The Next-Generation 2025 Subaru Outback Announcement And What’s Coming

Subaru of America will announce the remodeled 2025 Subaru Outback next, which could be coming soon. The next-generation 2025 Outback will get significant upgrades from the 2024 model year. Here is what I know so far.

Planet Subaru says the all-new Outback for the 2025 model year will come with new exterior styling, interior, infotainment, and upgraded safety features. There is no further information there you didn't know. 

But Planet Subaru says the 2025 Outback "Maybe even a new gas engine with even better fuel economy." I think Subaru will launch the new Outback with a hybrid powertrain. 

There is no electric Outback yet.

Planet Subaru says, "We can say with considerable certainty that there will be no all-electric Outback for 2025 because Subaru introduced a dedicated battery-electric vehicle (the Solterra, in the 2023 model year) and it's similar to the Outback."

"To meet ever-more-demanding emissions regulations, however, we wouldn't be surprised to see Subaru lean on its engineering partner Toyota to offer a hybrid engine option similar to the Crosstrek Hybrid powertrain."

Could the new Outback get hybrid power?

This is speculation as Subaru is always tight-lipped about future product plans, and the automaker has made no announcements about the 2025 Outback. 

I have written before that the Outback needs a hybrid powertrain to compete with the Toyota Highlander Hybrid, Ford Explorer Hybrid, and Jeep Grand Cherokee Hybrid.

Subaru offers a 1.8-liter turbocharged direct-injection (DIT) engine in the Japanese-specification 2024 Outback. Subaru could couple the small turbocharged engine with the hybrid technology they are now developing with Toyota. 

Subaru has not confirmed the 2025 Outback information, but it fits their goals and the Japanese automaker's revamped vision plan they announced earlier. We know now the 2025 Forester will get a new hybrid trim level, so it would make sense for Subaru to do the same with the next-generation Outback.

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In January, Subaru of America revealed the redesigned Outback in a private meeting with its U.S. dealers. Limited information was disclosed about what the Subaru dealers saw and heard. 

Jeff Williams, owner of Williams Subaru in Lansing, Michigan, told Automotive News that he predicted if production constraints fade away by the redesigned Outback's introduction, the new midsize SUV will return to its dominance in SOA's all-wheel-drive lineup as the automaker's top-selling model again.

As I've reported before, a fuel-stingy 2025 Subaru Outback Hybrid could be the model to propel the vehicle upward again. Stay tuned for the 2025 Subaru Outback announcement from Subaru. 

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Thanks for reading, everyone. I hope you enjoyed this next-generation Subaru Outback story. See you tomorrow for my latest Subaru Report.

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