Subaru Forester review

It’s very robust, but there’s nothing to make you feel special in here and the seats are too unshapely to hold you in place. And there are too many hard plastics and weird colour combos. But that square silhouette means it’s space efficient inside and has a biggish, boxy boot. The rear suspension is self-levelling so you can load it up with logs or other countryside cargo without the nose rising like a speedboat. Equipment levels are generous enough – it gets heated seats and windscreen as standard, while XS models have leather seats. Just avoid the satnav... it’s awful.