2024 Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness Extreme Off-Road Trail Test 

Subaru please sponsor this guy. He does more work for your products than any other youtuber.

Building your own course is very impressive. Glad to see that the Crosstrek made it through mostly unscathed!

At this point you should start making excavator reviews, great work as always.

As an avid camper/backpacker/hiker/mountain biker/kayaker who does so with an awd cadillac ats, I can confidently say that the standard crosstrek would be all the offroad capability I would ever need to enjoy my hobbies. As it stands, the ats has never failed to get me to where I need to go, but there have been times where the gravel roads would get very bad and I'd have to pick my line very carefully to make it through. I'd be that guy who gets to the trailhead and turns heads because every other vehicle there is a truck or "off roader" suv, then I roll up in my caddy lol. The reason I don't bother getting something more capable is because even though I get out for an adventure every single month, 95% of my time is still spent on road. Fuel efficieny, comfort, and on road performance still far outweigh my need to sacrifice those things for really nothing more than peace of mind when the road occasionaly gets rough. And for reference, I live in michigan and still go winter camping in the up and to the remote areas of our beautiful state, so dont assume that the only reason my awd sedan can do those things is because i live somewhere like florida lol. Tldr; the standard crosstrek is all the capability most people would ever need, even if they live an active outdoors lifestyle.

My dealer gave me a Crosstrek Wilderness while my wife’s Ascent is getting serviced. I was truly surprised how comfortable, quiet, and solid this car is.

For a split second, when that excavator started beeping, I thought Ryan was cussing and it was being bleeped.

I just wanted to show my appreciation to you and your outstanding work. You are favorite car review channel. Keep up an outstanding job!

Oh man, this videos are so helpful, and the fact that you are actually building the trails yourself is an amazing experience for you for sure. 👍🏻

I just bought a 2024 Crosstrek Wilderness in geyser blue with all options and LOVE IT! Thank you so much for all your detailed and great quality videos, you defiantly made my buying purchase super enjoyable! Keep the wilderness videos coming!

Thanks for uploading another great video! The best part about the channel is that you use a wide variety of makes and models and you have helped me appreciate new vehicles

Your videos have had the effect Subaru was hoping for... Soon there will be another one in the PNW.... Last month I ordered the same green CTW and waiting for it to come in next month. So I was excited to see this video when it popped up this morning. Good job on all your videos and getting this nice testing ground set up.

What a great review! I'm truly impressed about the high level and quality of the overall production in this, including that course building, camera work and the amazing review itself. So complete and interesting to watch, loved it. Everything is just so well put together, Thank you so much for bringing this!

The Crosstrek did surprisingly well. Thank you for the review!

This trail is a great idea to weed out the pretenders vs the contenders.

So capable 👌🏼thanks for sharing your content with us!

Ryan, Thanks for pushing the Crosstrek Wilderness through this trail. Since the first time I saw the preproduction car, I wanted to figure out how to reduce the lower lip. You have just proven to me that in needs to be removed for better clearance. It's a little shovel, of course it's there for getting air into the CVT cooler so ... trade offs. Anyway, Thanks for a great video and improving the proving grounds!

You and the throttle house guys probably have the best jobs out there! Thanks for putting so much into your content. It’s truly a passion and it shows.

Ryan you’re the best ! Thank you for this review.❤

You never disappoint with your content. Keep it up!

It looks like the biggest challenge for it was the loose dirt, which would challenge most non-hardcore vehicles. It would be interesting to see it redo this course in a year when the trail is hard packed. It will still have the angles and dips, but the loose soil should harden up.

Seen the crosstrek in action….this is a great little suv! Easy in the city and off roading. Not going to climb rocks but pretty capable in what you need it to do. Well done Subaru….good test

I would love to see another run of the Outback Wilderness with the new courses you have built.

I’m a big guy, 6-10 and this car fits me. I love it! I want to see a video just on the Bobcat and heavy equipment,😂. Seriously though!

Very informative video about the Crossterk capabilities, thank you!

Fun to watch video, I hope Subaru gives you some commission as I bought one of these (same color) after watching your videos! I absolutely love it!! Also I learned something new about blackberries!

That little crosstrek continues to impress at the price point. I bet the RAV4 TRD would not have made it. Bronco Sport Badlands NEEDS to make an appearance on this trail. As always thanks for the hard work you do Ryan. Love your content.

Great demonstration I will not be taking my New wilderness through that type of offloading, but it’s great to know and I am enjoying the heck out of my new SUBARU. This is our sixth one.

I would love to see all the wilderness go up against each other, to see how they compare. Done though various different level obstacles

I wish the Crosstrek had as much approach angle as it did departure angle.

I love this car. My wife has one and i have a cx-30 and this car holds up so well.

After watching your videos on the crosstrek in snow and dirt, I'm beginning to believe if you could get it going fast enough uphill, it could take you to the moon. Incredible little vehicle.

Been on the fence of buying this for a while. Love all the videos, definitely going to make the purchase. Would love to see the same course completed with your pick in more capable tires.

