Bill Bryan's Subaru

The Subaru Forester like all Subaru vehicles is an all-wheel drive station wagon, now considered a crossover manufactured since 1997. Introduced to our beautiful country back in 1998, the Forester shares its platform with the Subaru Impreza, well up to the third generation anyhow. The Subaru Forester now features a hybrid platform of the Subaru Impreza Wagon and the rear platform of the Impreza sedan. Four-wheel drive (AWD) comes standard on all Subaru models.

The Subaru Forester was named to imply "of the forest". Due to the Foresters low center of gravity, it meets the United States deferral safety standards for Passenger Vehicles and does not require a rick of rollover warning label on the driver's visor. The size and price of the Subaru Forester makes it fit between the shared Impreza platform and the larger Legacy platform.

Subaru original advertising employed the slogan "SUV tough, Car Easy" to appeal to the SUV-oriented market; and to this end, the Forester from its inception had features associated with SUVs such as a large, space-efficient cargo area, higher h-point seating and more ground clearance while based on unibody rather than body-on-frame construction. In some sense, the Forester met the criteria of the term crossover before the term appeared. However, the Forester is still referred to as a station wagon. Sportshift" has been included with the four speed computer controlled automatic transmission. The in-dash, touch-screen satellite navigation system is Bluetooth compatible, and has the premium stereo integrated. Subaru also offers the six speaker premium stereo, with surround sound enhancement, separate from the navigation system.