This week I am behind the wheel of the 2026 Subaru Outback Wilderness, the best-selling Outback in the lineup.

Extra-outdoorsy trim levels are all the rage these days. More rugged styling bits are a must, while all-terrain tires represent the bare minimum amount of effort to increase actual capability. The ...

The 2026 Subaru Outback is here. And it's very much what you'd expect -- in both ways good and bad. Let's start with the changes. The exterior is restyled, getting a boxier and more squared-off look, ...

You don't like how the new seventh-generation Subaru Outback looks. I'm sure you find its face ungainly, its proportions odd, and its overall demeanor unsettling. But do you know who doesn't care?

(TestMiles) – Every few years a vehicle comes along that doesn’t try to reinvent your life, sell you a fantasy, or lecture you about how you should drive. It simply solves problems you already have.

One of my favorite cars from the late 1980s/90s is the Volvo 740 Turbo Wagon, a car once compared in advertising to a Lamborghini Countach hitching a trailer. For the time, it was fast, luxurious, and ...

But is it a wagon or a crossover? Why quibble? To me, Subaru’s Outback has always been an AWD wagon, but its design certainly planted the seed for many other automakers to create crossovers as wagons’ ...