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LINCOLN MKZ PAVES WAY FOR LUXURY BRAND
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Subaru Forester
Road Test
Jim Robinson
Road Trip
Rob Beintema
still defines the compact CUV
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Riding the Prairies
HIGH RIVER, AB: While it can be successfully argued the Subaru Forester created the compact crossover; there is little doubt it defined the segment in terms of utility and capability. At the time the Forester was shown in 1995 at the Tokyo Motor Show as the Streega concept later to emerge as the Forester in 1997, competitive all-wheel-drive compact CUVs were practically nonexistent. Sure, there was the AMC Eagle that was just about to go out of production and the first generation Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. But they were smaller and the Forester boasted standard all-wheel-drive.
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The Foresters were sent out through a creek and up and down inclines that would have stopped lesser vehicles
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The 2017 Subaru Forester continues to illustrate its core values of reliability, utility and go just about anywhere all-wheel drive.
continual improvements. This results in incredible owner loyalty with the Forester being the brand’s bread and butter seller. So for 2017, Subaru stuck with a winner, making just incremental changes. There are two models each with its own “boxer” four-cylinder engine and a choice of six-speed manual or CVT transmissions and each a different all-wheel-drive sysOver the years, the Forester has tem. remained pretty true to its roots On the entry and mid-trim 2.5i with, in typical Subaru fashion, models there is a naturally aspi-
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rated version of the long serving and ultra reliable 2.5-litre “boxer” four-cylinder with 170 hp and 174 lb/ft of torque. The 2.5-litre is rated as a Partial Zero Emission Vehicle (PZEV). At the top is the 250 hp and 278-lb/ft twin scroll turbo 2.0-litre model called the 2.0XT. Fuel rating on the 2.5i CVT is 9.2/7.4L/100 (31/38 mpg) city/ highway on regular fuel. Fuel numbers on the manual are still be calculated. On premium fuel, the 2.0XT gets 10.2/8.6L/100 km (28/33
mpg). Manual AWD versions feature a viscous-coupling and self-locking limited slip centre differential that holds a constant 50/50 balance of torque between the front and rear axles. With the CVT, there is an electronically managed continuously variable transfer clutch (exclusive to Subaru) that actively manages torque distribution based on acceleration, deceleration, cornering and available traction. Turn to page W6
LEFT: The 2017 Subaru Forester continues to illustrate its core values of reliability, utility and go just about anywhere all-wheel drive. RIGHT: The interior of the 2017 Forester (Limited model shown) is well laid out with a wide choice of features available, depending on trim level.
June 2016 - “You’re not going through the prairies, are you?” people would ask. “It’s so-o-o boring.” That seemed to be the first reaction to our taking a 2016 BMW R1200RT from Toronto to Vancouver. But I wasn’t about to cut out the prairies. Besides the logic of staying under the Canadian healthcare umbrella (just in case) and avoiding U.S. exchange rates, we were simply in the mood for Canada. After Ontario, the road straightens and splits into a four-lane divided highway, the familiar “kathunk, ka-thunk” cross-seams telling you that you are enroute to Winnipeg. Traffic is sparse so we ride in the left lane, and not just because we’re from Toronto. The right side is worse-forwear, truck-rutted by the pounding passage of eighteen-wheelers. Long stretches of construction are revamping the older parts of the Trans-Canada. The constant trees give way to flat farmland, green and verdant after recent rains, the crops still too young to wave golden in the wind. And there’s nothing plain about the plains. We pass busy farms and fields that would later give way to rolling hills, dotted with cattle. The asphalt stretches on, straight as an arrow and I find the ride more soothing than boring. We had planned for a big push across the prairies. But the prairies push back. Headwinds rock the bike, gusts that would dog us most of the way west. But that was still better than my previous solo crosscountry trek twelve years ago on a 2004 BMW R1200CL . . . June 2004 - It’s been raining offand-on since Thunder Bay but at least the ruler-straight road takes the worry out of road slick conditions and the occasional nervewracking wriggle of aquaplaning. I try to keep my spirits higher than those of a sodden hitchhiker seen standing Turn to page W4
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