Full-time Traction for Your Full-time Life
At Subaru, we believe in traction. Better traction expands a vehicle's versatility and capability. It creates better handling and control. It can be the difference between you avoiding a dangerous situation or you being caught in one. Keeping a sure grip of the road increases the confidence you feel behind the wheel.
We've spent nearly 40 years developing and perfecting our systems for traction and control. The result is Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive. Its unique design keeps more power routed to all four wheels and keeps the vehicle exceptionally balanced for poise and tight handling. Not every all-wheel drive system is the same, and none provide traction and control in quite the same way as Subaru AWD. It's why Subaru owners believe in their vehicles, and why they feel the freedom to live more of the life they love.
When You Need Subaru All-Wheel Drive | Why Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive is Better |
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Seasons are beautiful things. But snow, rain and other conditions can surprise even the best planners and intimidate even the most adventurous. Subaru Symmetrical AWD can help give you the power to embrace every turn of the weather. It keeps power fed to each of your tires so your vehicle holds on to every bit of road traction available. And if it gets really slippery out there, Subaru Symmetrical AWD reacts to slippage by routing power away from the wheels without traction to those that have it. Even if you encounter challenging weather conditions between you and your destination, with a Subaru, you're always ready. | Every all-wheel drive system is not the same. In 1972, we began developing our all-wheel drive system with a commitment to simplicity, to working in harmony with the forces of nature, and to making every moment behind the wheel a rewarding experience. Nearly 40 years worth of development later, Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive stands out from the crowd with advantages like the stability of its almost total side-to-side symmetry, the brilliant efficiency of its power delivery, and its quick response to wheel slippage. |
How Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive is Different |
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| Many all-wheel drive systems found on other vehicles don't start as all-wheel drive. These systems are adapted from 2-wheel drive to be all-wheel drive. Each Subaru model, unlike most other vehicles in its class, starts out as all-wheel drive. This allows us to build a system for holding the road unlike any other offered. Power is fed directly from the engine, through the transmission, then to the driveshaft and then delivered to each wheel in the most direct route possible. The result is constant traction for continual confidence. |
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