As always a great video! Thank you. I've found that turning off the eyesight front collision is essential when doing rougher trails. I have a 2024 OBW, and had a 2202 OBW (same issue). You'll find that it cuts power and limits throttle even before it tells you (blinky lights and sounds) or actually stops the car. Drivability goes way up with it off. Would like to see you repeat some of the same more challenging sections with it turned off. You might just find that the Crosstrek moves through those sections much more easily.

The Subaru Crosstrek, for the price and the features, is still the best bang for the buck on the market. (Edit…I had to laugh at the Mazda protege guy comment 😂)

What's more fun? Testing these vehicles on the courses or using a Bobcat to move stuff? Love to see these videos and it is awesome to see you build your own courses. Your videos are the reason I bought my first Subaru Crosstrek. Keep it up!

Love your videos!! I love the fact that you are doing something different than other channels who also review cars! Because of your channel my wife and i purchased an OBW. Keep it up man!! Please take the OBW on this trail!!

Nice video, would be curious to see a Maverick Tremor on this course if you can get your hands on one.

With longer travel suspension and a front lower lip not as far forward this could be an even more awesome car. It would also be cool to see more of these in rally and rallycross races and longer suspension travel could easily win over some potential customers.

I had an old GX470, and it was a fun vehicle. But I am very happy with my new outback. It is just so much better for what I do, which is mostly long road trips driving in a varied conditions from the desert to snowy mountain roads.

Keep doing what you already started, wenn won't stop supporting this channel

Thinking about a purchase of one of the three Wilderness. Impressed by the Crosstreck but not sold on it. Great Information.

Dude...I love the content. Also take that protégé guy lol

I want to see a cx50 and a passport on this

Another great video Ryan! I'd love to bring my Bronco Sport Badlands with Toyo At3s to that course (I live in Seattle).

Thanks for the excavating and Crosstrek review DS - here in Tasmania I’ve owned 12 Subarus over many years - in fact we have the highest proportion of Subarus per capital than anywhere else in the world - I am pleased to see that Subaru have reintroduced the analogue coolant temperature gauge after removing it in 2008 which I suspect is why so many have overheated and destroyed engines because a simple red warning light like I had in my 2010 XT Forester meant it was too late because the engine was cooked - we also get a lot of CVT failures like Nissan’s XTrail so I’d like to see Subaru/Toyota reintroduce a conventional automatic transmission as Nissan has now done with the new Pathfinder - Crosstrek Wilderness has good ground clearance and looks great with all that reintroduced body cladding to protect fenders etc that all started with my original 1997 Forester LTD which came with 280mm of ground clearance - we have blackberry plagues here because some British idiot decided they wanted something to eat on their bushwalks.

Great video. A bit struggling here and there, but to be fair, I wouldn't mistake what you built for a road 😂 I've been all over Alligator River in our Forester, and nowhere there are the roads anywhere close to what you got. But it's nice to know that if I go nuts entirely - like you, Wilderness will see me through. 🐺👍

Great video as usual, Ryan. Looking forward to seeing more vehicles on the new section. I was curious, have you ever had occasion to test any of the Torq Locker aftermarket auto lockers on any of your courses side-by-side with a stock Subaru with XMode? I think you had the video a while back where that guy had one on his Outback, but that wasn't your own vehicle/course, and if I remember right you had your 4Runner at that time, not a Subaru.

Shocked that the Crosstrek Wilderness did well on the tougher off road course. As watching the video, I thought it was completely stuck.

love my 24 crosstrek limited! they didn’t have any wilderness available so i saved some $$

Nice work on the course.

Nice course and nice video. The Crosstrek did very well. Curious to see how well a Bronco Sport Badlands would do, which is what I have.

Your content is always top of the line. You clearly are passionate about the cars and the content you make with them. I love that subaru is really embracing the heavier off road market. Sure, the car still has its limitations but it's coming along in the right direction.

Great video as usual! I'd love to see you test a new 2024 Tacoma Prerunner on your course -- 2WD with a locker. That should be interesting!

Id love to see a video where you compare the older subaru awd systems from the 2000s agained the current xmode system. :)

what a beautiful car. I hope to buy one of those in the future

Great job once again Ryan 💯 Do you think my Crosstrek Sport would make through? Man you have one of the best jobs!!

Great video. First time I've seen the Wilderness really struggle on your channel. Now I know what to maybe avoid in my 2022 Forester Wilderness ha

Sooner or later, we'll have to give the wife's lifted 21 Crosstrek Sport to our college kid. Probably gonna have to buy one of these for her. Just for the cool factor.

scrapes on the bumper are "badges of honor" and help offset the rock chips on the hood.

I hope you're able to hang onto this new test area. It's just going to get better over time.

There is a big debate between Subaru owners if thay need X Mode deep mud & snow ,thay clame it will be enough to cancel traction control... my opinion it will not make the Subaru move on. X mode deep mud &snow is not perfect but is help a lot . great video, thanks again.

