That's an adequate amount of power not overwhelming, but the Outback also never felt underpowered, even off-road. "Providing torque for all of that trail riding is a new standard engine: A 2.5-liter Boxer four-cylinder engine - borrowed from the Forester - that makes 182 horsepower and 176 pound-feet of torque. The CVT does its job just not with any joy." - Car and Driver On steep hills or leaving a stoplight, it does more of an impression of stepped-on chewing gum-streeeeeatch, and there we go, we're moving now. It's backed by a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT), which does its best to pretend to be an eight-speed but can't always maintain the illusion.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |