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SUBARU OUTBACK TOURING

Price as tested $47,790 (+ORC)

This month 431km @ 10.1L/100km

Overall 892km @ 10.1L/100km

SEE THIS HERE [slaps bonnet], that’s $50K worth of Japanese ingenuity,” I say as I try to convince my family to bat a collective eyelid at my loan chariot. My wife, unimpressed the Outback didn’t park itself, says, “Is this what you’d buy if I gave you $50K to spend?” I pause to contemplate the question. Does the Subaru really tickle my fancy, or should I try to ram my kids in the back of a Toyota GR86?

I won’t bore you by listing the three spec levels the Outback comes in, or the fact that under the identity-confused ‘Wag-UV’, is the same platform used by the XV, Forester and Impreza. But what I will tell you is that being a father of three kids does require a certain type of car, and the Outback does fit a round peg into the round hole.