commanderThe Most Powerful Subaru Ever Is This Electric Family SUV
Dave.I take my place in the pilot seat of the Elecric Family SUV — the most powerful ever by some accounts. Inhaling through my nostrils I take a deep, satisfying breath of satisfying O2 + N2, 20.9%/78.1 ratio. Just how I like it. For a moment I simply sit there feeling the power. Then I start to laugh. To some it would look insane. Maybe it is. I don’t care. Me and my 420 horseys do. not. care. I crank the radio and jam the accelerator to the floor.
venusaurI wish I could afford a 3 row electric SUV. A sentence younger me never thought I’d say.
Same, but I want a compact 3-row. Like the 3rd the row is available in case I need to carry more than 4 people, but otherwise the seats are folded down for cargo space. It’s annoying that the Kia Sorento is what fits the bill, and it’s way cheaper than the competition too. But then it’s a Kia.
What’s wrong with Kia?
Bad reliability history. They kinda turned it around in the 2010s, then the kiaboyz happened in the 2020s. I owned a Kia that was a potential target and it was so stressful owning one. I have to admit their EVs seem to be ok though. Also, I think they are one of the worst with data collection among car brands.
Kia has come a long way for reliability. Still cheap in some regard and maybe some dud engines/transmissions, but a lot better than years ago. You talking styling though?
EDIT: Ah I see you other comment about the theft. I think that was only a problem with the models that had key ignitions, no?
Yes, they had several years of models that had no immobilizers, because they wanted to save a couple of bucks. I have no issues with their styling at all, in fact I loved their quirky designs that I got a Kia Soul for that very reason. Too bad I had to let it go because no insurance company wanted to cover me, or if there was, it was insanely expensive for such a cheap car.
empireOfLove2Looks like a rebadged Toyota.
It literally is. Shared platform between this and the Highlander EV
Which raises the question: Why should Subaru continue to exist if their entire lineup in 10 years time is only shared platforms? The only thing they’ll be selling on is name recognition- their interiors or features are no better and in many cases worse than Toyota. And they sure don’t show up any cheaper either.
They’re basically a dead car company with nothing to their name. My how the giants have fallen.
Brand preference. GMC and Chevy have always released the same vehicles yet still both exist and I know more than a few people who prefer one over the other.
That aside, Subaru still checks boxes that Toyota doesn’t like the AWD Outback wagon and the AWD WRX. Here in the PNW, both brands are extremely popular.
More like Toyota owns Subaru at this point. Subaru can’t build anything innovative of their own and haven’t for a decade. RIP.
Toyota and Subaru have built numerous cars together like the BRZ/FRS, Supra, and BZ4X/Solterra
dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️- Take Crosstrek
- Remove engine, install electric powerplant
- ~250 mile range
- ~200 kW charging
- Basically just put the guts from an Ioniq 5 in it
- Keep controls the same as old car, no touch screen bullshit
- Shut up and take my money
I don’t know why automakers keep acting like this is so fucking hard to figure out.
God they couldn’t put a vent or piece of trim across where the front grille would typically be? It looks so out of proportion with the thin LED lights and off-center badge.
Grills wreak havoc on aerodynamics
They’re needed for cooling gas cars, which have so much waste heat, but they reduce range significantly
I think this looks atrocious. Grills could be redesigned to not just be a big flat piece of plastic. Or, we aren’t using the entire range all the time, so maybe it’s not the most important thing.
So many cars have been homogenized by this. I miss when cars had personality and charm.
Yeah I’m fine with no grille and I understand why EVs don’t have or need them, but this particular example looks like a whiteboard with an off-center badge slapped on top of it.
The 6 seater config looks nice, prefer captains chairs to a 2nd row bench. Initial launch will only have the bigger 95.8-kWh battery with 300+ mi range, with the “standard” 77-kWh battery coming later. Overall good to see more 3 row EVs make it to market (still wish someone would come out with another EV minivan…maybe the ID.Buzz returns in '27)
I like the idea, but I don’t expect it to be affordable. I also want to see more EVs being covered in solar panels for at least some free mileage.
Less than a mile per day. Not worth effort.
Aptera gets up to 40 per day, but that vehicle also focuses on extreme efficiency in other ways. I just wish more technology focused on practicality and efficiency.