REVIEW | The 2019 Subaru Forester is a useful and capable SUV

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The Forester is now more visually dramatic than its predecessors, while retaining the ability to deal with both tarmac and difficult terrain and offering a cosseting drive quality.

It has been restyled with distinctive C-shaped tail lights and LED headlights, but retains its characteristically boxy styling. Picture: SUPPLIED

It takes a few steers to discover that this fifth-generation Forester has truly gone upscale and sophisticated, with a step-up in refinement, size and docility on past iterations. Great strides have been made in build quality and outside noise cancellation, but the biggest change is the uniform engine option of a naturally aspirated 2.0Outputs in the 2.0 are 115kW and 196Nm, a far cry from what fans of the brand are used to but, for the most part, this flat-four engine and its Lineartronic CVT driving all four wheels is efficient in its power delivery.

 

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