Warning: This review will make you want a wagon

American parking many are awash alongside a sea of sameness. There's fair a bunch of essential SUVs and pickup trucks.

That makes the wagon-ish 2026 Subaru Trailseeker EV a genuine eye-catcher. Unlike the homogeneous crossovers rolling up to basic academy pickup lines today, it gets a stretched, long-roof overview and carries a Subaru badge. It looks akin a appropriate successor to the Subaru wagons of yore, akin the 2000s Outbacks and Legacys.

Technically, Subaru sees this differently. They categorize the Trailseeker as an all-electric midsize SUV — and they do have a item alongside its 8.5 inches of dirt clearance and easy-to-slide-into seats.

But, I mean, arrive on, appearance at this thing.

That's a wagon in my book.

I drove the Trailseeker's top Touring reduce for concerning 450 miles to see if it was a deserving antidote to America's awesome car-design flattening. My tester — complete alongside premium blue paint, a panoramic pane roof, and glowing leg warmers in the forefront place (yes, you peruse that right) — stickered at $48,400.

And it was beautiful wild.

This wagon — sorry, SUV — can really move

I've driven about 80 cars in my occupation as an car journalist: EVs, muscle cars, sports cars, big trucks, premium luxury vehicles, etc.

The Trailseeker effortlessly makes my individual catalog of top 10 fastest vehicles. It can initiate from position to 60 mph in concerning 4.4 seconds and produces 375 horsepower.

Get rearward the steering rotor of this family-wagon-shaped car, and you awareness that power at all times. On my highway-dominant run from New York City to the Washington, DC, area, it quickly dashed by slower traffic and 18-wheelers.

The speed doesn't arrive at the disbursal of effectiveness or refinement, either.

The Trailseeker returned concerning 3.7 miles per kWh, giving the power division concerning 270 miles of juice. While it was whipping former cars on the New Jersey Turnpike, I could motionless comprehend back-seat passengers whenever they spoke.

And, speaking of the rear seat, the Trailseeker's lengthy build gives rear passengers an nearly comical amount of legroom. Fold those seats down, and my panoramic-roof tester has up to 71.8 cubic feet of cargo space, in case you have to move several furnishings around, too.

Its biggest red emblem was charging.

I saw speeds highest about 127 kW, which is beautiful middling in today's EV age. Subaru says the car can obtain up to 150 kW.

Let's difference that to the much higher-priced (but likewise shaped) Lucid Gravity, which is considered America's fastest-charging EV. That one can obtain up to 420 kW, adding up to 200 miles of range in under 12 minutes.

My first fast-charge of the Trailseeker — a top-off benevolent of halt during I grabbed a coffee — took 21 minutes, charging the car from 49% to 77%.

Is it Subaru-y enough?

Subaru didn't build the Trailseeker alone.

It's the merchandise of Subaru's expanding EV alliance alongside Toyota. The two companies now market three closely connected EV pairs: Subaru's Solterra, Uncharted, and Trailseeker equivalent alongside Toyota's bZ, C-HR, and bZ Woodland. Next year, the companies are launching mechanically akin three-row EVs, too, alongside the Toyota Highlander and the Subaru Getaway.

The Trailseeker is effortlessly the Subaru-iest of the bunch, and it's not fair since of its wagon-y looks. It gets a dose of Subaru's adventure-seeking vibe, including norm Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive, X-Mode settings for snow and mud, rooftop rails, and a 3,500-pound towing capacity.

That outdoorsy tuning comes alongside a trade-off. The Trailseeker felt noticeably resolute complete damaged pavement, particularly at lesser speeds.

A wagon comeback? Don't clasp your breath.

You desire a wagon now, right? Isn't this item so cool?

Well, I'm teasing you. Good fortune finding a Trailseeker.

Right now, Subaru has lone a 9.7-day provision of the example in dealer lots, per CarGurus data shared alongside Business Insider. That's fine under the industry average of concerning 70 days' value of supply.

Kevin Roberts, CarGurus's director of financial and market intelligence, says the low provision isn't a merchandise of elevated demand. In September, the automaker lone sold 849 units, fair 1.6% of all Subaru revenue in America.

Rather, the low provision is part of an ongoing trend of automakers gradually shipping 2027 model-year vehicles to lots.

As the calendar turns, Roberts says there's small momentum for the wagon build type: "This section has accounted for small than 1% of new car sales," he said, adding that "the traditional wagon has rotate into increasingly rare in today's new car market."

So, no, the Trailseeker likely isn't concerning to resurrect the American position wagon.

That's a shame. After 450 miles in one, I'm increasingly convinced that fine ones could win complete American drivers.