Good day, Scotty,
I have a family who owns Subarus and they like to take their Subarus off-roading. One of my family members has a 2021 Crosstrek and the other has a 2021 Forester. I just purchased a 2009 Subaru Tribeca with a Flat H6 engine with symmetrical AWD. I am being told by some people that I can, but other people say I shouldn't.
Yes you can do anything you want to with it. As with any off-roading something will break eventually just repair it and ride on.
Depends what you mean. Sure, you can take a tribeca “off road” in the sense that I take my WRX up some easy forest service roads to get to trailheads. But although the tribeca has AWD, the approach and break over angles are going to severely limit what you can do. You could rank it like this:
1. Modified wrangler
2. Stock wrangler, 4Runner
3. “Off road” package pickup: TRD pro, Ram Rebel
4. Regular 4wd pickup, Grand Cherokee
5. AWD off roaders: crosstrek, forester, rav4, passport
6. AWD on roaders: tribeca/ascent, highlander, pilot
7. 2wd sedans: accord, Camry
i have seen some accords make it up some hairy trails, if the driver knows what he’s doing. You can do 90% of what you can do in a crosstrek in a tribeca, you just have to recognize when you get to the other 10%.
by offroading, do you mean take that dirt road to my cabin, or do you mean screw around in the mud and rocks until something breaks?
