As for Rome, do like the Romans. With a ski trip planned for Winter Park, Colorado, I asked the official Colorado * vehicle ( * this is not one thing), a Subaru, to brave the time of the mountain. I was rewarded with a 2025 Subaru Forester Sport In a beautiful sapphire blue pearl. My goal was to find out why so many coloradans opt for subarus.
I spent a week with the Forester Sport, braving the cold and the snow, driving in both directions to the ski resort of Mary Jane and driving to the airport in a snowstorm. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of the new Forester Sport.
With a starting price of $ 36,030, including destination costs of $ 1,420, the Forester Sport is a lot of vehicle for the price, and it is the Forester that we recommend. Like the premium model below, it improves the standard 7.0 -inch touch screens for infotainment and navigation with a tablet screen in 11.6 compressed style with Apple wireless and Android Auto. It also happens to softer padding, in synthetic leather instead of a fabric padding and a 10 -inch driver’s seat instead of manual controls. The other standard features include a satellite radio test, a WiFi hotspot, heated front seats and side mirrors, a keyless entrance, roof rails and a sunroof. Sport in the Forester Sport comes in the form of 19 -inch bronze alloy wheels (instead of 17s), chrome badges and bronze inside and outside, black exterior garnish bits, System palette pallets in X mode with a deep snow / mud function which reduces traction control to pass a slippery terrain.
The Forester Sport is powered by a 2.5-liter dish which makes a modest 180 hp and 178 lb-ft of couple. It is executed towards four wheels via an automatic transmission with continuous variation with eight simulated speed ratios. It is less power than most of the competition, including the greatest Toyota Rav4. I am not a CVT fan for their rubber sensation, but this is often corrected when they have simulated quarters. Despite the simulated quarters of work, the Forester Sport always had this feeling in speed / speed ratio rubber. He also did not strengthen the speed quickly and had trouble reaching the highway speeds in the 8,800 altitude feet of Winter Park. The Forester Sport has Subaru if reader With smart (i) and Sharp sport (S #) modes. These control the parameters of the engine, the accelerator and the transmission, I am the default mode, based on the economy and the S # triggering a sharper accelerator, higher diets and more engine responses Quick to help go out in front of traffic. S # no longer adds power, however, so that did not help in the few cases where I wanted to reach higher speeds.
The Forester Sport standard symmetrical all -wheel drive Make it ready for the mountain. The system continuously moves power to tires with more traction, and it also has a X mode system With normal modes, snow / dirt and deep snow / mud. X modes use the stability control system to reduce the rotation of individual wheels and send this power to tires with adhesion. It also adjusts the gear reports and the engine output for better traction. The deep snow / mud mode can stop the traction control to advance the vehicle when it is slippery.
I did not need to change the X mode X parameters to obtain more traction for the tires Bridgestone Turanza El450 on damp roads, roads with a layer of wrapped snow, or even on the highway during a storm snow. If we had obtained fresh powder during my stay, I would have searched the modes to optimize the traction. The Bridgestones were up to my trip, but if I lived in the mountains, I would go with tires of all more aggressive seasons such as crossclimate2 Michelin or opted for snow tires.
A ski trip means to pack a lot: a large suitcase, a training bag, a ski bag and my backpack. This is part of the management of the Subaru with space for another set of the same thing. The Forester Sport has a very useful loading space of 27.5 cubes behind the rear seat, which extends to 69.1 cubic feet with the folded back seat. I did not use the rear seat, but with 39.4 inches of leg space, it is adult.
Temperatures exceeding about 5 degrees over a few days, my fingers suited the hot embrace of a heated steering wheel (my buttocks appreciated the standard seat radiators). The roads covered with a combination of snow and dirt also attenuated the headlights, so the headlight rings would be useful. Instead, I rinsed them with snow.
These are just minor badges. The Forester Sport is well suited to mountain driving and the service of active lifestyle. Coloradans know their belongings.
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2025 Subaru Forester Sport
Basic price: $ 36,030, including $ 1,420 destination fees
Price as tested: $ 37,730
Transmission: Flat-4 of 2.5 liters of 180 horsepower, AWD
EPA fuel economy: 25/32/28 MPG
Success: An active lifestyle and a family value, a good interior space, an effective all -wheel drive
Shortcomings: Rubber transmission, mediocre power, could use more bad weather characteristics