I’ve been a Jeep person MY WHOLE LIFE! With that being said… I bought a Subaru Outback Wilderness on a whim, I fell in love with this damn thing and have taken it several times where I usually take my Jeep Rubicon. This Subaru WILL go anywhere I wish for it to go! My wife and I have been blown away by its nimbleness, comfort and reliability. I would NEVER have guessed I would be driving a Subaru… but life is funny that way. It’s TRUE…once you drive a Subaru, you’ll own a Subaru!💪🏼😇

I just bought a 2022 Forester Wilderness, 10/10 boys. I’ve driven a pos for 3 years to be able to buy it, absolutely worth it..

I believe that for most people, this type of testing is the most informative. Especially for Canadians, it is important to know how a vehicle will handle on snow covered roads, including at highway speeds. Thank you for this.

These real world videos in snow are awesome keep these going. I have a 2019 Subaru Sport and it amazes me all the time in snowy conditions no issues at all.

We have dedicated snow tires on our 2021 Subaru CrossTrek Sport and it’s a tank. Awesome car.

In the Compass you can adjust de speed in Hill Descent Control by pressing soft on the gas pedal or brake pedal. This information is found on the Owner's Manual

I'm very thankful that the information on your video is super accurate. So many people get the stats wrong.

The Jeep would have gotten up that deep snowy hill no problem in snow mode as I’ve seen other reviews where it went up a lot deeper snow than even that without a issue

Thanks, Ryan. Great video! Very clear comparison and analysis. Of course as a new FW owner I might be a little biased!

Thanks for another great video. I hope there is still some snow when you are able to test the Pathfinder later this month. I'm in Eastern Washington and there should be places with plenty of snow. Looking forward to your next video.

Great video! I really enjoy watching your channel and look forward to new content. Keep up the great work!

Thanks for the great reviews. I have had my new Forester wilderness for one week now. You were right, it is plenty fast enough, even when not in sport mode. For those of you wanting a turbo...it doesn't't need one! I love this SUV!

+1 For Subaru.. Even without proper tires.. Although, to be honest, It has more Ground Clearance. Either way, a treat on this 3 day weekend.. Thanks, Ryan.

A pseudo-AWD on trail-rated Jeep that overheats going up a tiny hill is always fun to watch!

Was waiting for this ! thankyou !

Very informative and very helpful. Reinforces my decision to get the Compass.

For 20 years I was a Toyota fan....... but when I got a Forester ..... I can say it is unbelieveable in water, sand, snow etc .... this car was made just for best and safety conduction.

Now that’s a great pick to compare

Great video and hello from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

(Canadian here) I just got a 22 compass (not a Trailhawk), and had a chance to test it on snow. Full confidence of what it offers. I like to keep my finger on the 4x4 switch, and flip it up from auto when I'm in traffic and starts to fish tail lol.

"drops the hammer on any potential fun" is definitely the quote of the day.

You guys certainly are one of the best - if not the best - testers for Suv‘s, / reall Offroad consumer cars. This test in the clip is an excellent example.

Another great video! Good work!

thank you sir those who have doubts about subaru CVT i think now they have the answer

Love my Forester, it's such an awesome beautiful 🥰 SUV that does it all for me, all the very best.

11:45 Traction control is cutting power... You should turn off and let tires to dig in snow... Look how Subi is digging. You should try second try from begining with Jeep.

Also to use Hill Decent you can adjust the speed by using the accelerator pedal for up and down by using the brake.

You guys didn’t say it but the best conclusion is that a Subaru hardly will let you down, even if the tires aren’t the right ones! Nice video!!

If you hold the traction control button for a out 10 seconds, it will completely disable the traction control system and you will make that hill. I have a 16 patriot withe same engine, but the 6spd hyaundai Trans. It kicks ass in snow. The over heating is from brakes grabbing constantly. It heats the clutches up quick.

Great video. I have a Outback Wilderness and on snowy and icy Alaska back roads it runs circles around my F250 or any other SUV. In the winter I use Hakkapallita 10 studded tires and in my experience they are unbeatable.

Nice drone shots!

Wonderful video. I can tell you put a lot of time into these videos and we are better off because of it.

