A suberu? Maybe bi??

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Originally posted by PASig:
I don’t know what these reviewers were talking about when researching this vehicle:

“It’s slow, it’s underpowered”

Really? Seems to have plenty of get up and go, 182 hp seems plenty for this size vehicle. I guess the Mazda I had previously was really underpowered because this one feels like it has really good power.

I did find it a bit underpowered when compared to it's competitors, that's why I passed on it for a Mazda...I went down a size to the CX-30 and went with the turbo so it's not really an apples vs. apples comparison. My wife and daughter drive CX-5s (2016 & 2022) and they do have a bit more pep that the Subi

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“The CVT stinks. CVT’s are awful”

Really? I don’t even notice it. The car just shifts so smoothly and imperceptibly to me, seems just fine.

Except for the early ones, CVT has really held their own for daily driving. There is a learning curve if you want optimal performance.

I would be surprised if it didn't "shift smoothly"...as it doesn't shift at all. There are no steps as the ratios change in the drive. It's like a belt running between two opposing cones which slide back and forth to select how power is transmitted

In certain scenarios, the Subaru CVT has simulated 'shifts' to make it feel like a trad auto, I guess.
Some also have paddle shifters in the wheel that drop to specified ratios.

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Originally posted by PASig:
The one thing I’m hearing is that Subaru has a pretty strict 6,000 mile oil change interval due to the design of the engine?.

I was already doing 6mo/6k miles oil change intervals on my bmws so when I bought my daughter the subaru, I stuck to that with it. Made things easier. No issues at all. She's over 70k miles now (bought it new). Subaru dealership keeps offering us money to trade it in for another Subaru but I don't like interest rates these days.

Congratulations on purchasing a Forester. It is an outstanding car. We received about one foot of snow here in Chicagoland and of course I had to work in it. Earlier this year the company I work for purchased a Forester and added it to our fleet of patrol cars. I drove around in that foot of snow all day yesterday and did not get stuck or spin my wheels once. It handles the snow better than even my Jeep did. It is an amazing vehicle. So much so that I'm thinking of buying one for my personal use. Not sure if I want a Crosstrek or an Ascent but my next car will without a doubt be a Subaru if the drive trains on all of their cars are the same. But there are other things I like about besides it's drivability in snow. I like where they put the computer screen. I don't feel as if I have a laptop glued onto my dashboard. The visibility inside the car is outstanding. It's peppy and handles very well on dry pavement as well as it does in the snow. The company that I work for has purchased Honda CRV's, Ford Explorers, some kind of Mazda, a C5 IIRC, and this Forester. NONE of them can compare to the Forester. We baby these cars and do all the proper maintenance the manufacture's recommend. None of the others have really held up, particularly the CRV's which kind of surprised me. Congrats again on your purchase of one of the best cars on the market.

Years ago, we were in Idaho in January. Group of about 18 people sharing a large cabin between Boise & West Yellowstone.
We conveyed up to Yellowstone for a monster bus tour & were in the lead car, a 08-ish GM Yukon XL. Throughout the drive up, everything started shutting down, lights, stereo, vacation, gauges, then just died. We parked it on the side of the -26*F road and split into the following cars [was a dead alternator]

On the drove back I was woth another couple [also from Houston] in a Forester rental.
Long story to say, AWD doesn't = invincible. Guy driving took a wrong turn & put it, gently, into the snow on the side of the road.
I had a bad knee, so I took the wheel to rock it out of the snow while he & his wife pushed.

I drove us the rest of the way, slippery but manageable, a bit of racing experience in college helping out there.

Also had some wheel time in a Forster XT from St George UT into NV, south of Mesquite. Cold & snowy in UT and drying as we went through the AZ gorge. The XT was a blast on the curves. Shame they dropped it.

My wife's 2014 Forrester used 0-20 synthetic and had a 7,500 mile \ 7.5 month engine oil change interval. Her 2025 Forrester uses the same oil, but now has a 6,000 mile \ 6 month engine oil change interval. We owned a 2012 Outback and the 2014 Forrester, and both had well over 100k miles on them when we sold them. Both had started to lose about a quart of oil between oil changes, so maybe that could have figured into the now 6k oil change interval.

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Originally posted by Chowser:

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Originally posted by PASig:
The one thing I’m hearing is that Subaru has a pretty strict 6,000 mile oil change interval due to the design of the engine?.

I was already doing 6mo/6k miles oil change intervals on my bmws so when I bought my daughter the subaru, I stuck to that with it. Made things easier. No issues at all. She's over 70k miles now (bought it new). Subaru dealership keeps offering us money to trade it in for another Subaru but I don't like interest rates these days.