2025 Subaru Forester: The Biggest Change Is the Price

• The 2025 Subaru Forester starts at $31,090, including destination charges.
• For 2025, the Forester gets a more aggressive look, but the engine remains unchanged.
• There's not a new Wilderness just yet. Instead, the outgoing 2024 Wilderness will be sold alongside the new 2025 Forester.

The midgrade Forester Sport retails for $35,890 and adds 19-inch bronze wheels, a gloss black grille, bronze trim, a sport-tuned suspension, a faux-leather gray interior with brown stitching and a bronze steering wheel insert. A blind-spot monitor, X-Mode off-road drive modes and paddle shifters controlling eight preset gear ratios (mimicking an eight-speed automatic transmission) are also included. You can option an 11-speaker Harman Kardon sound system (which also adds a power liftgate and rear automatic emergency braking) for an extra $1,700.

The luxurious $37,390 Limited model starts with Forester Premium content and adds 18-inch wheels, a hands-free liftgate, a power passenger seat, a full leather interior with perforated seats and blue stitching, and the Sport's blind-spot monitor, X-Mode settings and paddle shifters. It starts at $37,390. An optional package adds the Harmon Kardon audio system, reverse automatic braking and an onboard navigation system.

The Forester’s top Touring trim will be priced from $41,390. It’s loaded with all the tech and driver assist features listed above, plus 19-inch wheels, heated and ventilated perforated leather front seats with suede side bolstering, heated rear seats, a low-profile roof rack and a 360-degree parking camera.

The 2.5-liter four-cylinder boxer engine that’s under the hood of the current Forester returns for 2025, producing nearly the same output, at 180 horsepower and 178 lb-ft. It’s paired with a continuously variable automatic transmission (or CVT) and, like most Subarus, every version comes standard with all-wheel drive.

Subaru says there’s a Forester hybrid in the pipeline, thought it hasn't announced an estimated arrival time. We also expect a more rugged Wilderness model to join the lineup soon, with a slight suspension lift and more body cladding. For now, though, Subaru says that the old 2024 Forester Wilderness will be sold alongside the new model and start at $36,265.

Edmunds says

Even though it now starts north of $30,000, the Forester still offers competitive value. With a hybrid on the way, however, we think the new Forester's killer app is still waiting to be officially unveiled.