[Bmosbacker]

After sitting in the second row seats in the highlander for 5 minutes, I realized the padding was so thin there was no way I could subject my adult friends to sit on them for any length of time.

Well, that may depend on the friend! ?

 

[Trey T]

From the mere principle of AWD on mitsubishi and Subaru, they’re similar. If we dive in just a bit beyond the principle, the conceptual design of the two AWD platform, they’re two different animal. The Subaru AWD drive train layout is different than 90%+ cars out there, particularly the engine tranny sits longitudinally for symmetry and balance design. The simplest way to characterize the two is one is symmetrical and asymmetrical AWD, hence Subaru’s trademark

 

[Robert.Mauro]

From the mere principle of AWD on mitsubishi and Subaru, they’re similar. If we dive in just a bit beyond the principle, the conceptual design of the two AWD platform, they’re two different animal. The Subaru AWD drive train layout is different than 90%+ cars out there, particularly the engine tranny sits longitudinally for symmetry and balance design. The simplest way to characterize the two is one is symmetrical and asymmetrical AWD, hence Subaru’s trademark

Well, and one is front wheel drive in eco mode, and highly front wheel biased in not-eco-mode.

 

[roj30]

One thing I know, Outlander is a beast in snow. I’m expecting same results from my Ascent, I was always interested in Subaru AWD.

 

[Percy Garris]

I have an outlander sport while my roof/hatch get fixed, it's kind of an endearing car ( it also exceeded my expectations by far, but they were pretty low to begin with). It handles Ok, rides nicely, is big inside relative to the exterior, has a killer stereo, and gets great gas mileage... And the cvt works like God intended it to work- rev to the power peak ( ok, power is a relative thing in this case) and stay there until you get to your desired velocity, instead of pretending to have gears. It did great in some serious mud on some challenging back roads....

Far better overall than the Dodge Journey I once had to suffer through for a few days.

 

[Robert.Mauro]

One thing I know, Outlander is a beast in snow. I’m expecting same results from my Ascent, I was always interested in Subaru AWD.

The Ascent has more power than the Outbacks and Foresters in most of these videos. It is an absolute beast in the snow, as I know from personal experience driving on the frozen Lake Algonquin.

After this, we drove through the blizzard that hit upstate NY during MLK Weekend 2019.

I have never driven a car that's as sure footed in the snow as my Subies.

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[roj30]

Hello Robert,

I bet and believe you. I will update everyone this upcoming winter.

 

[JimRatliff]

OK, I feel the need to post. I've got 20k miles on my Ascent, including 7,000 in July going from New York City for a bicycle ride up and I've Vail Pass, then Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, and back through Austin, TX. Our other big trip was skiing in Utah and Colorado, and there was a lot of snow last year. The Subaru had handled everything with grace and aplomb. Gas mileage for the whole 20,000 is 25.4, and I often get 30 if I decide to use 91 octane, which I did on this last trip because of the really hot temps.

Suprisingly, my wife and I use many more of the USB outlets than we ever imagined, plugging bike computer, heart monitor helmet to helmet com, her Kindle, my phone for Android App.

Someone in retail Customer Service once told me that an upset customer Will tell 7 times as many people about a bad experience and remember it 10 times as long. That is true of bike and ski forums, I imagine it's true here as well.

Count me in the (mostly silent) happy majority.