2024 Subaru Crosstrek Premium (2.0) vs. Sport (2.5) | POV Driving Impressions Review and 0-60.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2024
- Welcome back guys! Here’s a quick POV driving focused review of the 2.0 and 2.5 Crosstrek to express my impressions of them back to back on the road. What are your thoughts?
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My wife got the 2024 premium with sunroof for under 28000 great car!
That’s awesome! 😎
Crazy I got the premium with no sunroof for 30k
I've had both motors and wish I still had my 19 Crosstrek with the 2.0. way better fuel economy. No matter how I drove it I was getting 32 mpg in long math at the pump. The car is usually 3mpg off.
Thanks for sharing your experience! When I had my 2.0 the computer read about 5% too generous. My Outback is much more on track with hand calculated MPG at the pump. 🤷♂️🙂
Small world I’m in the PT world too! PTA here in FL and I do traveling PT a couple days a week. I keep debating on the Sport or a Mazda 3. My Boxer dog seems to be the determining factor
Very small world, that’s awesome! Definitely test drive both. But I don’t think you can go wrong either way. 🙂
I had a 2019 6 speed, and traded it in for a wrx. I miss a lot of things about the trek(space, rear hatch, clearance, and ride comfort), but I'll never go back to a 2.0 engine. It struggled with people in the car, and I had to downshift constantly on the highway. I hope subaru one day makes a crosstrek with a 2.4 turbo, and a 6 speed plus a crawler gear. Until then, I'll lift my wrx and see what I can do with it.
👍 💯 🇺🇸
I hear you! Lifted WRXs look sweet! I’ve only driven lowered ones thus far.
Wanted the sport but got the 24 premium with no heated seats😭 because we needed a car quicker after my wife totaled out her camaro this. Past July. Power for me is good, ride is excellent, Japan vs Indiana production, hate the seatbelt alarm.
I hear you, just glad she’s okay! Yeah, the seat belt alarms are rough, lol.
If you have a Buick dealer nearby, I'd like to hear your opinion of the Envista and its 1.2T engine at altitude.
There’s surprisingly not a very large or reputable Buick dealers in the few towns most local to me. But if I get the opportunity to drive one I’d enjoy that. If it’s a 1.2T I’d assume it’s similar to the Trax/Trailblazer platform, maybe even the same? But I haven’t researched that. In any case I do have a few videos of those Chevys mentioned, and it’s a decent little engine, but I could imagine it quickly gets overwhelmed or poor mpg if the vehicle is full capacity or having to climb in elevation. Best of luck! 🙂
@@AutomotiveAnonymous208 Yeah. Same engine as new Trax. I'll search for your Trax video. Thanks!
Since the 2024 Premium only offers a CVT, I'd probably get the 2024 Sport, but I don't think you could go wrong with either one. I really enjoy the 2.0 liter engine in my 2023 6MT.
I agree, I think they’re each pretty good, especially at their price point. I’m glad you were able to ship the manual! Had I not wanted eyesight on my 2019 I also would have found a manual. But after selling my most recent manual Tacoma the automatic Subaru was a refreshing change of pace lol.
@@AutomotiveAnonymous208 Not having to shift has its plusses. One annoying thing for me with the manual is that I’ll put it in neutral at a red light. When the light turns green I try to rush to get it into first so the car behind me doesn’t get teed off lol. I could leave it in first with the clutch in, but I read somewhere that that causes unnecessary wear on the clutch.
I enjoy your reviews and I am wondering what your thoughts are on the comfort level of the seats in the crosstrek base,premium and sport.Does it change much as you go up in trim levels?
I think seat comfort is very subjective and differs with each of our body style and preferences. With that said, I think all the Crosstrek seats are comfortable. And having driven 40k miles on my old premium I never had any issue. 🙂
Great impression video. Just curious, you often get testers from Twin Falls Subaru, but how long are you able to try them out? (e.g. only a few hours, a whole day or week?). I'm wondering if you've been able to measure the real world mpg (not relying on the onboard readout), though that's probably too much of an endurance effort.
