Right. That a dealer saw something on screen does not mean much. What I do believe is that he knows practically nothing--they all say Subaru tells them nothing, which is believable.
If production is supposed to start in 2018 we may not know much till Fall 2017....
Huh? A lot of assumptions about the dealer. Don't know where 2017 and 2018 came from. He told me the date after telling me the car was coming in April. He looked it up to confirm the exact date.
Again, not saying this is truly going to happen, but he was confirming what they had been told by what he was looking up. I don't think it was internet gossip, but email. It was a definitive date.
I'm going to let this all go now. I am not interested in a car with a CVT and have been shopping for a Certified Previously Owned Tribeca with low mileage. It's what I was discussing with him at the time. It's what I prefer. Finding one is difficult.
The newer Tribeca was a VERY poor seller.
This is a quote from Wikipedia, but I've seen similar information all over the internet:
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It was announced in January 2012 that the Subaru Tribeca would stop being sold in the US and Australia, and that its production cycle would come to a stop in December 2012.[7]
On October 18, 2013, Autoblog, Jalopnik, and Cars.com all confirmed that Subaru has informed its dealers that production on the Tribeca will end in January 2014 due to slow sales, as
Subaru has sold just 78,000 Tribecas since 2005, making it one of the worst-selling vehicles in the US in 2011 and 2012; in 2013, only 1,247 Tribecas were sold in the first nine months,[8][9] and placed seventh among the worst selling vehicles in the United States for the 2013 model year with only 1,598 units sold, down 23% from 2012.
The move comes as Subaru is looking at replacing the vehicle with an upscale 7-seat crossover SUV, possibly based on the Subaru Exiga, that would compete against the Ford Explorer and Nissan Pathfinder, which had been
in the planning stages in an effort to attract new buyers without alienating current ones, since the Tribeca (in its present design) does not fit the description Subaru needs in the crossover SUV segment.[11] On April 16, 2015, Subaru confirmed that the next generation Exiga Crossover 7 that will go on sale in Japan
will NOT BE THE REPLACEMENT for the Tribeca in North America because of its size, as Subaru is planning a larger size
successor that could be built in the United States."
I believe less than 2,000 sold in 2014 as well AND IT'S A SHAME.
All of that means the replacement must have been being planned as early as January 2012, but definitely was in planning by October 2013.
There was no confirmation that the car is to be built here; only that it could be, and it that it could be does not mean exclusively.
By the way, this is an interesting Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Tribeca
That's my last comment about this subject, but I will continue to monitor what others have to say.