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What’s New For the 2025 Subaru Crosstrek?

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Just one model year after a total ground-up redesign, the Subaru Crosstrek enters 2025 with only very minor changes. With that in mind, should you spring for a 2024 or 2025 model?

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Shop the 2025 Subaru Crosstrek near you

New
2025 Subaru Crosstrek Base
$27,943 MSRP $27,943
New
2025 Subaru Crosstrek Sport
$33,972 MSRP $33,972

What’s New for 2025?

Other than the larger 2.5-liter flat-four engine and dual-function X-Mode with hill descent control now offered as standard on the Premium trim, some minor pricing revisions and a new color choice are the only updates to the still-fresh Crosstrek. 

Trim Levels and Pricing

Pricing for the 2025 Crosstrek is up across all trims, with a portion of the bump coming from an increased destination fee of $1,420 (up from $1,295). Increases are in parentheses:

  • Base: $27,115 ($825)
  • Premium: $28,365 ($925)
  • Sport: $30,915 ($625)
  • Limited: $32,815 ($625)
  • Wilderness: $33,915 ($625)

Crystal Black Silica, Ice Silver Metallic, Magnetite Gray Metallic, Pure Red, Sun Blaze Pearl, Crystal White Pearl and Sapphire Blue Pearl are no-cost exterior colors available on most trims. Offshore Blue Metallic and the new-for-2025 Daybreak Blue Metallic require an extra $395. The Sport trim has more limited color options but adds the semi-exclusive $395 Alpine Green paint shared with the Wilderness trim, the latter also adding the exclusive, no-cost Geyser Blue. 

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Powertrain Specs and MPG

The base 2025 Subaru Crosstrek buzzes around with a 152-horsepower, normally aspirated 2.0-liter flat-four-cylinder engine good for a so-so 145 pounds-feet of torque, whereas the Premium and above trim levels have a 182-hp, 2.5-liter flat-four managing a stouter 178 pounds-feet. Regardless of powertrain, all 2025 Crosstreks pack all-wheel drive and a continuously variable automatic transmission.

EPA-rated fuel economy depends on the trim and powertrain. The base 2.0-liter sips fuel with 27/34/29 mpg city/highway/combined, dropping slightly to 27/33/29 mpg with the larger 2.5-liter engine. The more aggressive off-road tires and jacked-up ride height on the Wilderness affects efficiency, with the EPA rating it at 25/29/27 mpg. 

Tech Features

All 2025 Crosstreks come standard with equipment requisite of both price and class, with the base trim incorporating niceties like dual-zone automatic climate control, keyless entry, USB-A and USB-C ports in the front and rear passenger areas, and push-button ignition. Base-trim tech includes a 7-inch infotainment touchscreen display that grows to 11.6 inches on other trims.

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Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are standard and wireless on all but the Base trim, and the Sport, Limited and Wilderness trims also offer wireless phone charging. At the upper end of the range, look for more luxe options like a power moonroof, power seats, a 10-speaker Harman Kardon sound system and leather upholstery. 

Safety and Driver-Assistance Features

Only a few bits of safety tech are trim-specific on the 2025 Crosstrek. All trims arrive with Subaru’s popular EyeSight camera-based active-safety suite, a package including forward collision warning with automatic emergency braking, lane-centering steering and lane departure warning. Higher trims add blind spot detection with lane change assist, as well as rear cross-traffic alert and reverse automatic braking.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety last tested the Crosstrek for the 2024 model year; it earned a Top Safety Pick award with top marks in all categories save the updated moderate overlap front and updated side crash tests, where it scored marginal and average, respectively. Our Car Seat Check of the 2024 Crosstrek rewarded the compact SUV with A ratings in every category, meaning this might be one of the better new-car picks for fresh parents. 

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Should You Buy a 2024 or 2025 Subaru Crosstrek?

This depends entirely on your needs. For the Base, Sport, Limited and Wilderness trims, it’s a wash — you should buy whatever’s most affordable in your area. The base 2.0-liter engine is one of the more noticeably underpowered engines in the class, and the larger 2.5-liter raises output and performance to adequate. If your budget allows for only up to the Premium trim, we recommend sourcing a 2025 Crosstrek, as that’ll get you the bigger engine that wasn’t available at that level for 2024.

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