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Five Things you need to know about the fresh two thousand eighteen Subaru XV, Practical Motoring

Five Things you need to know about the fresh two thousand eighteen Subaru XV

More room to stir

The fresh XV measures 4645mm long (up from 4450mm), 1800mm broad (up from 1780mm) and the same 2019mm mirror-to-mirror, and runs a longer wheelbase of two thousand six hundred seventy (up from 2635mm) and is longer than a Golf Alltrack, it maintains the current car’s 1615mm height (with roof rails). So, when it comes to describing the interior, roomy is a good word to use. And, like the fresh Impreza there’s been a noticeable step-up in quality.

The design mirrors that of the Impreza, albeit the XV gets bright orange contrast stitching for the dashboard, steering wheel, gear shifter boot, and seats. Bootspace is three hundred fifty litres (five more than fresh Impreza) which is an increase on the original XV of three hundred ten litres. It’s still not a ample boot, but the form makes it usable (it’s 100mm broader than the old car) with Subaru suggesting it’ll guzzle three golf bags neatly.

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Isaac, can you release the handbrake by hand without limitation from the electronics?

Yes, you can. It’s just that if you don’t and attempt and drive off without your seatbelt on it will stop you.

Isaac, You do superb work, but unluckily some of the dimensions for the existing and the updated XV are not fairly right. Not sure where “…current car’s 1550mm height…” has come from. 🙁

From the Subura Aust site, for the current XV;

length Four,450mm, width 1,780mm, height 1,615mm, wheel base Two,635mm.

From Subaru’s press release for the updated XV;

length Four,465mm, width 1,800mm, height 1,615mm, wheel base Two,665 mm.

Subaru Aust’ will be hoping that sales of the XV will improve greatly with the update.

In regards to space efficiently the fresh Skoda Karoq does enormously well. Albeit it’s length of Four,382 mm is shorter than the XV, it’s luggage capacity is five hundred twenty one litres.

Isaac is suffering lysdexia, and exchanged a few digits it seems in the length.

The update looks insipid and Subaru are kidding themselves it’ll make much difference. Poor engine choices or should I say lack of choices. The only positive, it’s looks reasonably good.

Sure, it’s been a softly-softly update and the Skoda Karoq will throw a cat amongst the pigeons in this segment, but the XV is clearly the most rugged of all the compact SUVs. Yes, it could very likely do with a diesel engine but there’s not one available here and the engine it’s got isn’t that bad. Talk to people who’ve bought the fresh Impreza and they’ll tell you they don’t know what all the fuss is about. Cheers Isaac.

PS. I addressed the numbers issue in another comment reply.

Thanks McF1, yes, it looks like I was out by a few mm here and there… Reason being, I took my numbers from a display panel at the Japanese presentation and so things like height for our car are different than theres because we get fatter/taller tyres for more ground clearance. In Japan the XV offers 200mm and here it offers 220mm. I’m not sure where you found the wheelbase measurement of 2665mm, because the one that I got in Japan and all of my colleagues are running with too (I’ve done a quick check on the other outlets this morning) is 2670mm. I’ll be attending the local launch next month and will double-check them then. Subaru hasn’t released, as far as I’m aware, updated specs for the fresh car… if you’ve seen them, can you share the link with me. Thanks Isaac.

Hi Issac, thanks for the reply.

In the article Four,645mm is shown for the length for the updated XV, rather than Four,465mm.

The measurements that I have used for the updated XV are those from Subaru’s press release PDF for Geneva (it will be interesting to see the measurements from the local launch next month);

www dot subaru-global dot com/news/ March 7, 2017.

The following is from the PDF;

(Overall length / width / height)

Four,465 x 1,800 x 1,615*6

Wheelbase Two,665 mm

Minimum ground clearance two hundred twenty mm

Engine FB20 type Two.0-liter, DOHC, Horizontally-Opposed, 4-cylinder,

Direct injection, NA

Bore, Stroke eighty four x 90mm

Maximum output 115kW (156ps)

Maximum torque 196Nm (20.0kgfm)

Drive train Symmetrical AWD

Tire size 225/55 R18

Seating capacity Five

*6: Without roof rail: 1,595 mm

Isaac Bober

Isaac Bober was born in the shadow of Climb on Panorama in Bathurst and, so, it was unavoidable he’d fall into work as a motoring writer. He began his motoring career in two thousand reviewing commercial vehicles, before becoming editor of Caravan & Motorhome magazine. He then moved to MOTOR Magazine before going freelance and contributing to Overlander 4WD, 4×4 Australia, TopGear Australia, Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, The Australian, CARSguide, and many more.

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