Ah, the Subaru exhaust rattle. We had it in our Outback and I hear it in every Subaru over a couple of years old here in Western Massachusetts. It is as distinctive as the exhaust note on MGs used to be.
My favorite was my 2000-ish Impreza "Outback Sport" which lost all four hubcaps in pretty short order. Looking around, I could see that the problem was common for that model and year. Still, the only serious issues I had in almost 10 years and ~60K miles were one CV joint and one muffler, both relatively cheap to replace. My wife's much later Forester, on the other hand, succumbed to frame rot much sooner than it should have considering its usage and maintenance. I think they do pretty well on TCO for the budget segment, but anything more upscale not so much.
Ah, the Subaru exhaust rattle. We had it in our Outback and I hear it in every Subaru over a couple of years old here in Western Massachusetts. It is as distinctive as the exhaust note on MGs used to be.