
What's New for 2017?Ī new top trim level is added: Touring. It’s not the most exciting thing to drive, but the Outback’s reasonably fuel-efficient powertrains, standard all-wheel drive, and myriad available advanced safety features make the versatile Subie an agreeable and comfortable five-passenger utility vehicle.


Although the Outback’s exterior proportions edge it closer to the wagon side of the equation, this high-riding hatch’s SUV-like ground clearance and resultant raised seating position move it back toward the realm of crossovers.

If you were to draw a Venn diagram with station wagons making up the left circle and crossovers the right, then the Subaru Outback would fall squarely in the middle, where the two circles overlap.
