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Chris (not verified)    July 31, 2024 - 1:26PM

I have the opposite perspective. After owning four Subarus consecutively, I very much miss the simplicity of some of our previous vehicles. The eyesight system is great for our insurance premiums, and the adaptive cruise control can be handy on rare occasions, I still prefer some of the less automated options.

In 2014, the Outback was still available. Five-speed manual transmission. This transmission distributes power 50% to the front and 50% to the rear at all times, through a very simple and inexpensive center differential. These manual transmissions were among the last in Subaru's lineup that drove "like a Subaru." The modern automatic transmissions distribute power with heavy bias to the front, much the same as Toyota, Mazda, Honda, and every other all-wheel drive offering on the market. They simply don't drive like a Subaru.

Additionally, having had eyesight on my current Subaru and our previous 2020 Outback, I can say with confidence that adaptive cruise control is the least fuel efficient way to drive. The eyesight system is constantly adjusting throttle and brake application to achieve that perfect comfortable drive. At the cost of around a 20% increase in fuel usage. In my experience. I rarely use the adaptive cruise control now for this reason.

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