Love your work man and appreciate it When are you going to do Toyota Highlander 2022

I see more and more of these compass videos and I really am starting to respect them. It’s like the little engine that could. The Outback has always been a favourite of mine though.

Two things. Most cars have a manual setting on the shifter, that limits shifting to higher gears. This is useful when you DONT want to lose momentum shifting in snow or sand or mud, and you also don't want or need a different mode.. Also in Hill descent, if the car has no ability to adjust the speed it might be that it will lock to the speed it was engaged in. Or if engaged at a stop, it's minimum speed. I believe this is how some vehicles handle this. You can't adjust it, but you CAN self regulate a good speed and let the car take over at that speed. And I don't know about the Jeep, so maybe not. But it's worth looking into. I sorta doubt it is set that slow and you HAVE to use it like that, so it may work as described.

Just got back from Mountain Loop HWY with my Maverick. Got to 3000ft before the snow hit about a foot and I turned around. Love the trucklet!

I know technical reading is not the most enjoyable, but before you do a review you should probably read the Owner's Manual. With the Compass in 4-Wheel Lock and in neutral you press the electronic stability control button located on the dash to disable the stability control, you then press and hold down the stability control button for 5 seconds. You will hear three beeps and a notification will appear on the driver's dash display that all stability and traction control aids have been disabled (basically the Compass' "Lock Out" Mode with equal power to all wheels). If you would have done this the Jeep would have climbed the hill with no problem. 4-wheel low is for rock crawling/climbing when the tires are deflated and traction is good.

Back in 2010 my company gave us all Subaru Legacy's. I was not too thrilled about it in the beginning, then winter arrived and you know what?? I'll never be without a Subaru ever again. No matter what the road conditions, this car goes where you point it. While all other drivers were sliding all over the place, my Subaru was planted firmly. I'd have to say, Subaru got this all wheel drive thing right.

Excellent review

On my 2020 Renegade you can hold down the TSC button for about 30 sec and it will ding and disable the stability control and traction control should let it get a bit more sideways

So glad you're making these fantastic videos! Information with entertainment presented in a way nobody else is doing. Nicely done!

For the Jeep Compass, if you want you have “fun” all you have to do it is click one button and that’s the off/road button for better drifting experience like the Subaru. Good video!

Yeah I like to get some slide thanks for doing these reviews. My wife's enclave will just understeer so annoying. I used to have a 2008 Vue and that thing was perfect.

Researched this car segment for the last 2 months, my findings, - 5th gen forester rated #1 in safety and readability over all others including RAV, trial hawk, honda and bronco sport. That said, it has been a long road for Subaru from the CVT tranny , oil consumption, head gasket issues of past generation vehicles. At 6'3, CR just announced the Forester is #1 with tall drivers as well, no surprise as the "green house" visibility is very attractive. All the safety dings can be disabled permanently, with the exception of engine on/off at stop. After market solution will solve that as well. So, I will be picking up my Subaru Forester Wilderness / pearl white next week. Comfortable driving on and off road, safety and readability, looks, honest service advisors that I have visited with during this time, all have pushed me this direction. And finally driving my daughters 2017 Forester premium, sold me on being a Subie owner. Suggested maintenance to ensure long life; 30k diff (F/R) service, 40k CVT Transmission service, and oil changes every 4k. Compared to the Outback, Off road analysis/videos show the turbo in the Outback gets totally in the way of performance when climbing, as the Forester's new gearing and software changes bring much more to the equation over the turbo, in my opinion. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kKyPfdeYr53Fe4U.html HAPPY TRAILS

Hill descent is something that you try once for the fun, and never use until you check to see if it still works down the road.

This is A Fair and Square Comparison for Both SUV...,👍

Thank you for your review.

Bought a new Jeep Compass limited 2022 model in September 2022 and from day 1 it was a lemon. Paint started peeling off bumper bar, touch screen was faulty, maps kept dropping out and then the car became increasingly harder to start , all this within 3 weeks. We were then by week 6 of owning this car involved in a bad accident and we were rear ended at 80Kmh whilst stationary at roadworks. We are pushed into 2 cars in front of off and suffered severe whiplash and other injuries. The front airbags when pushed into the cars in front did not activate. Jeep investigated the car which was a write off and said airbags were not faulty. I told them they have to be kidding. Anyhow don't but a Jeep. We bought a new Sportage GT Line turbo diesel instead a much more sophisticated vehicle and safer. All the above can be verified.

