My wife drives a LOT of miles for her job. She has a three year old Honda HRV that will roll over 100K this month. That vehicle is the 7th new Honda that we have purchased for our family since 2000. It has been an excellent, trouble free vehicle the entire time. Our Honda dealership changed ownership last year and the transition has not gone well. The previous owners set the bar real high for customer service. The new owners don’t seem to understand the concept. That has us back on the market for another brand of vehicle. To get to the point, my wife is close to ordering a Subaru Forester Touring model. We just learned that Subaru no longer offers the Forester in a 6-cylinder or a 4-cylinder turbo. For those that have experience with the Forester, does the base 4-cylinder model, now the only engine available, provide enough power to navigate the hills of Pennsylvania? Is it quick enough to keep up with the “big dogs” on the interstates? As nice as it would be, we really don’t need it to be able to keep pace with the hot rod WRX, but we also don’t want to be struggling to keep pace with traffic on the interstate, especially when we encounter the many mountains that we traverse every day.
Your thoughts?