the restaurant.
Same here. But we do go to restaurants that during the summer that have outside seating.
Do you have warranty that requires scheduled tuneups? Maybe I missed that? Or is query about doing services to make you feel better? But at low cost?
We simply use Doordash or Uber Eats for our friday and saturday night take out dinners.
Carry-out restaurant food from time to time. But only items that I can re-heat to steaming temps. Italian & Asian foods good for this purpose, but no salads, etc.