2011 Subaru Forester

Subaru hasn’t made much of a commotion over its 2011 model year updates for the Forester range but we will as the compact SUV has been made more fuel efficient. An all-new four-cylinder ‘boxer’ engine for the base 2.5X models sees fuel economy rise to 21/27 mpg city/highway for both manual and automatic models. This compares to 20/27 mpg city/highway for manual-equipped 2010 models and 20/26 mpg city/highway for the automatics. The new engine still displaces 2.5-liters but it features a slightly longer stroke and a chain driven double overhead cam instead of the previous belt. It’s...