Subaru-sanctioned Tribeca limo built by Boston dealer
click above image to view a gallery of the Subaru Tribeca stretch limo
Wow... um... just wow. Words don't do this stretch Subaru Tribeca limousine justice. It was reportedly built by Ernie Boch Jr., a powerful Boston area dealer that apparently has a penchant for long limousines. Before this he built a stretch Subaru Forester, which happened to be the catalyst for what you see above.
The story told on the North American Subaru Impreza Owners Club forum goes like this. Ernie was in Japan for a meeting with executives at Fuji Heavy Industries, to whom he showed them his stretched Forester and then pitched his plan for an elongated Tribeca. They loved the idea and got the Tribeca's engineers involved, who then shipped plans for stretching the Trib's chassis to engineers at Subaru's plant in Indiana. The limo was then built right on the same assembly line as normal Tribecas. The interior, however, had to be done by a custom coachbuilder.
Apparently both the Forester limo, which we've heard has been sold to another dealer, and the Tribeca limo, are seen frequently around New England. It's a crying shame the updated 2008 model wasn't available at the time, seeing as its new 3.6L boxer six has more ponies and twist available to pull around the limo's extra metal. Of course, when you're in the back of a Tribeca limo, you want to go slow so everybody sees you, right?
[Source: NASIOC via Carscoop]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Mark 8:15PM (7/06/2007)
The name's Ernie Boch, not Bosch.
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dave 8:37PM (7/06/2007)
why!!??
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Viv 8:15PM (7/06/2007)
If they used the nose of the new Tribeca it wouldn't have looked AS hideous.
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Snark 8:15PM (7/06/2007)
Why ask why?
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Paul Y 8:31PM (7/06/2007)
Well, ain't that some shit.
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Don 5:34PM (7/09/2007)
Wait. That monstrosity is being pulled around town by the anemic 3.0L flat 6?
Bryan 8:36PM (7/06/2007)
Just when you thought it could not get any uglier...
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Supercharged 8:58PM (7/06/2007)
horrible
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500 9:04PM (7/06/2007)
Ah, this is the one I saw in front of the Four Seasons in Boston last week. Same license plate too, SNE. I remember wondering at the time who would do that!
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500 9:06PM (7/06/2007)
By the way, the dealer is Ernie BOCH, Jr. Not Bosch.
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500 9:07PM (7/06/2007)
Oops I missed Mark's post.
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F451 9:23PM (7/06/2007)
Is there a movie in the offing: "Ugly and Uglier?"
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paul34 9:53PM (7/06/2007)
Flying vagina.
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SubieB 10:20PM (7/06/2007)
Ernie Boch, Jr. owns Subaru of New England (SNE) which is privately held distributorship. He sells over 25,000 Subarus a year in New England through a network of 65 plus dealers. He stretched a Tribeca into a limo because he could. The man is a billionare who can do weird stuff like this. He also owns a Bentley Continental Flying Spur and an F430 Spider. Oh yeah, and a $17 million dollar Cessna Citation Sovereign jet in case you needed to know.
Viva the flying vagina.
SherbornSean 10:17PM (7/06/2007)
I can't believe I bought a car from this idiot. Well, at least I paid below invoice.
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SubieB 10:22PM (7/06/2007)
This idiot made money on you even though you paid below invoice. Who's the idiot now?
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Frogwhistle 10:33PM (7/06/2007)
Must be a pretty sweet deal to have an auto-dealership magnate as your old man and then simply inherit the throne.
Then you can indulge your every whim, be it stretching ugly cars, or hiring 70's rock has-beens to fill out your "band."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_and_the_Automatics
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SubieB 10:45PM (7/06/2007)
Crazy, sweet deal.
What's funny is the same people who don't like him go down to his Toyota store and buy one of the 10,000+ new Toyotas he sells a year or one of the 7,000+ new Hondas he sells per year.
"C'mon down...and help me count my money!"
E.P. 11:55PM (7/06/2007)
Hey, you can't blame someone for wanting to sit as far away from that front end as possible!
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Frogwhistle 12:05AM (7/07/2007)
This "SubieB" sure smells like Ernie Jr. his own self trolling the 'nets, doesn't it?
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