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My wife's got a 2018 Outback with the 3.6L H6 and a CVT. The transmission is fine except that you can't check or top off the fluid. It was sold when new as "lifetime" but Subaru has since changed their mind. I think her car has about 130k miles. We bought it with ~30k miles. We have towed a small u-Haul trailer half a dozen times.

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Originally Posted by astrochex View Post
Wife has a Crosstrek. In normal mode it is anti-fun. God forbid the engine rev past 3K rpm.
Weird. Ours is similar to pretty much any/every auto car that I've ever driven. The rpms depend upon your right foot. The car will lope along at 1200rpm if you're steady state at a low enough speed. If I'm accelerating, it's usually in the 3k-4k range. If I'm trying to get on the freeway into a specific gap it'll run right up to 6k.
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