SUBARU OUTBACK ESTATE READER REVIEWS

My car

I bought a used 2009 2.0D SE Navplus model just over a month ago.

It is relaxing and comfortable to drive, with good alround visibility, and tall wing mirrows are great. I achieve between 51-53 mpg on motorway journeys and between 45-50 mpg on shorter trips. The eletronic parking brake takes getting used to, however you can release it be just gently accelerating away. There is some body lean on twisty B roads, but that is often because I found myself going faster due to the traction from the all wheel wheel drive. It holds the road well in the wet. I've been off road in it, on rutted and muddy farm tracks, fields, and also up rocky tracks to mountain huts and it takes it in its stride. Just remember to slow down off road if you don't want to get bumped around! I am 6 foot and when driving there is room for another 6 footer behind me, without knees in my back. Great for my mountaineering trips.

The large touch screen sat nav is great, especially as it allows me to enter latitude and longitude for some of the more remote mountain locations I visit. The DVD player will play MP3 DVDs, with a DVD holding about 450 tracks or so. It also has aux input for ipod or mp3 no more crackly IPOD radio tuneins! Bluetooth hands free phone works flawlessly. Climate control works well, heated seats get hot really quickly. Negotiated full size spare wheel, towbar and electrics, when buying. Not fan of repair kits based on previous experience.

Very pleased with car, as is wife