Off-Roading with Subarus: A New Trend Emerges
Whenever you hit the backcountry cow paths or the off-road park, you just expect to encounter certain vehicles. Toyota Land Cruisers, Nissan XTerras, every possible kind of Jeep ever built, and lifted pickup trucks—you know the drill. Lately, however, I’ve been seeing more and more Subarus out on the trails, and you know what? It’s about time.
Anderson Design & Fabrication agrees, which is why they’ve built a business supplying top-notch body lift kits for everything from old Subaru GLs to the latest Outbacks to the excellent little Forester you see up top. Most of their products use spacers instead of a full spring lift to retain as much of the original ride quality as possible, but they’ll also sell you a long-travel suspension kit for your Subie.
There’s just something weird and wonderful about seeing a Subaru—a car made to look rugged and outdoorsy—finally getting treated like it. Few sights are as joyous as seeing an older Subaru wagon with a six-inch lift. Alternately, it’s time to take the family Ascent through some low-water crossings. Take your Crosstrek on a real trek, and your Outback into some actual outback territory. It’s easier than ever now to hoon your Subaru all over Mother Nature, and it’s glorious.
Anderson Design & Fabrication offers lift kits for both weirdos like the Baja as well as classics as old as the mid-seventies Leones and Brats. “All-terrain” is even right there in the acronym for Subaru’s “Bi-drive Recreational All-terrain Transporter,” so consider this the Brat’s natural habitat. Companies like Anderson Design & Fabrication, Sumo Parts, and LP Adventure are making it easier than ever to elevate your Subaru and protect the breakable parts from too much damage, plus offer other off-road gear like locking differentials and sturdier wheels.
LP Adventure even blogs up some of their wilder, weirder builds, which include other scourges of the Target parking lot like the Honda CR-V. (I’m extremely for off-roading more CR-Vs, too, for the record.) It warms my heart to see companies like Anderson Design & Fabrication and others like Sumo Parts offering whole kits to lift your Subaru up where it probably belongs and protect the breakable parts from too much damage, plus other off-road gear like locking differentials and sturdier wheels.
Just take a look at Justin Solis’ Forester hooning up an absurdly steep hill at Hidden Falls Adventure Park without ever actually needing to have Subaru’s off-road-oriented “X-Mode” on. It’s beautiful and makes me honestly question why I see so many of these only soiled with bird poop and crayons out on the road instead of full side-coats of mud.
via Anderson Design & Fabrication
LP Adventure
via Anderson Design & Fabrication
via Anderson Design & Fabrication
via Anderson Design & Fabrication
via LP Adventure
via Anderson Design & Fabrication
via Anderson Design & Fabrication
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