X-Mode Question, Please ?

It looks like an electronic way of controlling the AWD system, by using individual brake adjustments.

SUBARU | Forester | X-Mode

This is probably "Fujitsu Heavy Industries", the parent company of Subaru.

The X Mode just sounds like marketing to me, it doesn't sound like it's all that different from anything that's already around.

FHI does apply to all models of Subarus, including 2013, 2014, and earlier, since Fujitsu has always owned the Subaru brand.

Yousuf Khan

And besides, if you don't want it, you don't have to activate it. Someone else who apparently doesn't like it has been talking about wanting to impede it, but you don't have to do that; all you have to do is just not press the button in the first place.

Personally, I like the sound of that Hill Descent Control. There's one very steep grade I come down occasionally that this option would probably be great for.

Patty

There is no button to "send at least 50% of power to the rear" though.

I was using "impeding" meaning "upcoming". But now that I have consulted merriam webster (your ongoing confusion helped, thanks) my reference to the "impeding x-mode doom" should have read "upcoming x-mode doom"

As basia have pointed out, most people would not notice, obama for sure won't, opting for a caddy escapade or another american luxury truck. amen

So how much power goes to each end if you don't activate X-mode? Are you saying that it's different from the current configuration?

Ah, got it! We have a word "impending" that means "ucoming." That must be the one you were looking for!

I have no idea how the president got dragged into this discussion, but you may not know that there are policies in place that require the federal government to buy American-made products in many cases. (State and local governments often have similar rules.) Even if there weren't a written requirement, you can be sure that the GSA or SS (whoever buys those vehicles) would never let the president be seen driving around in a foreign vehicle--even one made on U.S. soil!

Patty

Patty Winter:

In all cases but the most esoteric. In my 32 years of Federal service I never saw a foreign-made U.S. Gov't. vehicle in the U.S. Practically all of the vehicles in our embassy motor pools abroad are U.S. as well, but there are a few exceptions.

The Secret Service decides how the President rides. Every president; no special treatment.

He may drive a golf cart on the links or 4WD (American) at the heavily secured Camp David, but it's going to be heavily armored elsewhere. The armor on a presidential vehicle outweighs a Subaru; a Subaru couldn't move carrying that kind of weight! The current presidential limo weighs about 15,000 lbs/6800 kg. Door armor is eight-inches thick. See .

2014 Forester XT

Perhaps you meant "impending", with an "n"?

Yousuf Khan

The "Cadillac" limo in question here is actually built ontop of a GM truck frame, and it uses a diesel truck engine. We found that out recently when one of his limo drivers accidently filled one of the limos with gasoline instead, during that trip to Israel.

Yousuf Khan

Davoud:

Yousuf Khan:

Interesting. They don't pull the limo into a petrol station when it needs refueling. They carry their own fuel with them by air tanker when the President travels abroad. During my career in embassies abroad, especially in the Middle East, I assisted the Secret Service with presidential protection on numerous occasions. The logistics are mind boggling.

Well, then he may have tried to put the wrong type of fuel in, in the highly secured fuel depot from which they fill up.

Yousuf Khan

I'm saying that x-mode or not new fartsters with automatic are fwd most of the time. x-mode, as Yousuf has pointed out is a separate off-road mode that is just meant as a marketing distraction from that sad fact of modern life.

What a difference a letter made.

Simple. Tightening of cafe required fhi to find ways to find way to add a few cups to the current mpg which required ditching symmetric awd on most of the upcoming forresters.

Then subaru officials have scratched their head how to compensate for ditching "symmetric" from the list of marketing buzzwords and decided to paste "x-mode" band aid instead of the outgoing symmetry

now it's getting clearer?

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