Anyone who has owned earlier Subaru AWDs is well aware that great fuel economy was not among their virtues.
Our '09 Forester would always yield fuel economy about 15% inferior to what we saw from our '99 Accord, although the Accord was a stick which probably helped.
We are now about 2300 miles into the '17 Forester we bought four weeks ago. Imagine my surprise in finding that the Subie actually yields about 10% better fuel economy in similar driving conditions than our '12 Accord, which is also around 200 pounds lighter than the Forester and obviously has fewer driven parts, lacking drive to the rear wheels.
On my wife's commute, the Accord averaged around 28 mpg while the 'roo is giving around 31 mpg.
My wife's one reservation about buying another Forester involved fuel economy and that proved to be unfounded.
Just a bit of anecdotal data for anyone looking to buy an AWD in this size range who might be concerned about fuel economy.
Our '09 Forester would always yield fuel economy about 15% inferior to what we saw from our '99 Accord, although the Accord was a stick which probably helped.
We are now about 2300 miles into the '17 Forester we bought four weeks ago. Imagine my surprise in finding that the Subie actually yields about 10% better fuel economy in similar driving conditions than our '12 Accord, which is also around 200 pounds lighter than the Forester and obviously has fewer driven parts, lacking drive to the rear wheels.
On my wife's commute, the Accord averaged around 28 mpg while the 'roo is giving around 31 mpg.
My wife's one reservation about buying another Forester involved fuel economy and that proved to be unfounded.
Just a bit of anecdotal data for anyone looking to buy an AWD in this size range who might be concerned about fuel economy.