Also, have you been able to try out a Corolla Cross (either hybrid or regular)?
I haven’t found a good example of a Corolla Cross yet to make a video with, in fact I hardly ever see them. But that’s one that I have in my radar!
I usually only borrow a car the minimum length needed to make my video. I have had thoughts about trying to borrow for longer to do more MPG testing like I’ve done on my personal Outback. But I haven’t asked about that yet, and due to the fact that most of their vehicles for example are all dealer owned that they of course want in good condition to sell I’m unsure how they’d feel about that. I’m hopefully as my channel gets bigger in the years to come I could eventually borrow “press cars” for more extensive testing, but I’m sure that’s a ways down the road, lol.
2.0L here in Canada. Live in a city and area with a lot of elevation changes. Coming from a 02 Corolla. I know the 2.0L gets harped on but its sufficient enough for me.
That’s all that matters! 🙂
I just ordered a 2024 Crosstrek Premium and seeing all the harping on the 2.0L engine was making me reconsider... Only test drove an Onyx which seemed pretty zippy compared to my '21 Forester. I see so many people complain it's not got enough power to pass people on the 401 ... I'm thinking a 2.0L can't be THAT bad... I mean I'm not buying it for speed tbh.
@@laalbujhakkar it’s not bad. I can still pass people easily lol
And adding a lighter weight wheel/tire helps a lot! The 2023 slightly lifted Crosstrek with a better wheel/tire I posted a few weeks ago actually GPS’d almost a second faster than any other 2.5 I’ve tested. 🤔😬
Can't lie, if there's a better engine option; I'm always going for that one.
I feel the same way. 😎
It's insane to me that no Crosstrek - no matter how pricey - can be bought in the U.S. with driver seat memory. Our 22 Legacy Limited XT has that feature, as does our 2016 Ford Fusion SE AWD and we've learned that we would never do without it.
Yeah, good catch! That is an interesting choice by Subaru to not offer it. Thanks for watching!
It's a head scratcher, for sure@@AutomotiveAnonymous208
The sport is worth the extra money
Is that an app that you use to run your 0-60 times and info grid? If so would you mind sharing which app? Thanks!
Yeah! The app is Dragy, but to use it you need to purchase the small GPS box, which is about $160 U.S.
I’ve had mine for several years and have used it probably over 400x. It works 98-99% of the time and very quickly paid for itself in how awesome access to the information is. 🙂
@@AutomotiveAnonymous208 ok awesome! Thank you for the info. Definitely going to check it out!
Why does the Wilderness have such an increase in towing capacity? Oil cooler maybe?
Yeah, I think that’s the reason! 🙂
In Canada, the 2.5 comes from Japan.
Oh that’s cool! Thanks for sharing that insight.
Wait, is the 2.0L premium sold in Canada made in the US?
I haven’t looked into the Canadian models, but here in the U.S. the 2.5 models are assembled in Japan, while the 2.0 are assembled in the U.S. so it may be the same for you up north? 🧐
@@AutomotiveAnonymous208 Currently all Canadian Crosstreks come from Japan.
Sadly the 2.5 is American 🇺🇸
And the 2.0 is made in Japan 🇯🇵
So I prefer to stick with the Japanese even if I loose horse 🐎 power
I hear you. I didn’t have a single issue with my 2.0 Crosstrek, other than passing semi’s and farm equipment on the highway, lol. 😂
The parts are still made in Japan, just assembled in the U.S.
Why don’t reviewers ever test vehicles at sea level?
I’m not entirely sure what everyone else does as I haven’t watched many other car reviews since I started doing this myself. But as a small channel starting out and doing this in my free time as a part time gig I wouldn’t realistically be able to justify the time/expense of all that further distance traveling to places like sea level. Despite that being really cool. I think many of the big car magazines are located closer to sea level and in California. So they would be better at providing the best possible acceleration times in a set environment for each vehicle. And therefor I provide what it does in my reality which is 2,500-7,500’ of altitude equivalent due to fluctuating density altitude. 🤷♂️😅 Thanks for watching!