With greater ground clearance and all-terrain tires, the Wilderness edition of Subaru's subcompact crossover deftly tackles dirt roads and rocky hills.
Mountain goats look unbalanced—they have goofy faces accented by a tuft of chin hair, and their heads look far too small for their bodies. Yet these large, oddly proportioned beasts possess extreme rock-climbing capability, able to navigate sheer cliff faces and perch on the narrowest of ledges., the Crosstrek's tall-boy hatchback stance and smallish size don't suggest all-terrain competence, even with its acres of plastic body cladding.
The Wilderness uses the 2.5-liter flat-four that's optional on the standard Crosstrek, and with 182 horsepower and 178 pound-feet of torque, it isn't particularly quick. Acceleration is adequate around town, but short on-ramps can become nerve-racking. A Crosstrek Limited, which uses the same engine,in our testing. The Wilderness should fare about the same, though it does get a shorter final-drive ratio—4.11:1 versus 3.
Like all Crosstreks, the Wilderness gets a version of Subaru's X-Mode, which reprograms the transmission, throttle, and torque distribution for varying terrain. On much of our journey we used the Deep Snow/Mud mode, which deftly allocated torque to the wheels with the most traction. Engaging X-Mode also activates hill-descent control when under 12 mph.
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