The Subaru Ascent is the Subaru that answered a simple question — how much car can this badge carry? — with 260 hp from 2.4 . It was built from 2018, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market.
How it came about
The Subaru Ascent is a mid-size crossover SUV produced by Subaru. In some markets, it is sold as the Subaru Evoltis. It is the largest automobile Subaru manufactures. The seven or eight-seat passenger SUV, with the design based on the VIZIV-7 concept, made its debut at the LA Auto Show on November 28, 2017, and became available in the third quarter of 2018. It has an American-built predecessor, the Tribeca. The Ascent is not available in Japan.
The hardware
The engine is 2.4 the output is 260 hp. On the scales it comes to 4430 –. Drive goes through a TR690 Lineartronic CVT. The layout matters: drive goes to all four wheels, which is what lets the power be used on a wet road. The wheelbase is 113.8 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Subaru line-up the Subaru Ascent has a clear place: it replaced the Subaru Tribeca; the factory was Lafayette, Indiana (SIA), United States. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Porsche Taycan, the Ferrari 488, the Great Wall Motor Great Wall Wingle 7. Its Subaru stablemates include the Subaru Chiffon and the Subaru Lucra.
Owning one today
Buying one now means $21,500–$52,000 for a typical example, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $3,373–$6,153 a year. Insurance sits around $1,450–$2,490 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.
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