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Quick Spin: 2011 Subaru Forester
Filed under: Crossover, Subaru, Quick Spin
New Engine Helps Smooth Out Most Rough Edges 2011 Subaru Forester - Click above for high-res image gallery In the years since Subaru last gave its workhorse flat four-cylinder engine a significant revision, an entire generation of customers has gone from pulling up their Huggies to donning college graduation gowns. More than two full decades have passed since the company's engineers seriously sat down to re-examine the engine's architecture, and in that time, there's been an explosion of automotive technology geared toward squeezing every last bit of energy out of a drop of gasoline. With fuel economy and emissions standards growing tighter by the day, the minds at Fuji Heavy Industries, Subaru's parent company, unveiled the third-generation of their boxer engine recently. But at first blush, the new heir to the Pleiades throne looks to be little more than a carbon copy of its predecessor. Horsepower, torque and fuel economy figures are all within a shave of the old engine's numbers, and while the company's competitors are investing heavily in direct-injection systems, Subaru passed on this tech all together. Where was the improvement? Judging by the specs alone, we had to wonder why Subaru went through the trouble of building an entirely new facility just to produce what looked to be the same old beating heart we'd known and loved for years. We jumped behind the wheel of the 2011 Forester to find out just what had changed beneath the hood of its all-wheel-drive family hauler. Continue reading... Gallery: 2011 Subaru Forester: Quick Spin Photos copyright (C)2010 Zach Bowman / AOLContinue reading Quick Spin: 2011 Subaru Forester Quick Spin: 2011 Subaru Forester originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments More... |
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