Simply if you thought 2025 could not get crazier, say hi there to the fastest-accelerating manufacturing Subaru ever. “Reward be, they introduced again the WRX STI,” you is perhaps pondering. However there are not any STI badges—or WRX badges, even. It is the Subaru Trailseeker, an electrical crossover SUV with a watch towards off-roading. It is not presupposed to be a pavement scorcher.

Subaru pulled the covers off its new SUV on the 2025 New York Auto Present, wanting like an even bigger Solterra with some new Outback ruggedness tossed in for good measure. You possibly can learn all about it in our Trailseeker debut put up. However one factor that went largely underneath the radar was its efficiency. Subaru claims the Trailseeker can go from zero to 60 miles per hour in 4.3 seconds. That is sufficient to outrun the final WRX STI off the meeting line, It is also forward of the limited-production STI S209. This SUV is fast.

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In protection of inner combustion, it must be a really shut race between the Trailseeker and S209. To refresh your reminiscence, it popped up in 2019 with 341 horsepower and 330 pound-feet of torque from its turbocharged 2.5-liter four-pot. By comparability, the Trailseeker has “roughly” 375 mixed hp from its twin electrical motors, one at every axle.

We assume the Trailseeker is significantly heavier than the outdated S209. At the moment, Subaru is not particular on particulars, however being a sizeable SUV with a 74.7-kilowatt-hour battery, it is not a light-weight. However it must be infinitely simpler for the Trailseeker to place its energy to the bottom.

Usually talking, the S209 reaches 60 mph within the mid-four-second vary, however that requires a death-defying clutch drop to interact its six-speed guide transmission. The Trailseeker is principally point-and-shoot, which is not practically as a lot enjoyable as flipping gears. However it’s the fast, constant strategy to pin folks within the seat.

Curiously, Subaru hasn’t been speaking a lot concerning the Trailseeker’s efficiency. With quite a few automobile stats and a last horsepower determine nonetheless TBD, it is attainable the corporate may “gradual” it down a contact earlier than manufacturing begins.

Proper now, manufacturing is anticipated to happen in early 2026.