Is Subaru AWD The Best? - A New Crosstrek Sport Just Failed The "Slip Test"

these guys always bash Subaru for some reason ..The Fast Lane Car

I love my Forester. It would be nice if it could still pass these tests. They really should be simple to pass with a single wheel on pavement

UMMM...unless I read that wrong 6 times...it made it off the rollers for every test. How is that a fail?

**Reporter Lies In Headline**

As I've commented elsewhere - they also hamstrung the Subie in this video by being too light with the throttle. It can't shift power around when you keep getting off the gas!

Meh. Did the Subie pass the test and get off the rollers? Yep. " That was way to hard for a Subaru" sounds like the local lady at my local city council meeting that stated it was way to hard for her to stop her bicycle at a stop sign and get moving again. Now we have a State law that bicyclist treat stop signs as yield signs. Whaaa.

Wait a minute, not only is that Subie set up on rollers it also looks like the it is set up an a pretty good incline. So fighting rollers and gravity. Still pulled itself off the rollers regardless of the driver (sucking in air) having to press button or turn a dial to XMode.

this is a very misleading article. The Subaru passed every time. The people that wrote this should be ashamed.

I took my '21 Outback Onyx with multi X-Mode for a drive in the Nor'Easter snowfall yesterday to familiarize myself with its capabilities and use.

Two observations.
One: The steep streets passable to the first or second vehicles became compressed white ice and vehicles were curbed all over the sloped streets, in messy clots at the bottom of steep ones. My car in the snow/dirt setting ascended and descended all pitches without wheelspin or skidding, including going at walking speed up the steepest hill past a CRV whose driver was unable to stand next to his shiny Honda that had just hard curbed itself after spinning down the hill.

Two: Other vehicles moving about on the lesser slopes include a RAV4, several undistinguishable midsize GM SUVs and a KIA that were all spinning and locking wheels alternately to my observation as I drove along with fully controlled all wheel drive.

I never needed the deep snow mode for up or down the big hills. The only folks on them had failed and parked or nearly wrecked and were stuck as a result of trying. These surfaces were so slick that standing or walking without handhold wasn't possible.

I'm going to say that TFL's results showed something, but the methodology is so far removed from what you need out of an "AWD" vehicle that it should be discredited by real world experiences compared to its testing outcomes.

They're full of shit... I have a 2002 Subaru Outback with 295,000 original miles. And I'll put my car up against any test they have anytime. These individuals that supposedly are the "experts"... WE'RE THE EXPERTS! THE CONSUMERS! WE DRIVE THEM EVERYDAY!
SUBARU IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!

That video does not prove anything. With any other manufacture CUV similar engines and powertrain have same result. Only proving that SUVs/CUVs can do all testes are equipped with more powerful engine. low range transfer case, lock diff.
Don't forget, those people in tfl aren't engineers, or with any technical expertise.

Come on, your article says it passed once put into the appropriate mode. Click bate is one thing, outright lies are another. I expect better of you.

They never turned off traction control during the test...

I'm pretty sure they have a viscous coupling differential, meaning the wheel HAS to slip for it to work. We've had 8 Subarus. I'll take their system over anyone elses. We've never had a failure or a breakage of any part of the AWD system. The proof is in the pudding!

So,your headline is a LIE!

Lol. Subaru gomers being Subaru gomers. Love the "I'd take a subie over anything ever!" Have you actually driven any other AWD car?

Subaru is the worst. I love driving in the snow, everything from cars to tractor trailers. I headed out in a huge snowstorm looking for some sliding. No cars on the road, just me out having fun.

I purposely put my Forester into a low speed four wheel side slide. I turned my front wheels in the direction I wanted to go and hit the gas.

The Forester had other plans.

Sensing the spin on the wheels, it applied the brakes to my front wheels to transfer the power to the rear wheels, effectively shooting me across into the far curb with my front wheels cut hard to the right.

Three thousand dollars of damage. It wasn't until I dug deep into the "Symmetrical" system and found out that it is a 80% front and 20% rear and the way it transfers power in the event of front wheels spinning is to apply the brakes, even in the middle of a turn. The traction control off button doesn't do anything.

It is only safety for people who don't know how to drive.

boy, this comment section is full of simps

Many can't accept Subaru's obviously superior traction system. Imagine a naked super model, some of these critics might say, " OK but there's too much skin."