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The 1986 Subaru 4WD Wagon Can Go Where the Sick Cows Are in Wisconsin

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By the middle 1980s, the Subaru Leone had become bigger and more powerful than its butt-of-jokes predecessors, and its optional four-wheel-drive system was a bigger seller than ever. Here's a magazine advertisement hyping the ability of a turbocharged 4WD Subaru wagon to get a Wisconsin large-animal veterinarian to his patients.

1986 subaru 4wd wagon magazine advertisement
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Keep in mind this car weighed just 2,495 pounds, which is about 1,500 pounds lighter than the current Outback, so space for Holstein medications would have been quite limited by modern standards.