Video: 2015 Subaru Outback - First Look

We're here at the 2014 New York International Auto Show, we're going to take you through everything that's changed. The Outback is based on the Legacy sedan, which was just recently redesigned and it's much more cohesive than before with a hexagonal grill up front, or that kind of ties everything together much better than the last Outback, which kind of seemed like it was designed by two people, one who did the bottom, and the other person who did the top. Get along the side here, the new Outback about a half inch longer than its predecessor. A couple of differences we'll point out here, the roof rails are now adjustable. You can move them around forward and backward, you couldn't do that before. There's also a new pin locking feature here. Subaru says that you can come back and set a pin inside the car. Say you want to come and do tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, or something to unlock the rear of the car. There is a power lift gate option. That means all of that together that you can leave the keys in the car, or go surfing or something, come back, have a way to get in. Similar interior as we've seen in the Legacy, which is pretty upscale here, a nice padding where your arms and your elbows fall. There's even padding here where your knee kind of runs alongside the door. A few upscale touches like fabric down the eight pillars here. Typical storage situation as far as space in the center console and the glove compartment. There is a 6.2 or seven inch touchscreen now in the center with navigation that includes, swipe and zoom pinching functions like on a smartphone. A Pandora integration comes with it too. One thing we're not big fans of are the capacitive touch buttons here alongside here. We wish that Subaru just had real buttons here again, but at least they kept real knobs here for important things like volume and stereo tuning. Backseat, not a bad setup back here. Similar cabin quality as the front seat in terms of materials and a nice high seating position off the ground here that doesn't run you out of headroom as you sit up. I just went and sat in the backseat of the Legacy, definitely the curved roof back there runs a little bit of out of headroom, especially compared to the Outback. I'm six feet tall, that's where I'd sit to drive. So as you can see, we've got plenty of knee clearance leftover. Now cargo room, about 35 cubic feet behind the backseat. It pops down pretty easily here and it's spring loaded as you can see. So it comes down when you pull on cargo area handles, very easy to fold that 60, 40 split. Maximum cargo room about 73 cubic feet that's up a little bit over the old Outback too. The Outback has standard all wheel drive in a four or six cylinder engine, EPA combined gas mileage improves about two miles per gallon for each one. Stay tuned for final pricing information and our driving impressions closer to the Outback's on sale date in summer of 2014.