Batteries have a tendency to be sensitive to environmental changes. Ever notice how your battery usually goes bad in the Spring or Fall? Going from Japan to the US is no less an extreme. Being in Utah, we assumed that the battery would be bad on arrival, but it seemed to be going pretty well. …
The Subaru Sambar is a great vehicle. I even venture to say it looks good. Unfortunately as they inevitably fell to the cost cutters, a few things fell by the wayside. One of those items is the Battery box cover. They just stopped including it in the base model trucks. Frankly it looks really sad …