We got a new 2015 Subaru Forester. WHAT A PIECE OF JUNK!!! We pulled into a parking lot at an angle where the sun wasn't washing out the weak dash display, and I noticed that the passenger air bag notifier was OFF. My wife was sitting on a thin pillow, so we experimented and discovered it went to ON without the pillow. Who knows how long the air bag had turned off. What if there were an accident in that time? I later read the manual (see below) and forever removed Subaru from our future -- ASAP. If you want to use a pillow you're supposed to sit in the back seat. That's Twilight Zone there for you.

What if you want to take your new girlfriend on a long trip to the beach and she wants to use a cushion on the rock hard passenger seat? "Oh, sorry new girlfriend, you'll have to move to the back seat. I'll bet you're impressed now, aren't you?"

We wrote Subaru of America who sent us to the dealer to offer a buy bid on the car after more signs of flakiness in the passenger detection. We were offered less than the Edmunds trade-in value for a 2014 Forester, and ours is a 2015 Forester. We would have liked more than that and declined the comical offer. We'll get that much or more trading the Forester in for a good, safe car. The guy in charge said he'd gotten that dollar figure from Peter, whoever Peter is. He taunted us to get a lawyer and pursue legal means. That was very odd and suspicious.