Model years Subaru Outback Wilderness
2025 Subaru Outback Wilderness
Complaints about this year name driving far more often than the model's other years — 45% of them, about 113× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 71 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 1 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- safety — 35% of complaints, 88× usual
- over — 28% of complaints, 70× usual
- off — 25% of complaints, 63× usual
What owners wrote
Crash avoidance Collision system randomly goes off with no cars in front or behind it. This is extremely dangerous as it will make the car stop on its own. Lane departure does not activate until completely over center line. Another big safety issue. This is a…
2025 Subaru Outback has been to the dealership three times for software issues. Cruise control, back-up camera, rear collision system, eyesight system all operate some of the time and other times they do not work at all. Software recall in March 2025 and fix w…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Subaru Outback Wilderness was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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