10/25/2023 0 Comments Subaru crossover outback![]() In 2014, Subaru brought its EyeSight technology to the U.S., enabling a full suite of safety and driver-assist features. Large and supportive seats and a quiet cabin make Outback a capable and comfortable long-haul cruiser. Soft-touch surfaces have replaced hard plastics. The quality of cabin materials has improved dramatically. Today’s Outback is roomier (by a wide margin), more comfortable and safer than any before it. Subaru has missed few opportunity to improve its bread-and-butter vehicle. All-wheel-drive continues to be standard. Fuel-efficient continuously variable transmissions (CVTs) have replace the original manual and automatic gearboxes, but power is still by way of a pair of horizontally opposed “boxer” engines. Over the years, Subaru has left the Outback formula essentially intact. ![]() And it’s better in every conceivable way. Today, the sixth-generation, 2018 Outback is no less capable - or scrappy - than the original. It was an economical alternative to the truck-based SUVs that prevailed in those pre-crossover times. ![]() It was outfitted with ding-resistant lower-body cladding and rode on a suspension modified to elevate its ground clearance. The Outback debuted in 1994 as an all-wheel-drive variant of the Legacy station wagon. And at what an unlikely candidate it had been for fomenting the crossover revolution. Sitting at that stoplight on North Division, I marveled at how small and boxy that first, mid-‘90s Outback had been. Hours after taking delivery of my 2018 Subaru Outback tester, I pulled up behind - loomed over, really - a first-generation Outback. ![]()
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