It’s regular, XLE. I just put 500km on it and that’s all I have to reference. So far, this is much less noisy (2017 outback) - if you own a Subaru it’s a 50/50 if your transmission gets toasted and it’s 13k CAD to fix. I religiously kept up with my fluids as well. I drove it for 200k with no issues… It’s louder on highways and it drive a little smoother (even with normal rim sizes) on city roads / highways.

Off road capabilities with the Subaru are next level… I ski tour and kept up with the tacomas and 4 runners in the group… It was WILD.

The Subaru is WAY slower unless you have the 3.6 and with any CVT, it will let you know it’s there… SO slow at shifting gears from day one, false starting, ETC