2014 Subaru Forester

[LoBudget]

Thats the sad part, the base is not easily upgradable to the XT type reverse camera.

The XT is definitely the sweet deal as it has a DI engine and a Turbo plus everything else, but the price!!! Totally worth what your getting, but its just out of my cost comfort zone. Since I dint know that the base is not a direct injection I'll add that to the revised list of the things I wish the base had: DI engine, reverse camera, paddle shifters, sports# and better rims. I havent seen any comments around here but perhaps a 6AT would have been better than the CVT...

In the power comparison charts its a bit wanting considering the CX-5 has a more powerful engine, which I think can be matched if they used the DI from the XT.

[JackFlash]

It's got a big sunroof. As in umaabot halos sa rear seats. 2 of my friends who were seated on the rear asked me to open the sunroof and they were able to stand up and fit

to be fair though, i don't really have much use for it apart from showing it off to people.

The only time I got to use the sunroof in my XT was in Subic, at night and on the NLEX, also at night. Decided to close it when I was about to overtake some buses. Knowing the Pinoy's bad habit of throwing things or worse, spitting out their windows, I thought, "Better safe than sorry."

[T|tan]

I suppose its more useful for out of town things and if you want to sleep in the car and watch the stars... Do people have the glass tinted or not at all since it has a cover anyway? Maybe the removal of the sunroof and downsizing it on the XT was to save weight.

I have my FXT tinted with Vkool V70 all around plus sunroof. What I recommend if you are on a budget. High heat rejection tint on the windshield and the rest you do with normal tint. I do not recommend having the sunroof tinted with high heat rejection reason; although there is high heat rejection, there is also heat being stored on the glass due to the heat rejecting tint parang greenhouse effect. You can however tint the sunroof with normal tint and it will work fine. Our SF3 uses normal 3m tint on all glass windows including sunroof, except windshield where more heat is evident in my opinion and experience. disclaimer, although in comparison the SF3 is new and has a panoramic sunroof it may be also due to the glass technology used with it which rejects the heat without any help from heat rejecting tint.

Our sunroof shade is always open except on days when the sun is up on its temper, hot and glaring.

[andrei0546]

I saw one last saturday! A silver one with dealer plates. don't know how to post photos. hmmm.

[koji kabuto]

I saw one last saturday! A silver one with dealer plates. don't know how to post photos. hmmm.

you can create an account with Photo and image hosting, free photo galleries, photo editing. upload your pictures there then copy paste the IMG link.

[April_Ryan]

Initially review by CarguidePH is out:

************ - Philippine Car News, Test Drives, and Prices: The Epic Journey: Driving the 2013 Subaru Forester to Sagada

[cfule]

got my unit, pearl white 2.0 XT FC is 11.4 liters per 100km according to trip computer (8.77km/L). did full tank, consume, then full tank again. my mano mano compute is 8.05km/L. from alabang going to makati via skyway with occasional WOT, then makati to quezon province via slex and national hiway with lots of WOT for overtaking hehe.

travelled: 153.75km
refilled fuel: 19.08 liters
km/L: 8.05km/L 20% city, 80% hiway, with lots of WOT

im sure i can improve this by not spooling the turbo too much

loaded 56 liters of petron blaze 100 ron fuel from alabang (full tank)
reloaded 19.08 liters of XCS only at quezon province (full tank), since no blaze available

[jdjoeydean]

got my unit, pearl white 2.0 XT FC is 11.4 liters per 100km according to trip computer (8.77km/L). did full tank, consume, then full tank again. my mano mano compute is 8.05km/L. from alabang going to makati via skyway with occasional WOT, then makati to quezon province via slex and national hiway with lots of WOT for overtaking hehe.

travelled: 153.75km
refilled fuel: 19.08 liters
km/L: 8.05km/L 20% city, 80% hiway, with lots of WOT

im sure i can improve this by not spooling the turbo too much

loaded 56 liters of petron blaze 100 ron fuel from alabang (full tank)
reloaded 19.08 liters of XCS only at quezon province (full tank), since no blaze available

Pictures please... if you don't mind po. Thanks.

[EQAddict]

congrats. hows the powah !!!!!!!!!

[LoBudget]

Initially review by CarguidePH is out:

************ - Philippine Car News, Test Drives, and Prices: The Epic Journey: Driving the 2013 Subaru Forester to Sagada

Nice, hopefully this means they now have test drive units of the NA version. It looks like the test drive units they used have been here in Manila for a while now... the conduction stickers are still white...

[LoBudget]

got my unit, pearl white 2.0 XT FC is 11.4 liters per 100km according to trip computer (8.77km/L). did full tank, consume, then full tank again. my mano mano compute is 8.05km/L. from alabang going to makati via skyway with occasional WOT, then makati to quezon province via slex and national hiway with lots of WOT for overtaking hehe.

travelled: 153.75km
refilled fuel: 19.08 liters
km/L: 8.05km/L 20% city, 80% hiway, with lots of WOT

im sure i can improve this by not spooling the turbo too much

loaded 56 liters of petron blaze 100 ron fuel from alabang (full tank)
reloaded 19.08 liters of XCS only at quezon province (full tank), since no blaze available

Lucky! I was told that orders would arrive in April, looks like there is a line already.

