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Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:49 pm
by Mr Kleen
Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Before your heart goes all aflutter at the thought of a factory Subaru Forester XTI, cool your jets a bit. It's true that Subaru Australia has just pulled the sheets off of a more powerful Forester complete with nearly 260 horsepower and 256 pound-feet of torque, and yes, the high-rider packs a new five-speed automatic to replace the archaic four-speed slusher found on most Forester models. Drivers can even control shifts via a pair of paddles should the mood strike them. But this isn't some slammed hardcore grocery getter. Instead, the Forester S-Edition, as it's called, wears a slightly revised suspension cooked up from the minds at STI along with a few subtle aero tweaks outside.
Jump indoors and those from down under will enjoy a cabin trimmed in Alcantara bits, navigation and a rear view camera, all for a just a bit more than what you'd typically pay for a Forester XT in those parts.
Will we be getting anything similar? It certainly wouldn't hurt our feelings, but we'd be surprised if Subaru suddenly decided to lay another model on top of its range-capping XT here in the land of the free. We've got our digits crossed for that five-speed transmission, though. Hit the jump for the press release.
where's the manual? where's the US release?
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:39 pm
by complacent
at this point, i'd be happy with
any five-speed in the new forester.
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 7:09 am
by drwrx
complacent wrote:at this point, i'd be happy with any five-speed in the new forester.
Again, if they can make an auto on the level of the Evo, M3 or GTR I would be sold. Those slushboxes are sublime!
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:03 am
by missvenezuela85
oooo ahhhhhh
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:00 am
by scheherazade
drwrx wrote:complacent wrote:at this point, i'd be happy with any five-speed in the new forester.
Again, if they can make an auto on the level of the
Evo, M3 or GTR I would be sold.
Those slushboxes are sublime!
Slush without the slush
-scheherazade
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:16 am
by Mr Kleen
I wouldn't call the GTR or Evo's dual-clutch-automated-manual a slush box. But that's just me.
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:46 am
by drwrx
Mr Kleen wrote:I wouldn't call the GTR or Evo's dual-clutch-automated-manual a slush box. But that's just me.
Tamato / Patato
wait . . . is that how that goes?
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:22 pm
by scheherazade
In my mind, a TQ converter = slush.
Take a planetary transmission, replace the TQ converter with a clutch, and I'll not consider it a slushbox.
Which is apparently what some companies have done when making their auto-manuals:
The automated transmission may be derived from a conventional automatic; for instance Mercedes-Benz's AMG SPEEDSHIFT MCT automated transmission is based on the 7G-Tronic manumatic, however the latter's torque converter has been replaced with a wet, multi-plate launch clutch.[1][2]. Other automateds have their roots in a conventional manual; the SMG II drivelogic (found in the BMW M3 (E46) is a Getrag 6-speed manual transmission, but with an electrohydraulically actuated clutch pedal, similar to an Formula One style transmission.[3][3][4][5][3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-autom ... ansmission
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7G-Tronic
-scheherazade
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:51 pm
by Sabre
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Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:19 pm
by complacent
i like that little mirror! it's great for parallel parking!
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:31 pm
by Mr Kleen
complacent wrote:i like that little mirror! it's great for parallel parking!
in
some countries.
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:34 pm
by complacent
Mr Kleen wrote:
in
some countries.
the phrase "duh" comes to mind.
i didn't say i wanted one. for here.
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:34 pm
by Sabre
Exactly, it's on the "wrong side"!
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:19 pm
by Mr Kleen
Sabre wrote:Exactly, it's on the "wrong side"!
you missed the "for Australia" part?
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:08 am
by chicken n waffles
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:40 am
by Sabre
Mr Kleen wrote:Sabre wrote:Exactly, it's on the "wrong side"!
you missed the "for Australia" part?
Naa, I just meant it's on the wrong side for us
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:30 am
by sirwilliam
chicken n waffles wrote:
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:26 pm
by Mr Kleen
I stopped by the Subaru booth at the DC Auto Show and chatted up the ladies. I asked them to relay a message to SOA: we want a manual transmission turbo Forrester and we want it NOW. She actually had a book of customer comments and she dutifully wrote it all down. She said that the Forrester was supposed to get the CVT for 2013 but the time-line has been moved up and it might happen by the end of 2011 for the 2012s.
the CVT is nice for gas mileage but I want 3 pedals and a turbo!
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:27 pm
by schvin
ooooOOOooooo
did suby have anything cool at the auto show?
Re: Subaru adds WRX-powered Forester S-Edition for Australia
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:36 pm
by Mr Kleen
Nothing you can't see any any North American Subaru show room.
