Our 2011 Outback Premium has the dumbest air conditioning due to a useless effort by Subaru to improve gasoline mileage. The air conditioning runs nominally for the first few minutes then throttles back so the air-conditioning only cools to ~55-60 degrees F. It is not nearly enough to cool the car in warm weather.
I contacted Subaru who acknowledged the A/C methodology but stated there was no way to override this "feature". So when driving the car, you toggle the A/C switch off, then on to reset it and hope it was off long enough to begin cooling again. What a frustrating effort. Now for any trip to hotter locales, we just take our old Acura TL which has a far-better A/C.
By the way, the Limited Outback version A/C works normally as it has climate control.
- Russ in SB