2023 Subaru Outback
Reliability Rating Report

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This rating measures the level of defects, safety hazards,
malfunctions, and design flaws experienced by vehicle owners.

Are All Problems Considered Equally Serious?
Engine, engine cooling; transmission, drive system; electric motor; and EV battery problems are more likely to take a car out of service and to be more expensive to repair than the other problem areas. Consequently, we weight these areas more heavily in our calculations of model year overall reliability verdict.

Problems such as broken trim and in-car electronics have a much smaller weight. Problems in any area can be an expense and a bother, though, so we report them all in the reported problems chart.