The Subaru Forester is now 27 years old. All grown up. Or at least no longer living in Fuji Heavy Industries' basement, where it served as a steppingstone for wannabe Outback buyers. In that role, the frumpy but friendly Forester should have withered. Instead, Subaru sold 2.7 million of them. It's tough to alter a product whose value hovers near Grand Cayman's. Especially if your buyers' median age is 62. An allnew Forester every few years? Unnecessary.

Every exterior body panel is new—check out those squaredoff wheel wells—so the car looks borderline modern. And yet the shape is somehow more generic, more forgettable, with two onlookers guessing it was "maybe an Explorer?" Dimensions are barely changed compared with the prior nonWilderness versions—0.5 inch wider and 0.6 inch greater overall length. The claimed curb weight ranges from 3510 to 3664 pounds depending on trim. So at least it's among the lightest in the class.


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