2026 Subaru Solterra: Detailed review – 0-100 & POV test drive (off-road)

27 thoughts on “2026 Subaru Solterra: Detailed review – 0-100 & POV test drive (off-road)”

1. Most solterra's have a smaller motor than the BZ (230hp vs 330) but the seats are better.

2. Possibley good first EV Brett? Great review as always mate thanks.

3. Once again New Zealand misses out on another EV

4. Why would one buy the Solterra over the bZ4X or vice versa?

5. Strange wheel arches, actually bloody awful!🦘🇦🇺👍🏼

6. I didn't like the solterra at first release, but I'm coming around to it. Think the facelift helped a bit

7. that piano black plastic on the wheel arches, is just going to look shit in 12 months time

8. Great article I was fortunate to have as a company car a series 1 and series 3 AU wagons.

9. Braking distance is a bit longer than I expected at this weight. Tyres maybe?

10. Subaru’s soccer mum car is quicker than their flagship performance car.
    Make it make sense.

    These figures are what the WRX should be minimum.

11. I don’t want to sound insensitive but are you ok with your thumbs? Wife has artrose in hers so was wondering…

12. 100 – 0km/h in 3.50 sec 43 m it's dangerous

13. That's quite impressive. A pity about the price…

14. Weren't you the guy who was warning everyone against EVs not that long ago LOL 😂😂😂 Btw Tesla's are the ones with sunroofs with no shades, but you seem to always trash the "Chinese" cars for some reason.

15. Impressive.

16. Nice review! Would like to see more soft roaders doing the hill climb. Interesting to see how capable they can be.

17. Hill climb is like the road I live on. Currently have two Outbacks and use x-mode. Keen to see the Trailseeker.

18. Hope this offroad calibration will be in all EVs made under Toyota/Subaru. Didn't think this would make it up the hill.

19. God dam, yalls. The japs have a long way to go to catch up with china EVs, yalls?

20. To be fair I usually get better than the rated range on my ICE cars, and I find the trip computers are usually fairly accurate. My observation of EVs is they are pretty much universally optimistic. Subaru/Toyota certainly aren't alone in that respect.

21. I’ll wait for the trail seeker version but this is cool

22. Braking distance!😮

23. I've said it before but I'm gonna say it again just in case: you are the best!

24. What is it with all of the traction control systems that they take ages to detect and respond to what's going on? They'll let a wheel spin up for ages before slowly deciding to redirect power elsewhere. Not just this car, all of them. I really don't like how much they damage the track.

    Also with two motors, how does one motor distribute power to two wheels? Does it use a diff? Can it lock the wheels like a mechanical diff? Or does it apply brakes to one wheel and magically power goes to the other, all at snail speed of course 🐌🐰

25. Thanks, mate. With current fuel prices and uncertainty, I think I'll eventually have to consider EVs, but unfortunately, none of them looks appealing. BTW, how long do you normally have these vehicles before doing the actual review?

26. Better off-road than the BYD Shark. 😂

27. 0-100 in under 5 secs. Nice.

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