[desmosedici]

Curious as well about the power delivery via the CVT?

[cfule]

sorry for not posting pics yet, been busy the whole day. there is indeed a que already for orders. it just so happened that my bank agent is a top rank bank employee and they cant say no to her hehe, and my papers are trouble free (for loan), kumpleto na agad, paspasan (excited), kaya makakarelease agad ng unit. when i got mine mar19, it was only the 3rd day that subaru is releasing units manila wide.

regarding for the power, my only point of reference to compare the new forester xt are these cars that we own:
2006 civic 2.0, paddle shift (mine)
2007 jazz 1.5 CVT
2009 tucson crdi

and oh boy, what sweet power it gives! at normal mode, INTELLIGENT setting, it feels like a conventional CVT of the jazz, lags instantaneous power, rubber band feel. put it in SPORT SHARP mode, shifter in M mode, and use the paddle shifters, i cant believe its a CVT! it holds its rev, and keeps the turbo spool happy!

[jdjoeydean]

sorry for not posting pics yet, been busy the whole day. there is indeed a que already for orders. it just so happened that my bank agent is a top rank bank employee and they cant say no to her hehe, and my papers are trouble free (for loan), kumpleto na agad, paspasan (excited), kaya makakarelease agad ng unit. when i got mine mar19, it was only the 3rd day that subaru is releasing units manila wide.

regarding for the power, my only point of reference to compare the new forester xt are these cars that we own:
2006 civic 2.0, paddle shift (mine)
2007 jazz 1.5 CVT
2009 tucson crdi

and oh boy, what sweet power it gives! at normal mode, INTELLIGENT setting, it feels like a conventional CVT of the jazz, lags instantaneous power, rubber band feel. put it in SPORT SHARP mode, shifter in M mode, and use the paddle shifters, i cant believe its a CVT! it holds its rev, and keeps the turbo spool happy!

Congrats Sir.

[marktams86]

more interior photos:

2.0i



XT

yung HU parang sa Suzuki lang...

[JohnM]

Looks like a standard 2-din. Madali lang palitan. Di na kelangan ng faceplate adapter

[T|tan]

got my unit, pearl white 2.0 XT FC is 11.4 liters per 100km according to trip computer (8.77km/L). did full tank, consume, then full tank again. my mano mano compute is 8.05km/L. from alabang going to makati via skyway with occasional WOT, then makati to quezon province via slex and national hiway with lots of WOT for overtaking hehe.

travelled: 153.75km
refilled fuel: 19.08 liters
km/L: 8.05km/L 20% city, 80% hiway, with lots of WOT

im sure i can improve this by not spooling the turbo too much

loaded 56 liters of petron blaze 100 ron fuel from alabang (full tank)
reloaded 19.08 liters of XCS only at quezon province (full tank), since no blaze available

Share your FC of your new FXT. Sweet ride, I was at MI GH the other day and had a good feel of it. Congrats and enjoy!

[Calistro]

Congrats sir! Woner how Subaru's claimed FC on Manila roads fares :D That's going to be sweet, when the XT will be capable of ~15 km/l. Feedback from another forum is that the 2.0 FXS can do XV-like numbers (~10 city driving) as per the on board computer.

[LoBudget]

Congrats sir! Woner how Subaru's claimed FC on Manila roads fares :D That's going to be sweet, when the XT will be capable of ~15 km/l. Feedback from another forum is that the 2.0 FXS can do XV-like numbers (~10 city driving) as per the on board computer.

Did you mean the 2.0i-L with CVT or the XS which as 4AT? Should we just call it the L, the NA, the FL, the FNA?? :S

I am hoping that the numbers pan out close to the XV since they have the same engine but the Forester is just slightly heavier. Too bad they dint make it DI like on the XT, it might have made some HP difference.

Does anyone know if the XT has a different CVT than the non-Turbo Forester, as the article from that other website seems to differentiate it as a high-torque CVT for the XT. However MI rep said they have the same transmission.

[cfule]

Did you mean the 2.0i-L with CVT or the XS which as 4AT? Should we just call it the L, the NA, the FL, the FNA?? :S

I am hoping that the numbers pan out close to the XV since they have the same engine but the Forester is just slightly heavier. Too bad they dint make it DI like on the XT, it might have made some HP difference.

Does anyone know if the XT has a different CVT than the non-Turbo Forester, as the article from that other website seems to differentiate it as a high-torque CVT for the XT. However MI rep said they have the same transmission.

The MI rep is probably right on saying that they are both CVT. Sometimes we, the enthusiasts, knows better about our car than them. when i was getting my XT unit last mar19 and the sales rep was walking me through the car before handing me the keys, i got most of the features correct than the sales rep. According to numerous review sites from the US and australia, the XT indeed has a different kind of CVT to handle all that power.