At $8,995, Is This 2007 Subaru Tribeca The Limo You've Been Longing For?

Livery work tin beryllium lucrative work, fixed each nan weddings, proms, and bro-parties location are around. Today's Nice Price aliases No Dice Subaru brings immoderate added weirdness to that activity arsenic it's 1 of nan astir unexpected limos you mightiness find. Let's determine whether its value is thing worthy celebrating.

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It's safe to opportunity that, by nan property of ten, Robert Wadlow would person been hard-pressed to fresh successful nan tight confines of nan 1986 Zimmer Quicksliver we considered yesterday. Both he and nan car, though, shared a akin consciousness of disproportion successful their looks, pinch nan Fiero-based Quicksilver having been lengthened successful some chemoreceptor and butt complete its philanthropist car. A V8 transplant couldn't flooded those audacious proportions aliases nan car's wide appearance, and astatine $12,950, you each sent it packing pinch a 68% No Dice loss.

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That's beautiful overmuch nan lawsuit pinch nan naming prime connected today's 2007 Subaru B9 Tribeca. The only non-weird portion of nan sanction is nan marque, Subaru, which I deliberation we tin each work together is simply a amended prime than utilizing nan company's genitor marque name, Fuji Heavy Industries. After that, however, nan car's sanction gets a spot much inscrutable. The B9 portion is thing that Subaru was toying pinch for its full lineup—the B opinionated for "Boxer" indicating nan company's prime of pancake engines for its cars, and nan 9 denoting nan placement successful nan exemplary range. Subaru abandoned this strategy halfway done nan Model's run, and ne'er applied it to immoderate different car successful its lineup. The Tribeca sanction is little cryptic, but possibly much overseas since location is nary evident relationship betwixt nan New York City vicinity and nan car, different than Subaru execs reasoning it sounded cool. It's possibly cooler than nan sanction of nan Tribeca's replacement, which nan institution anointed nan "Assent."

There's much to this B9 Tribeca than conscionable a weird name, though. Much more. This car has been converted into a limousine via a cut-and-stretch insert that adds astir 4 feet betwixt its beforehand and rear doors. This was apparently nan brainchild of Ernie Boch Jr., a Boston-area Subaru dealer, who sounded nan thought to Fuji Heavy Industries executives astatine a gathering and persuaded nan institution to build nan car connected nan modular Tribeca statement astatine Subaru's works successful Lafayette, Indiana. The interior was designed by a coachbuilder extracurricular of Subaru, but nan associated endeavor appears to person been good executed.

The beforehand compartment is banal Tribeca, but that's separated from nan romper room by a coagulated sheet and what appears to beryllium a retractable solid panel. In nan back, there's seating for 7 (or more, if laps are taken into account), stereo, TVs, and a mini bar. Sadly, there's nary satellite tile retired of which inebriated revelers tin flick their heads and make bad decisions. It each looks to beryllium successful awesome information and amazingly not tacky for a limo—thankfully, nary accommodation was made for a stripper pole.

Power for nan Tribeca comes from a 3.0-liter flat-six engine, which, from nan factory, made 245 horsepower and 215 pound-feet of torque. Mated to that is simply a five-speed automatic and—on a modular car—AWD pinch a torque-sensing viscous halfway differential.

This raises nan mobility of what was done pinch nan AWD erstwhile this limo went down nan line. Is it still intact, pinch an incredibly agelong and apt very challenging-to-balance prop shaft? Or was it abandoned successful ray of nan effort needed to make it work?

That enigma isn't answered successful nan ad. In fact, there's nary accusation astir nan car AT ALL offered successful nan ad. It only says:

"2007 Subaru B9 Tribeca Limo travel cheque it out!"

There's nary mileage given, nor title status. To beryllium fair, it is listed connected Facebook Marketplace, which is nan classified advertisement balanced of a separator municipality switch meet. As noted, nan pictures do show nan car to beryllium successful decent shape, pinch nary evident issues successful nan bodywork, cabin, aliases statement room.

An important mobility regarding this Tribeca limo is, "Where americium I going to parkland this thing?" Another mobility is, "How overmuch money could I make arsenic a limo driver pinch it?" This isn't conscionable a car, it's a imaginable money maker. Or, it could make for nan coolest genitor successful nan schoolhouse carpool. Either way, we now request to determine if it's worthy nan $8,995 finance successful its purchase.

What do you think? Is this Tribeca Limo worthy $8,995 arsenic it presently stands? Or is location not capable accusation successful nan advertisement to propulsion nan trigger?

You decide!

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