Subaru Forester tS served in Moscow Motor Show 2012

Moscow Motor Show 2012: Subaru Forester tS presentation. The Moscow Motor Show has become a meeting point for manufacturers of east and west, counting in this edition of 2012 with leading news from all over the world. Presentations among which includes the new Subaru Forester tS, a model that incorporated mechanical equipment and the sports cars of the Japanese, which has provided a significant improvement in terms of dynamic performance, sport appearance and versatility of your engine. A comprehensive list of details with which this model can win many converts, especially among those seeking powerful SUVs.

The new Subaru Forester tS is the result of significant developments, a new phase marked by major changes besides aesthetic level, by a series of adjustments and modifications to items such as suspensions, springs and the direction that manage to give it a dynamic behavior much more efficient. Aspects to which must be added the presence of an engine already known in other models of the Japanese, as the Subaru Impreza, which is a guarantee of good performance.

2.5 turbo boxer engine
the new engine comes from Subaru Forester tS sports models Subaru STi identified with the firm. These cars have a 2.5 turbo boxer engine with multi-valve cylinder head, capable of reaching 263 hp and a maximum torque of 347 Nm. A block now incorporated this terrain, allowing you to achieve a top speed of 224 km / h and accelerate from 0 to 100 km / h in 6.5 seconds starting from standing as approved data.

That engine has the new Subaru Forester tS to obtain consumption data of 10.5 l/100 km, leaving their emissions to 248 g / hm carbon dioxide. A figure somewhat high considering the objectives of all brands with the launch of SUV and hybrid SUVs, such as the new Mitsubishi Outlander Hybrid, but expected considering the size of the car and the power it has under the hood.

Equipment and drive system
incorporating elements of the new sports Subaru Forester tS goes beyond the mechanical, but it is also seen in the interior. There we met with sports seats, steering wheel and shift knob identical to those mentioned STi versions, and aluminum pedals and more aesthetic elements. Furthermore, this model series will feature automatic climate control, power seats and thermal speed control crystals, boot button, stereo, USB and Bluetooth connectivity.

A comprehensive package of options for a Subaru Forester tS with AWD drive system to ensure good performance on rough terrain off road, thank terrain where improvements in aerodynamics. Changes that, as often happens in most of these cases, involving a reduction in the ride height of the car to gain stability control and better the overall weight.

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2011 Subaru Forester

In the years since Subaru last gave its workhorse flat four-cylinder engine a significant revision, an entire generation of customers has gone from pulling up their Huggies to donning college graduation gowns. More than two full decades have passed since the company’s engineers seriously sat down to re-examine the engine’s architecture, and in that time, there’s been an explosion of automotive technology geared toward squeezing every last bit of energy out of a drop of gasoline. With fuel economy and emissions standards growing tighter by the day, the minds at Fuji Heavy Industries, Subaru’s parent company, unveiled the third-generation of their boxer engine recently.

But at first blush, the new heir to the Pleiades throne looks to be little more than a carbon copy of its predecessor. Horsepower, torque and fuel economy figures are all within a shave of the old engine’s numbers, and while the company’s competitors are investing heavily in direct-injection systems, Subaru passed on this tech all together. Where was the improvement? Judging by the specs alone, we had to wonder why Subaru went through the trouble of building an entirely new facility just to produce what looked to be the same old beating heart we’d known and loved for years. We jumped behind the wheel of the 2011 Forester to find out just what had changed beneath the hood of its all-wheel-drive family hauler.

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New Subaru Forester exposes himself at LA Auto Show

New Subaru Forester. Subaru has two pictures and some minimal information on the brand new Forester released. The fourth generation Forester will end this month at the Los Angeles Auto Show debut and after the summer of 2013 in Europe at the dealers are driven inside.

A big surprise, the two Subaru released photos not, we have thanks to a leaked brochure because a first impression. But nevertheless we can be excited by the progress that has been made Subaru compared to its predecessor nevertheless very dated. The nose - which is clearly in agreement with the XV - smoelt good and for Subaru definitely a foundation for the future.

Boxer
What the Forester is concerned, the future is not even that far away. Homeland in Japan and in the United States, the new Subaru Forester this year are available. In Europe we have to wait until after the summer of 2013. And partly because it is still guess at details. Subaru indicates that the Forester is available with a 170 hp 2.5-liter four-cylinder boxer engine and a 2.0 liter measuring specimen with a turbo that generates 250 hp. But whether these two sources also Europe will achieve is completely unknown.
SUV

AWD is standard on all models, just as it befits a genuine Subaru. The Japanese have also know a lot to have been tampered with offroad characteristics that make the Forester it has to be stronger than ever. In order to emphasize the SUV character delivers Subaru things like a reversing camera, Harman / Kardon audio system and large color display with lots of entertainment features. Finally bear the increased dimensions therein undoubtedly a bit.

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