Subaru is the new face of value and practicality. We don’t appreciate that but snow states sure do. They managed to steal a bunch of customers from Ford by making a cheaper, better version of Escape: a year ago, Ford Escape outsold Subaru Forester 4 to 1, this March, the ratio is only 2 to 1. Escape is down 32%, Forester is up 47%. Impreza has been improved quite a bit and its sales are only 16% down YoY (for a sporty car, that’s a good result! especially since it’s so ugly).
