We had a 2021 XV in the 1.6 litre boxer engine. Was the latest model but they were retiring the 1.6 model so we had a brand new, unregistered car for £24,500. That was about £6k off. A real bargain. Sure, the 1.6 was pretty gutless but the 2.0l e-boxer didn’t feel much better as it felt like it had been de-tuned to meet emissions standards. It was lovely to drive if you didn’t need to hammer it everywhere. Living in the Pennines - was perfect for the terrain and felt more secure than everyone else on the road. Other than this Crosstrek is massively overpriced, I’d recommend any Subaru model.
I like the fact he shows the previous version, the XV, but is actually not the later model which came out after 2021. The wheels are different and it also got the SI drive upgrade. I think he misses the point a bit about this Crosstrek. Great professional review but we need to understand that this is not a sports car. The CVT is not designed to be treated as one as it needs to catch up with engine speeds. Flooring it WILL make the engine sound noisy but I’ve just watched another video and it picks up speed very well joining a fast carriageway without the revs getting beyond 4k. CVT and the way it works best is seriously misunderstood. You cannot compare the dynamics with a DSG for example. This is also a NA engine, no turbo. It is designed for smooth progress which it does perfectly well so long as you understand its purpose.
Have the 2024 Crosstrek. Love it but for £36+k wish it had front parking sensors or at least a 360 camera. Power hatch would have been nice too. Oh and wireless charging. Maybe a heated steering wheel. Not asking the earth - that's All available in other markets.
Omg people today. I have none of that, nobody needs all that nonsense. Parking sensors LOL cant you judge the length of your car ? Power hatch ? Getting ridiculous now. Just open and close it with your hands, it’s not hard to do. Wireless charging for goodness sake, use a cable like most people. Heated steering wheel ? Have you got Raynaud’s disease ? Your comment says so much about whats wrong with society today. Relying on tech, wanting everything easy and convenient. How would you manage back in the 1980s when cars were very basic ?
Why not buy a car that DOES have all those features then ? If you love the car then you accept it for what it is. Its like buying your perfect house and then moaning it doesn’t have a driveway or the garden is too small, and don’t like being overlooked at the back.
They're not as tough as they make themselves out to be, and the majority of their official dealerships here in the UK don't seem to be set up for anything more strenuous than a panel smoothing or re-tune. A month after pick-up of my ex-demo Crosstrek '24, Eye Sight shut down. Turns out my front wheels are all out of alignment. Dealership blames a parking-speed impact on an alloy wheel against the corner of a low brick wall for it (there's scrape marks on one alloy). Which happened three weeks prior. They can't fix it because they're worried there's "hidden damage", and they're not "Subaru Body Approved". An official dealership. Not approved to work on Subarus. They might as well be a valeting service. Compounded by the fact they didn't know what to do next - They told me to drive my safety-disabled car with "hidden damage" to another dealership "Who have the facilities we lack". Turns out after lengthy phone calls, They're not "Subaru body approved" either. My dealership promise to phone me back w a solution/where to go. They don't. So I contact Subaru UK. Who reply by email saying yes it's your fault because your dealership says so, contact your insurance company they'll have a list of Subaru Body Approved workshops. I reply w choice words lol, but also chastise them for their lousy customer service and why won't they supply me w a list of SBA workshops. Because, you guessed it, my insurance company arranges pick up w a recovery and workshop service, who my dealership then says, You're not Subaru Body Approved! You'll void all the warranties....The recovery service phones me, asking me what to do. I say , talk to the insurance company - Let them fight against Subaru to get service for my car. Thinking of getting a Subaru in the UK. or indeed in any "boutique" market in Europe? Just *don't*. If something goes wrong (and c'mon, it's a soft offroader so you're likely going to physically stress the car more, leading to a higher probability of there being a problem), you will be in trouble. It's just not worth the potential aggro.
I have the 2023 Crosstrek PHEV and absolutely love it. I really hope that they offer a PHEV version of the Crosstrek again in a few years.
Nicely balanced review.
