![]() The steering is a little soggy, as if there’s an inches worth of cotton wool wrapped around your inputs, but there’s a pleasing weight to it. Soundproofing could be better – road noise borders on intrusive – but the suspension is soft, allowing the XV to absorb most bumps effectively. The XV is definitely designed to be a comfy and smooth on the road. Neither number is stellar for a hybrid most diesel or petrol PHEVs could easily better that in normal driving. Claimed WLTP figures stand at a not-particularly-special anyway (circa 36mpg) and, during our test, our numbers were hovering around the 32mpg mark. When you’re not driving like a pillock and use the hybrid system properly, you don’t exactly reap a massive fuel economy benefit either. Switching to ‘manual’ mode and using the paddles is kind of pointless here. The engine feels strained if you launch it down a motorway sliproad and allow the CVT to engage max revs but the noise to progress ratio isn’t balanced in the right way. While the battery isn’t enormous, the XV really does have the ability to run on EV power in traffic, so long as you flex nothing more than your big toe on the throttle.īut it’s still not exactly fast on paper, not that this really matters in your average family crossover, even if there’s a genuinely noticeable whump of torque at lower revs. On the plus side, nipping around town is quiet and the powertrain swaps between e-power and combustion power smoothly. So, how does this fare in the real world? ![]() Instead, it acts more like a normal Toyota Prius the battery gives the engine a helping hand when required and allows for engine-off, zero-emission driving up to 25mph. Now, as you can see, this isn’t a mild hybrid e-boost system but nor is the XV e-Boxer a plug-in hybrid. Power is sent to all four wheels via Subaru’s Lineartronic CVT, which simulates ‘gears’ by steps in the ‘box’s power delivery. Well, to start with, the XV e-Boxer uses a 148bhp 2.0-litre, naturally aspirated four-cylinder boxer engine mated to a 13.5kWh battery and a 12.3kW e-motor for a total system output of 164bhp and 192lb ft. The XV is designed to be on the more capable, actually-a-proper-SUV kind of rival here. The XV, as a reminder, is Subaru’s blocky and rugged rival to the Qashqai class – that mid-size crossover SUV that’s taken the world by storm.
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