While using hill descent assist in the Jeep you have to use the pedal shifters to adjust your speed.

Great video! Just got my Outback Wilderness 2 days ago and I just came back from a "ride" into the blizzard that is raging right now: it's like being on a dry road in that car! Of course, my OBW is on 4 x Hakkapeliitta R3 so there isn't much issues. And if it is still to much out there, 4 x Studded Hakka 9 are waiting for emergencies!

In 2007, I bought a used 2002 Forester with a manual tranny. Nothing fancy, but supremely capable off-road in any weather conditions. I took care of it and didn't abuse it, but I had to let it go several years ago. Late last year, we rented a Compass for a couple of days, but the circumstances were such that I couldn't give it a decent test drive on one of our local USFS roads.

I own a 2008 Subaru and it may not have all the bells and whistles like the newer models but still gets me around amazingly in all weather. I’ve thought about getting a Jeep but I’m still going to go with my Subaru when I need to purchase my next vehicle.

You adjust the hill descent control by putting the transmission in manual gear select and bumping the gear up or down.

“No overheat. No warnings.” It just gets the job done. Go Suby go! ❤️

i love my jeep commander and its quadra drive 2 system with ko2 tires its a beast with a hemi under the hood

LOCK button locks only the front clutch (in PTU). It is connecting the driveshaft to the system but still only front wheels may be powered.

I'd take the Jeep for sure. It looks like a mini version of the Grand Cherokee. Too bad you guys didn't use the Subaru on that last hill first. It would have been interesting to see how the Jeep would have done if it went up halfway in the Subaru's tracks instead of the other way around.

I prefer the look of the Subaru and it has a very smooth ride, but I’m biased since I have one

great review! wish they just released the subaru forester with real 4wd/ low range already

Give me oversteer vs understeer any day. I have a Forester Sport and it's been a champ in snow.

Awesome video here. So impressed with what the Jeep was able to get done!

Would have been interesting to see them with the same tires equipped. With the Jeep upgraded to notably better tires, this makes the Subaru’s performance look even better than it already did. -A Subaru fanboy.

My 2014 Compass 4x4 slides & powerslides-rear end outward-quite nicely ..

Very nice video. Also great that you put the snow tires on the Jeep. Not all so called snow tires are really snow tires. I would go with the Michellins Glad you found that hill with unpaved fresh snow road . I would put the Jeep in the snow mode only . Fun watching it

This video reminded me of the continuous all-wheel-drive superiority on manual transmission Subaru vehicles. There is almost never any overheating concerns regarding the transmission or all-wheel drive system on manual AWD Subies. 😄 Thanks again as always, Ryan, for doing these helpful and fun tests that almost all other automotive publications refuse to do! 👍

I sure like the body style changes they’ve made to the Compass 😊

Best car video channel.

+1 for Subaru. I was worrying about subaru but it’s animal ). Nice video. Thank you.

I have a Jeep Compass Trailhawk 2019. It does not perform well in snow with factory tires or with traction control on. I put Falken at3w tires, and remove traction control and it drives fine on snowy backcountry roads and trails I drive on in Northern Ontario Canada. Anyone in Canada knows that the tires makes a massive difference in driving in snow. Although I've had success with the Falken At3w tires they are not true winter tires. Regardless that compass in 4x4 with traction control off, should be able to handle everything in this video. 4x4 low is not meant for high RPMs on this vehicle, nor ideal for going through snow uphill that isn't packed. It overheated because he was reving it up in low. Not meant for that. Low is more so for rocks. You need quite a bit of momentum and throttle approaching the ascent and should get up no problem with traction control off.

i have both brands: subaru outback sport 2008 (manual transmission) and a Jeep Patriot 4x4 latitude 2014, my choice, the subaru. in this video perfectly shows how reliable subarus are. my Jeep patriot started to disable the 4WD system not even 1 minute after. Totally disappointed with Jeep even i like em so much. thank you for sharing this video. was so helpful.

