This thread is very revealing and deserves a bump.
I will add, if I bought a Subaru (I did not and in all probability won’t), please don’t attack my car buying judgment by telling me that a Subaru (or insert your brand here) is no good. I choose wisely every time have received affirmation for that from Consumer Reports.
A work friend from the Michigan UP told me several years ago that Subarus could not take the pounding of winter there like American iron could.