The 2021 Subaru Forester Sport is a great appliance to get you and 4 friends anywhere in relaxed comfort. It is not, however, sporty as the name suggests. Let's cover what's fact and what's fiction with this Subaru Forester Sport

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I want to walk you through some of the nuance since we haven’t been able to cover much background yet

So here in the US we have the Big 3: Ford, GM, and kinda now Stellantis, but over in Japan they have Honda, Toyota, Mazda, Nissan, and Subaru.

Subaru falls on the smaller side of these brands, but that doesnt mean they dont produce strong and compelling products.

Subaru’s brand identity, aside from being the dog lover brand is split into 2 categories which play into each other.

On the enthusiast side, Sub aru has a deep and rich world rally championship heritage. If your shrink said let’s play a word association game and then said “rally” you’d say WRX or STI

This legacy has been accomplished due to a lot of facets but more than anything else their symmetrical AWD system.

This brings us to the second category. Everyone wants an SUV and everyone wants AWD.

The beauty of Subaru is everything they sell has that symmetrical AWD system, even the base models.

And, since that AWD system is symmetrical that means it sends equal torque to the front and rear which means balance but also that’s exactly what a 4WD system does in your trucks and offroaders

So if you live anywhere you might have to deal with something other than sunshine and blue skies, Subaru should definitely be on your list.

But that’s more than enough background, let’s hand the keys to Paolo to get into what this Forester Sport is

This is the Forester Sport, but dont think that gets you a bigger engine. Every Forester gets the same 2.5L boxer 4 cylinder making 182 hp and 176 lbft and takes over 8 seconds to get to 60...so think of the Sport part of Forester Sport as an appearance package, but we’ll get to that

In terms of transmission, you have the brand standard CVT which is fine for the everyday person, but when you really look to test as we have, you start to notice some weird tuning at low speeds.

You also have paddle shifters which a lot of other brands use for their CVTs as well, but like...why?

And then from there your power goes evenly to all 4 wheels like Matt mentioned which is awesome here in WI in the winter and makes this Forester a great softroader

Now aside from a sporty body kit and the badge this really isnt sporty. It uses a fixed spring and damper setting which actually does a good job balancing the car between firm enough to put it through a corner and soft enough to be comfortable on bad pavement

As far as the general behind the wheel impressions, it’s nice. It’s relaxing to drive even if simply for the fact that it feels HUGE in here. The dash is low, the roof is high, and we’ll get into that when we talk interior