Speaker 1: Toyota and Subaru are no stranger to teaming up. If you've driven the new 86 or BZ you'd know, these two OEMs are amazing at playing to their collective strengths. Now it's time to see if they can strike gold for a second time in recent memory, this is the 2023 Subaru Soldera. The Subaru Soldera is the fraternal twin, the Toyota BZ four X. And I think it's pretty obvious who ended up with the better name in other countries. The soterra can be purchased in a single motor configuration, but in [00:00:30] the us, every Sotera sold will come with two electric motors producing a net 215 horsepower and 246 pound feet of torque. It's 71.4 kilowat hour battery should be good for about 220 miles a range, which is decent. Let's be honest. This thing looks weird, but it's a cool kind of weird, like it fell out of a time machine Subaru's decision to frame an actual grill shape up front, gives it an aesthetic advantage over the Toyota, like many other Subarus these days, there's some dark cladding around the fenders [00:01:00] and a solid eight-ish inches of ground.
Speaker 1: The interior's pretty left field too, but I think it's pretty darn interesting. A traditional steering wheel hangs out in front of a digital dashboard. That's set practically at the intersection between the dash and the windshield between the front seats is a new 12.3 inch touch screen that looks to run a version of Toyota's updated infotainment system that we first experienced and thoroughly in joyed on the Lexus NX. All in the interior offers a combined 126 cubic feet of cargo and passenger volume. [00:01:30] A little more than what the Forester offers. The 2023 Subaru Soldera goes on sale next year and pricing and EPA information should be available closer to that date.
