25 Years Later, Is It Worth Buying? 1999 Subaru Forester SF5 Review

A quick look at the first Forester to be produced, with a little buyer’s guide, and what I like and don’t like about the SF5 Forester
Music credits: ‪@Infraction‬
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:39 - Car Montage
0:56 - History of Foresters
2:15 - Exterior Look of the SF5
3:35 - Interior Look of the SF5
4:33 - Engine Start Up
4:37 - Driving Experience
8:35 - What I Don’t Like
8:59 - What I Like
9:55 - Buyers Advice/ What Goes Wrong
11:19 - My Opinion/Verdict
12:10 - Outro
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[@ChrisN06999]

My dream shitbox.
💯

[@robsonmukungurutse3673]

If you baby it while driving it will never know what it is really capable of. Get the revs over 3000rpm and its a different car all together. The automatic transmission is a bit lazy to downshift so you really have to be on the throttle for it to kickdown. It reasonably fast if you know how to drive it

[@douglasgakere9661]

Again unless its swapped, that interior is from the series A (version 4) which was model year 97/98.. 99/00 had a diffrent interior design

[@douglasgakere9661]

All jdm version 4 came with 250hp stock from the factory..
The 177hp figure was for european and other markets.

[@dailymotoring]

This definitely doesn’t feel anywhere close to 250hp

[@robsonmukungurutse3673]

The turbo charged ones make upto 250 horsepower in stock form(Japanese import).

[@dailymotoring]

Maybe the ones with the EJ25 engine

[@DeejaySirT]

I own a manual one 2 litre stock. Thirsty but a beast. Am working on lowering the car na genome exhaust

[@dailymotoring]

Nice! This one in the review has some missing bits so fuel consumption is crazily high

[@mwendakanyuru1051]

Got my sf5 2days ago... need to work on it seriously

[@dailymotoring]

Congratulations on the purchase! Work on the car because when it’s in a healthy condition it’s a really good car

[@mwendakanyuru1051]

​@@dailymotoring need to fix my auto gear box its has some unpleasant sound and also the power light goes on and wount change gears till after 3000 revs. Ultimate objective is to have a 5speed manual. I'll say its thirsty too no complaints though.

[@denniskimani2824]

forester vs mark x

[@kamarlyngamba6332]

Owned one for two yrs... Nothing much to complain bt it's a thirsty one

[@dailymotoring]

For most cars of that era you had to make a sacrifice. Get performance, sacrifice good fuel economy