Is there a video where this vehicle is loaded with gear for camping and tested? Great video!👍

Pretty cool test track for these CUVs. Although my criticism would be the ditch might be a little to deep for CUVS, seeing that the Crosstrek is such a compact vehicle. I imagine every vehicle will scratch their front fenders on this section. Also the terrain is still very fresh, almost like loose sand in some section, which is tough. Needs some rain to pack it down. When you have to use the locker on your Ford Tremor on one section, that means it's too much for crossovers.

In Xmode 1 (snow/dirt) might turning off vehicle dynamics improve xmode performance (allow more wheel spin)? would be good to know as many Subarus only have single mode X-mode.

bring the momentum always bring the momentum ..

Nice course for good and real testing. Could i recommend testing first top sellers like tuscon phev , rav 4 prime, nissan rogue eforce ,subaru forester?

Thank you for showing what's possible and what's not with the Crosstrek! It's quite simple really: serious off roading? Get a jeep or a truck or something. Fun, safe and reliable car for the road and occasional off road diversions on dirt, gravel, easy to moderately difficult sand/mud/snow/ditches/rock crops? Subaru leads the way (Crosstrek Sport or Wilderness or Outback Wilderness and such). I've never been disappointed with the Subaru brand.

You think a 2024 outback wilderness with AT tires like wild peaks could get through this?? I feel like I saw they improved/tweaked the mode in the 24 models to do a bit better. Want to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

When are u gonna review the new Santa Fe XRT off road?

I am waiting for 2024 Acadia AT4 tests.

I would watch a video of Ryan showing us how to do home renovation.

I wonder if the forester wilderness would have made that ditch smoother with its better approach angle. Also, is the difference between snow/dirt and deep snow/mud just the absence of traction control or is there more to it? How much difference is there going through deep snow and mud between using snow/dirt with traction control off versus just using the deep snow/mud mode?

Now that Subaru has FINALLY updated EyeSight(TM) to support manually transmission, I'd totally buy a Crosstrek or Forester if they brought back manual transmission for them, but nope. They had to get rid of manual transmission first, and then add EyeSight support.

It’s a great little car, which is why I bought one for our daughter, but having spent a little time underneath one of these, I would caution against anyone thinking to really beat one of these up off road on a regular basis because the suspension while a bit tougher than some, just isn’t built for real off road. Doing a hundred yards of rocks and logs is one thing. Holding up over years of this is different, and it won’t. Just not made for it. Washboarded dirts roads and such, sure. But do this kind of thing a lot and you’ll be in for some repairs soon enough. Be aware of its limitations and it’s a fantastic car.

Now I really want to see that Mazda Protege to run this course...

Tires will fix alot of that. Good video.

I want to see which wilderness model does the best on your course!

So when can we expect the video of you running the course in a Mazda Protege?

How about the Ford Explorer or Chevy Traverse on this test trail. By the way, you answered a big plant question. I have those blackberry weeds scattered around my yard.

The x mode / all-wheel-drive did not seem to want to be doing breaking on that spinning wheel in reverse.🤔

Ryan!!Wow!! Amazing site!! Could you please test the 2024 passport with the ivtm4 at this same location!! THANKS! :)))

So when are we going to see the new Mitsubishi Outlander phev on this trail 😁. Or maybe even the regular Mitsubishi . Although it is a bit too slow?

Now give us a full video on the excavator! We want more excavator!

I want to see that Crossteck just rip it through fast like a rally style car

Yet again, I want to see you doing this with your foot on the brake to see if it will transfer easier

Conviced me to get a crosstrek wilderness as a daily driver / weekend trail capable camping vehicle. Thanks!!!

Mazda Protoge? BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Imagine how much better this would be with a inline engine, at least 190hp with at least 185lbft and a 8 speed auto

The Subaru did great!

The achilles heel with these vehicles isn't necessarily their 4wd system (although likely the system could still be more aggressive (say like Atrac for Toyota, which is one of the best); but it's more to do with the torque management in place to protect the CVT transmission. The fact that it has a CVT means the system has to be far more of a protective system in order to keep temps down due to the nature of cvts... If this had a manual option, or better yet, a conventional auto, the system could get way more aggressive with its torque transfer system.

Founder of Seattle? 🤔. Were people not already there? How’s that measured and where did they bring the blackberries from?

Please run the Outback Wilderness through your new course

Curious as to how much air in the tires ? They looked pretty solid

The stock tires don’t help. They’re designed for fuel economy with minimal off-road effects.

I would love to see the Venza try this course.

I feel like the approach angle would have been much better without the chin spoiler piece on the front.

I'm surprised how well the AWD systems in these Subarus perform. Wish my finances were in order to be able to get into a Forester Wilderness.

In Europe that have a Toyota Yaris Cross with an AWD system and traction control system done so poorly that 2WD vehicles surpass it. Too bad I couldn't see one try to tackle this course. 😅

Imagine this thing with a rear TorqLocker, a high-clearance steel front bumper, some MTs, and a winch. It's a little over $32K USD, and it can tow 3500lb!

You got mud in the tires. Have you ever watched the movie My Cousin Vinny?