Junkyard Find: 1988 Subaru Justy DL

You can’t talk about the miserable econoboxes of the 1980s without talking about perhaps the most miserable of them all: the irresistibly cheap, irredeemably terrible, front-wheel-drive Subaru Justy (the all-wheel-drive Justy could be a lot of fun, of course).

You won’t see many of these cars today, but I was able to find this 28-year-old survivor in a Silicon Valley U-Wrench-It yard.

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  • FreedMike Ah, Chesterfield Mall...my old teenage stomping grounds. Bummer what happened to it, that's for sure. But that's what happens when the city council approves not one, but two "premium" outlet malls right down the road to be built. That killed this mall dead.And in case anyone's interested...yes, Teslas and other EVs are very popular in that neighborhood.
  • MaintenanceCosts Subarus can be durable, but they are going to demand more frequent and expensive regular maintenance than your typical Honda or Toyota. I suspect for a lot of third and fourth owners that means the economic equation favors scrapping them a bit earlier.
  • Bd2 Hyundai and Kia have zero problem selling their respective Ioniq and EV models at or above MSRP. EV9 is the top seller in it's segment.
  • Redapple2 366,000 miles is no small thing. The owners and the manufacturer: tip o the cap.
  • ToolGuy The 6 million residents of Missouri purchase twice as many Tesla vehicles as do the 5 million residents of Alabama. So now you know.