: If I purchased this car (Did you know ACA members get BIG discounts
: on Subarus?) I would be very happy with the racks. I am positive
: they increase gas mileage significantly. Having our rack on the
: GTI is a 10% penalty in mileage, and that gets over 10 mpg more
: than the Outback. I'd rather spend my cash on kayak stuff and
: not burning up gas to get to the water.

: If you do some digging, which I'm sorry I don't have time to do
: right now, Yakima did testing on the factory racks and said they
: were fine. They've also got their big "rack envy" demo
: machine touring the country built up on a new Outback.

: m
Thanks for the comments. Being my old cheap self I decided to make the current one go a bit further, time to repalce a headgasket.