Subaru is trending bc of this and @drvox tweet, so I just wanted to thread some reasons I, a fervent outdoor enthusiast raised in Colorado, am extremely disappointed with @subaru_usa 1/ https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1304088028743307264">https://twitter.com/MonicaLew...
People were pretty upset, so Subaru released a climate assessment and statement. "we believe that introduction and strengthening of environmental regulations for products are the major risks in the business environment." continued... 3/ https://www.subaru.co.jp/en/csr/environment/050_climaticvariation.html">https://www.subaru.co.jp/en/csr/en...
"AWD... 90% of which Subaru is introducing to the market, has a great opportunity to cope with recent climate change...."

read: Instead of risking profit, we& #39;d rather risk the habitability of the planet, but at least you can drive through the disaster we caused in our car. 4/
ICYMI, automakers have been discontinuing sedans & producing crossovers for YEARS to get around fuel efficiency standards. Claim that "people don& #39;t buy sedans" to justify cutting standards even more, even though they took away that choice! https://www.nclnet.org/fuel_inefficiency">https://www.nclnet.org/fuel_inef... 5/
I should also mention how much influence groups like the auto alliance have on rulemaking. Now we are paying for it. So Subaru driver, maybe you can& #39;t go camping this weekend because of smoke, but hey at least you have AWD if there& #39;s a massive flood as a result in a few months. 6
PS this is not to say she should get a Tesla either. But they aren& #39;t really comparable.
Oh I almost forgot to mention their recent commercial about a photographer who drove into a wildfire in a Subaru. Lets stop exploiting climate tragedies that you are the cause of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBwo3VliTIc&ab_channel=Subaru">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
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