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Peter Anderson

Contributing journalist

10 min read

Peter Anderson road tests and reviews the 2016 Subaru Forester tS with specs, fuel consumption and verdict.

For a mass-market manufacturer, Subaru's cult following is no less than a wonder of the modern industrial world. Subaru owners are as enthusiastic as Caterham owners, or Fender collectors. What's even more amazing is that, with such a hardcore base, Subaru has created a cult-within-a-cult with its little oval pink STi badge, harking back to muddy Rally GB stages in wintry Wales, and Colin McRae up on two wheels, or upended entirely.

There have, of course been faster Foresters in the past - dropped, toughened and raucous, the backwards baseball cap brigade love them almost as much as the WRX STi. Times have changed for the Forester, though - it's big and tall and you could hold a church service in the back. So instead of a full-fat STi, Subaru came up with a halfway house - the tS (no, that's not a typo, but they should perhaps have considered that it looks like one).

Read the full Subaru Forester tS 2016 review.