Please, Subaru and all other manufacturers, do not roll out technology before it is ready. But I need to mention the system response feels generally sluggish, a problem I have not experienced with the system in my 2019 Outback. Overall, the system menus are intuitive and graphics are fine. The same multiple menu drudgery occurs when trying to turn off the Outback’s auto stop/start feature.ĭear automotive manufacturers, please jot this down…more complicated and better are not synonymous. Touching that icon finally turns on the seat heater, after removing the driver’s eyes from the road for quite some time. Touch the seat heater icon on the 2020 touchscreen and a “Climate” window appears, including an HVAC temperature selector, a lovely image of a seat, and another seat heater icon. Pushing the seat heater button in the 2019 turns on the seat heater. That change could have been an acceptable techie update, if it hadn’t included some brand-new inefficiencies.įor example…the space occupied by a seat heater pushbutton in the 2019 has now become a seat heater icon on the lowest portion of the 2020’s touchscreen. Impressive, I thought, until I realized the fattened touchscreen had annexed real estate formerly occupied by simple buttons and knobs. My first clue was the touchscreen of near-Teslan proportions. While the sheet metal initially fooled me into believing this 2020 edition was the same as the 2019 Outback I’d been driving for the past 2 years, I knew better long before I pulled it into my driveway. If sales are falling away, give it a completely new look.īut if it’s a booming success-can you say Outback-then keep it familiar and just touch up the grey. Why invest millions in new tooling to crank out a new car that looks just like the old one?Īpart from the Etch-A-Sketch, every product needs to be updated from time to time or consumers will feel it’s gone stale. Some differences are noted.Īrriving at home, I park Outback aside Outback and hop out to compare.Ĭloser inspection reveals perhaps not a single bit of sheet metal carried over from old to new. The shape of the taillights, the vertical slit running lights where I expect round driving lights. The color is distinctly different from my own Wilderness Green 2019 Outback, but the shape strikes me as identical.ĭoing a quick walk-around, my eyes narrow a bit at the details. As I approach the Abyss Blue Pearl 2020 Subaru Outback that I am about to spend the weekend with, my first thought is how familiar it looks.
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