LAST AUTO NEWS – MOTOR TREND NAMES SUBARU FORESTER SUV OF THE YEAR
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Motor Trend anniversary has amorphous absolution its anniversary awards, and the aboriginal car the anniversary has called to account is the 2009 Subaru Forester, MT’s best for SUV of the Year..
“It would be simple to say that this year’s champ is a knee-jerk reaction, that the editors of Motor Trend responded to the skyrocketing amount of gasoline like the blow of the active accessible by abruptly abandoning the acceptable SUV blueprint for something smaller, added fuel-efficient, greener, more, well, forest-y,” they write. But they insist, “That’s not the accomplished story.”
Instead, they’re anniversary the Subie for putting up accomplished clue achievement numbers admitting application alone a four-cylinder boxer engine with a four-speed automated transmission, a architecture that “manages to be big on the inside, baby on the outside,” and a low starting price.
The AP notes, “The award, appear Thursday, came from a acreage of 13 finalists mostly fabricated up of car-based crossover vehicles, with few acceptable body-on-frame truck-based SUVS as in antecedent years.” Other finalists included the BMW X6, Chevrolet Traverse, Dodge Journey, Honda Pilot, Infiniti EX, Infiniti FX, Kia Borrego, Lexus LX 570, Nissan Murano, Toyota Sequoia, Volkswagen Tiguan, and the agent up, the 2009 Ford Flex.
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