Just bought a compass trailhawk but I also love my outback

In Snow Mode does the trans not shift past 6th gear on highway? In my Cherokee Trailhawk it’s not a good mode for highway use.

In Australia This Jeep is 10 -20k (aus) more than the Subaru depending on spec. Jeeps are dying a death over here, whilst Subaru's are everywhere outside of inner cities, I wonder why.

Great job subaru but the design is frustrating

I would love to see the Outback Wilderness attack that snow!

There is a reason there are so many subarus in places where the weather gets wild. Trustworthy.

I am really impressed with subaru. Thought jeep would win this. I guess, for such situation subaru is better, but for slow (rock)crawling jeep is better.

Stability control is keeping you from tossing the rear around. Traction control works on the slip.

Good test

I will confirm that its very hard to get the rear to rotate on our Renegade. It never really seems to want to give up on being a FWD biased vehicle regardless of the drive mode setting. Sand or Mud modes are fun, but it never really lets 'go' of the rear end, which is fine for our daughter. For me, I'm just used to 'goosing' the throttle to get the rear to kick around on corners...so it can be annoying with the nannies always running...even with T/C fully off...its never really off as you know.

There are used Foresters, a couple years old, that are more expensive than the new MSRP prices. Subarus have excellent resale values. In the winter or mud, I'd take the Subaru any day.

I love this new test. Can you do an Audi Q5 and an Acura RDX on this

Hey buddy I love seeing how a subaru kick the ass to so many cars

Ryan, could you do a Crosstrek sport vs Forester Wilderness comparison?! Same engine, same modes, one is lighter... Would love to know how they stack up off-road in real-world conditions!

Yeah, this time Forester felt better 😁

This really shows the difference in off road tier wise between the compass and Cherokee trailhawks. I have the 2.0 turbo Cherokee trailhawk and apartment from having tons more power and torque, in sand mud mode I would have probably ended up spinning around where you couldn't get the back end to throw. Mine like unleashes it when I'm in that mode. It seems like a much better buy to get a base no option Cherokee trailhawk at the same price of a fully loaded compass one. Or close enough. I also didn't realize you couldn't select speed on that either. On the Cherokee you can go from .6 to like 5.6 every half mph on hill descent and crawl control. There are a lot more differences than I realized. And that's not even mentioning the locker til now. Still I like that one, and it's the same grey mine is and that's the best color

Ooo interesting fight!!

The jeep overheated because you had it in 4low and were revving it too high too long. The subaru doesn't have 4low.

Italy,Mexico,Brazil, China and India vs Japan. Subaru hands down.

if the Subaru would have a low range (of course with a new adapted setting of the "lockers") and rock climb mode , it would be the perfect car for more than 95% of the needs a buyer can have, excepting the hard core off roaders for sure. New compass also strong , love it.

Once in awhile I like getting our vehicles sideways while having fun

I would have liked to see the Compass try that last hill with snow mode enabled.

The heat warning on the Jeep was the AWD system which uses a PTU (power transfer unit), it was not the transmission (and I know you didn't mention it was). Subaru's CVT heat warning happens at 270F, which is beyond damaging temps. I preach to people to spend $130 to purchase a scangauge II for full time transmission temperature monitoring. It would be interesting to see what temps are registering, would you consider putting scan gauge II's in all your long term test vehicles Ryan?

Nice comparison. Can you set up another camera to track speed and include it into an inset video window?

You can adjust the hill dissent control by switching your gear shifter to “M +\-“ the higher the gear the faster the dissent….

Overheated, damn well the Jeep Compass still made it up pretty high, still impressive! , I own a 2014 Jeep Compass and I love it!, I do have mazama all terrain tires on mine and they work great.

The Compass overheated because you kept the pedal pegged. You don’t want to do that with any vehicle on an incline that steep covered in that much snow.

Subaru the only car that have never gotten me stuck no matter how high the snow. I owned a legacy 3.6r and a Forester I loved them both

12:51 - "and, oops, I overheated" - LMAO!

My MY18 Crosstrek's cvt oil temp climbed to 238 f in the mountains of Utah last summer and never skipped a beat. 10k miles later it functions the same as it did when new. Plus, it is warrantied for 100k, so I don't see why so many people dis on the cvt. I guess, some people just don't like change.