Apart from having a good reliable and powerful engine at that price range. Subaru has a better body to weight ratio. So when you are driving fast you feel nimble, you can quickly overtake. Some other cars, you either feel too light (like when you hit a pothole at 100km/hr you will be thrown off the road) or too heavy that you don't trust that the car will overtake fast enough .. But with Subaru you just feel like it's the perfect balance. You suddenly just feel confident for reasons you can't really explain, it's like an instinct feeling that's takes over you once your toes have been on the pedal for a while, you begin to trust the power behind the pedal... On a smooth road you can even go past 140km/hr and feel like you just cruising at 80km/hr. But with other cars, they might get to that speed but once you are there, it just feels wrong, your body's alarm bells start ringing telling you something is wrong, maybe you should slow down a bit.