25 Years Later, Is It Worth Buying? 1999 Subaru Forester SF5 Review

[@ChrisN06999]

My dream shitbox.
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[@robsonmukungurutse3673]

If you baby it while driving it will never know what it is really capable of. Get the revs over 3000rpm and its a different car all together. The automatic transmission is a bit lazy to downshift so you really have to be on the throttle for it to kickdown. It reasonably fast if you know how to drive it

[@jacobwanyonyi8671]

Do a review of the SG5 Turbo

[@dailymotoring]

I will as soon as I get access to one

[@douglasgakere9661]

All jdm version 4 came with 250hp stock from the factory..
The 177hp figure was for european and other markets.

[@dailymotoring]

This definitely doesn’t feel anywhere close to 250hp

[@douglasgakere9661]

Again unless its swapped, that interior is from the series A (version 4) which was model year 97/98.. 99/00 had a diffrent interior design

[@robsonmukungurutse3673]

The turbo charged ones make upto 250 horsepower in stock form(Japanese import).

[@dailymotoring]

Maybe the ones with the EJ25 engine

[@DeejaySirT]

I own a manual one 2 litre stock. Thirsty but a beast. Am working on lowering the car na genome exhaust

[@dailymotoring]

Nice! This one in the review has some missing bits so fuel consumption is crazily high

[@mwendakanyuru1051]

Got my sf5 2days ago... need to work on it seriously

[@dailymotoring]

Congratulations on the purchase! Work on the car because when it’s in a healthy condition it’s a really good car

[@mwendakanyuru1051]

​@@dailymotoring need to fix my auto gear box its has some unpleasant sound and also the power light goes on and wount change gears till after 3000 revs. Ultimate objective is to have a 5speed manual. I'll say its thirsty too no complaints though.

[@dailymotoring]

This SF's gearbox was also changed shortly after purchase. It was jerky when engine breaking especially downhill. With the new gearbox gladly things are okay

[@kamarlyngamba6332]

Owned one for two yrs... Nothing much to complain bt it's a thirsty one

[@dailymotoring]

For most cars of that era you had to make a sacrifice. Get performance, sacrifice good fuel economy

[@denniskimani2824]

forester vs mark x

[@dailymotoring]

If I get access to the first gen Mark X I'll definitely do a review