Outback Onyx 2.5: Special Needs ⭐️⭐️
Seats and materials feel nice, powertrain is strong to 30kmh, space is good, and eyesight feels predictable.
Beauty here, however, is skin deep.
Let's talk about 18L/100km. E63 on the same route around Manhattan then to airport got better mileage.
Outback's boxer shakes car at 5000 RPM trying to merge, like a dropout attempting calculus - embarassing effort, 0 results.
Forums are filled with people like me, wondering why strut mounts/sway bars are clunking at 15k km.
Unibody construction! Independent suspension! This was an open book test and Subaru failed!
Speaking of IRS, the back end wiggles and pushes the front end around... just like a Wrangler.
Someone needs to audit how Subaru is designing these because something is lost in translation.
That Auto Vehicle Hold light blinks like broken smoke detector... it can't remember it's job without reminding itself every second.
The infotainment has 5000 buttons and fonts because it never learned that more shit doesn't equal intelligence...
In 10 years, while the Subaru's back on academic probation waiting for its third CVT, you could be in a Jeep with doors off, nothing between you and fresh air, another V8 upshift fart, and the sound of your own giggling. Or I guess.. 30 miles of EV range and 370hp.
One vehicle admits it's a C-student, threw a a party about it and got kinda smart.
The other flunked out of an undergrad in piston rings, got fat, but still corrects your grammar at Thanksgiving.
Choose wisely.
