A To A Greater Extent Than Powerful Engine Is Making Its Mode Into The Subaru Fifteen Yesteryear 2021

The American customers asked, they listened. Subaru is live addressing ane of the major complaints alongside its Subaru XV subcompact crossover come upwardly 2021 over there: it’ll cash inward one's chips a larger engine.

Tom Doll, the CEO of Subaru of America told Automotive News (subscription required) that the Japanese carmaker volition add together a novel variant to its Subaru XV line-up, at to the lowest degree inward the U.S.A. Called Subaru XV Sport, this novel variant volition come upwardly packing a 2.5-liter 4-cylinder Boxer engine. The highest cut down there, called Limited, volition also cash inward one's chips the larger engine option.

While Doll didn’t laissez passer on technical details during his interview, it’s understood that the 2.5-liter engine he’s referring to is the Forester / Outback / Legacy’s FB25 engine. This agency it’ll upwardly this subcompact crossover’s output to 182 horsepower in addition to 240 Nm of torque.

With the introduction of the FB25 inward the Subaru XV, this makes it the vehicle alongside the close varied engine choices inward the carmaker’s line-up alongside potentially 4 engine configurations: the 2.0-liter FB20, a mild-hybrid (e-BOXER), a plug-in hybrid, in addition to now, a 2.5-liter FB25.

Though the Impreza should also stand upwardly to utilization goodness from this novel engine, Doll didn’t scream whether or non Subaru’s compact motorcar volition have it every bit well. Moreover, there’s no give-and-take whether this novel engine volition live made available exterior of the U.S.A. Honestly, for Philippine marketplace conditions, the 2.0-liter engine inward the Subaru XV is enough, what’s actually needed hither is a bigger engine for its Forester.

Source: Automotive News