2025 Subaru Forester Touring

Hey this is Mike. Thank you so much for choosing this video. Today we're checking out a 2025 Subaru Forester in the Touring trim level. Now I recently did a video on the limited trim of the Forester and I have the full day, night, everything about the vehicle and my overall driving impressions and all that stuff and some of the quirks that the vehicle has. This video primarily focuses on some of the upgrades that you get in the Touring trim. The Touring has a 19-inch alloy wheel, a dark gray finish. Standard on the Touring is reverse automatic braking. So if you're going in reverse and you get too close to something, based on what the parking sensors can sense, it will actually stop the vehicle if it gets too close. You can see the camera there in the very center in the front and this one is in the autumn green exterior color and you can see some gloss black accents here on the front as well as the side here. There on the side doors, gloss black accents. Yeah it's a pretty interesting color. It looks good especially on a Forester, a vehicle that's called the Forester. That green looks pretty cool. The interior is really nice. So it has this suede material right in here and then the brown right there looking nice and that suede goes all the way to the front of the door right in here. There's also kind of like a topographical map design there at the base of the door looking pretty cool. It has these little boots right here. I don't know if you can see that little boot design. There's little like little easter eggs throughout the vehicle and the seats also have the suede. So there's the suede right here and the leather and there's cloth here on the edge where it meets up with the hard plastic and then these are a heated and vented seat. They feel pretty good. They look good, feel good. If you want to keep your vehicle's interior clean, protected, and looking great, these Last Fit custom fit floor liners are a must-have. I just installed a full set in this 2025 Subaru Forester and they fit perfectly just like they were made for it. Starting with the cargo liner, this thing is built for all-weather durability. It won't crack in the cold, holds up to mud, snow, and spills, and even has a grippy texture to keep your gear from sliding around. And if you fold the seats down, the seat back liners extend the protection giving you full cargo coverage. For the back seats, Last Fit did it right. Unlike some mats that leave the center hump exposed, this one-piece design fully covers everything, making cleanup easier and protecting against whatever your passengers track in. The non-slip backing keeps it in place. No shifting, no hassle. Now up front, this is where quality really matters. The passenger and driver side liners have deep walls to trap dirt and water and the driver's mat locks into place so it never interferes with the pedals. Very important. And unlike some floor mats that have the awful plastic or rubber smell, these are completely odorless. These liners are durable, easy to clean, and they even come with a lifetime warranty. If you want to see the full installation and my in-depth review, check out the link below. Last Fit nailed it with these liners. Highly recommended. And look at that. We have all the space around the accelerator, brake pedal, even the footrest is covered up. So as we put our feet there, if there's any kind of debris or dirt or whatever, it's going to fall down and stay in here. Some of the floor mats I've seen, they don't, they leave this cut out. So that way dirt gets here and it slides underneath the mat and then just kind of like, you know, not as ideal, right? Here on the dash is like these little dimples. The back seats are heated in the Touring model, just the outer seats here. The inner portion is not. You can see the controls here. It's a two-stage heated seat. So there's a high and low mode. The major features of the Touring is the surround view 360 camera system. And so let's go ahead and put it in reverse. You can see it pops up here and the parking sensors are active. And if there's anything behind you, it'll sense it and beep at you and show you the estimated, you know, area in which it is. Also the reverse automatic braking is on. You can also turn it off here quickly if you need to get close to something or if you have a false alarm or whatever. And then you have this top down view. So there's basically a camera in the front, the back, and underneath the side, each side mirror. And it stitches those different views to make it look like there's a view directly above the vehicle. And it simulates what the vehicle looks like there in the center. And then we have the back view here next to it. And you notice it's kind of stretched out. It's expanded out. It's a wide angle view. The location of the camera isn't ideal, but we do get a decent view behind the vehicle and both ways behind the vehicle. And just gives you as much visibility as it can considering the location of the camera. You can see the tag here and you can see where it's kind of limited on where it can see. So it looks a little bit disorienting. As I turn the steering wheel, you can see it has active guidelines here and kind of show you. Also, there's a little center line there. So yeah, it's a little bit disorienting there, but it gives you some level of information behind the vehicle. When we put it in drive and we press the camera button, we get the front view and it gives us that wide view, but the camera location is better. It's in the very center and it's not obstructed so much. We see the bumper here, but we don't have too much obstructions. So we can see both ways. If we're pulling out of a parking space, we can actually see this way and that way to make sure there's no cars coming. If we're tight in the parking space with other cars and stuff like that, we can't see sometimes. So getting this view both ways as you're pulling forward is really handy in a lot of situations, but also in off-road situations too, since we can see right there where the bumper is and all the way up to the sky and literally both ways in front of the vehicle, we have a full 180 degree view in front of the vehicle. It looks a little bit distorted, but once you get used to what you're seeing here, it's very useful. And we still have the top down view here on the very front. So it's relative, got some information there on the front as well. If we're in park and we press the camera button, then it's going to give us this view right here, where it just gives us a quick snapshot of what's around the vehicle in general. And you know, this could come in handy, you know, just to kind of get your bearings or whatever. It's not as, I mean, it's okay. I wish there was a way to, you know, you can stop it here and get just like the view that you want and you can kind of like, you know, cycle through the one that you want. But I wish there was a way to transition to the normal views, even when you're in park. But all you get is this, this kind of view right here. In addition to the rear view mirror, we also have the rear view camera. We also have, it's an auto dim rear view mirror as well. When we switch to the camera side, we get a direct view behind the vehicle and the camera is located back there. So it doesn't matter if there's any, any passengers, it's actually in the rear glass. So if there's any passengers or cargo in the vehicle, it doesn't obstruct your view like a regular camera would. So yeah, this is really handy. It also has some different options here. So you have your brightness, you can adjust the up and down. If you want it lower or higher, you can go left and right a little bit. And if you want to do that, you can also tilt it. If it just doesn't look right to your eyes and then you go back to your brightness. So yeah, it does have different settings on the screen. The only thing about this particular type of deal, this, this basically a screen here is that on the Forester, as you're driving, the rear view mirror is a and unless you have, if you have like this for some people, especially if you're a little bit older, uh, your eyes at a certain distance, it's hard to focus. So if you're looking at, if you're driving and you're looking at the road, and then you're trying to transition to this little screen, you're, you're trying to refocus your eyes on that and then go back to the road, a little bit disorienting, not much. Uh, cause it's a lot closer to your eyes, you know, um, when you're having on the mirror mode, you're actually looking through the mirror and you're seeing things at a distance. So you don't have to worry so much about your eyes refocusing on something close. Same thing with the gauges, the gauges are kind of sunk into the dash. You don't really have to, um, it's not that big a deal, but this screen is kind of close for me. And you know, I have, um, transition glasses on, so it helps, but still, it's still an issue for certain people. So you, something you want to pay attention to on a test drive, you want to put it in this camera system, put it on the camera mode and then try it out and see if it works for you. It also has the upgraded Harman Kardon sound system, which sounds really good. I really enjoy driving the vehicle, cranking up the music. Uh, even at higher levels, it still sounds very sound and good, uh, on this vehicle. It's 576 watts and yeah, really impressed with it. Sound system.