Glad you enjoyed it
We had a 2021 XV in the 1.6 litre boxer engine. Was the latest model but they were retiring the 1.6 model so we had a brand new, unregistered car for £24,500. That was about £6k off. A real bargain. Sure, the 1.6 was pretty gutless but the 2.0l e-boxer didn’t feel much better as it felt like it had been de-tuned to meet emissions standards. It was lovely to drive if you didn’t need to hammer it everywhere. Living in the Pennines - was perfect for the terrain and felt more secure than everyone else on the road. Other than this Crosstrek is massively overpriced, I’d recommend any Subaru model.
I like the fact he shows the previous version, the XV, but is actually not the later model which came out after 2021. The wheels are different and it also got the SI drive upgrade. I think he misses the point a bit about this Crosstrek. Great professional review but we need to understand that this is not a sports car. The CVT is not designed to be treated as one as it needs to catch up with engine speeds. Flooring it WILL make the engine sound noisy but I’ve just watched another video and it picks up speed very well joining a fast carriageway without the revs getting beyond 4k. CVT and the way it works best is seriously misunderstood. You cannot compare the dynamics with a DSG for example. This is also a NA engine, no turbo. It is designed for smooth progress which it does perfectly well so long as you understand its purpose.
Have the 2024 Crosstrek. Love it but for £36+k wish it had front parking sensors or at least a 360 camera. Power hatch would have been nice too. Oh and wireless charging. Maybe a heated steering wheel. Not asking the earth - that's All available in other markets.
Omg people today. I have none of that, nobody needs all that nonsense. Parking sensors LOL cant you judge the length of your car ? Power hatch ? Getting ridiculous now. Just open and close it with your hands, it’s not hard to do. Wireless charging for goodness sake, use a cable like most people. Heated steering wheel ? Have you got Raynaud’s disease ? Your comment says so much about whats wrong with society today. Relying on tech, wanting everything easy and convenient. How would you manage back in the 1980s when cars were very basic ?
Why not buy a car that DOES have all those features then ? If you love the car then you accept it for what it is. Its like buying your perfect house and then moaning it doesn’t have a driveway or the garden is too small, and don’t like being overlooked at the back.
They're not as tough as they make themselves out to be, and the majority of their official dealerships here in the UK don't seem to be set up for anything more strenuous than a panel smoothing or re-tune. A month after pick-up of my ex-demo Crosstrek '24, Eye Sight shut down. Turns out my front wheels are all out of alignment. Dealership blames a parking-speed impact on an alloy wheel against the corner of a low brick wall for it (there's scrape marks on one alloy). Which happened three weeks prior. They can't fix it because they're worried there's "hidden damage", and they're not "Subaru Body Approved". An official dealership. Not approved to work on Subarus. They might as well be a valeting service.
Compounded by the fact they didn't know what to do next - They told me to drive my safety-disabled car with "hidden damage" to another dealership "Who have the facilities we lack". Turns out after lengthy phone calls, They're not "Subaru body approved" either. My dealership promise to phone me back w a solution/where to go. They don't.
So I contact Subaru UK. Who reply by email saying yes it's your fault because your dealership says so, contact your insurance company they'll have a list of Subaru Body Approved workshops. I reply w choice words lol, but also chastise them for their lousy customer service and why won't they supply me w a list of SBA workshops. Because, you guessed it, my insurance company arranges pick up w a recovery and workshop service, who my dealership then says, You're not Subaru Body Approved! You'll void all the warranties....The recovery service phones me, asking me what to do. I say , talk to the insurance company - Let them fight against Subaru to get service for my car.
Thinking of getting a Subaru in the UK. or indeed in any "boutique" market in Europe? Just *don't*. If something goes wrong (and c'mon, it's a soft offroader so you're likely going to physically stress the car more, leading to a higher probability of there being a problem), you will be in trouble. It's just not worth the potential aggro.
Ah no more Fuji Heavy Industry, they've long taken the brand name and renamed the entire company Subaru Corporation in 2017
Only 992 litres of boot space. My little Peugeot 208 has 1106.
Because the 208 doesn’t have batteries in it. You do realise thats why the Subaru boot floor is not so deep surely ???
@@oddities-whatnot All the more reason not to buy it,