2017 Subaru Outback Gen-5 Long-Term Driver Report Oct 2020
The 2017 Outback: A Driver's Perspective The author's 2017 Outback exploring backroads By and large, when you search the internet for a 2017 Subaru Outback, you will get numerous results on how off-road capable the Subaru is or how it compares to other vehicles in its class. Scattered amongst the videos and photos of Outbacks scrambling up mountainsides, through mud, and plowing through snow, there is very little on articles or blogs about how the Subaru does as a daily driver. About the only exception to this rule is joining a Subaru Outback or related internet forum. It has been a little over one year and 22,000 miles since I drove my pre-owned 2017 Subaru Outback off the lot. A majority of those miles involved highway driving during my 60-mile round trip commute to downtown Austin and back. This commute meant driving through numerous construction zones and crawling down the road at a snail’s pace. It also meant dealing with less than stellar drivers and construction vehicles