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We were able to purchase and drive home a Solterra (Limited) yesterday and thought I'd share our experience.
We reserved our car back in February and placed a factory order in April through our dealer. Like everyone else our delivery date kept slipping from August to September to December to January.
Earlier this week we were finally able to test drive the dealer's service vehicle. My wife and I don't have a lot of EV experience but we are long-time Subaru owners. Both of us were impressed with the drive: immediate accelleration, excellent grip on the wet, windy roads, and a quiet cabin. My wife was immediately sold, especially due to the plentiful and familiar layout of physical buttons and controls. We walked away impressed, glad to keep waiting for our "January" delivery.
The next day our sales rep contacted us letting us know that they had just taken delivery of a Limited Solterra - same specs as the one we ordered but not the same color. It took us 5 seconds to say Yes to that offer.
Three hours later we drove our new Solterra off the lot (at MSPR; manufactured 4/22; pleasant dealership experience). We had just had a level 2 charger installed at our home, so we plugged it in and charged it overnight - went from about 26% to 100% in about 8 hours at ~7.1 kWh. Will need to set it to cap at 80% in the long run for daily use.
So far we are very pleased with the car - the Solterra will complement nicely our Ascent for our uses. I'll share more observations as we put more miles on the car.
Keep in contact with your dealer - I've read similar stories on these forums of dealers having "unreserved" vehicles come in. We did not expected to take ownership of a new car yesterday but we're glad it happened!
We reserved our car back in February and placed a factory order in April through our dealer. Like everyone else our delivery date kept slipping from August to September to December to January.
Earlier this week we were finally able to test drive the dealer's service vehicle. My wife and I don't have a lot of EV experience but we are long-time Subaru owners. Both of us were impressed with the drive: immediate accelleration, excellent grip on the wet, windy roads, and a quiet cabin. My wife was immediately sold, especially due to the plentiful and familiar layout of physical buttons and controls. We walked away impressed, glad to keep waiting for our "January" delivery.
The next day our sales rep contacted us letting us know that they had just taken delivery of a Limited Solterra - same specs as the one we ordered but not the same color. It took us 5 seconds to say Yes to that offer.
Three hours later we drove our new Solterra off the lot (at MSPR; manufactured 4/22; pleasant dealership experience). We had just had a level 2 charger installed at our home, so we plugged it in and charged it overnight - went from about 26% to 100% in about 8 hours at ~7.1 kWh. Will need to set it to cap at 80% in the long run for daily use.
So far we are very pleased with the car - the Solterra will complement nicely our Ascent for our uses. I'll share more observations as we put more miles on the car.
Keep in contact with your dealer - I've read similar stories on these forums of dealers having "unreserved" vehicles come in. We did not expected to take ownership of a new car yesterday but we're glad it happened!
