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Originally Posted by BENT_8
My Wife bought a 2013 Outlander in July last year with the 2.0l and CVT. When we test drove it we found it to be ok.
Luckily enough we didn't trade her Sportivo camry, deciding instead to hand it over to her parents to use.
6 Months later the in-laws decided they didn't like the camry as it was too low for the old boy to get in and out of and wanted an SUV type vehicle, so the Wife decided to give them the Outlander and take back her Camry.
2 days later she said she was so glad to have her Camry back as she was over the gutless noisy CVT Outlander.
It's ok for 2 people, and the in-laws love it, but as soon as you load it up it was terrible.
In November last year we took a P&O cruise from Sydney to Hobart, hiring a 2.4l CVT Outlander to head around to Pt Arthur, it drove fantastically and in stark contrast to the 2.0l version.
On Tuesday we hired a current model Corolla with CVT and found it great to drive around Sydney.
Moral of the story, the CVT is ok if the engine has enough get up and go for the size of the vehicle, the underpowered 2.0l Outlander is quite possibly the worst vehicle we have ever owned
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Our Subaru Forester has a 2.5L motor and I run it on 98RON Fuel. It runs much more smoothly and seems to have plenty of go. Perhaps the latest generation of CVTs are much improved over the previous units. But I have to agree that insufficient power is a drag (pun intended) with any auto box.