The story of the Subaru XT

Posted on 17-06-2016 at 17:11 by jaapiyo – 21 Comments”

Okay, @willeme know it, but you’d be forgiven if you have never of this Subie have heard. Today we bring change in.

The Subaru SVX ‘Alcyone’ is already fairly obscure, but The XT from the 80s in much rarer. Both sporty Subie’s were also known as Alcyone, but a real successor of the XT you can take the SVX does not necessarily call. The last was still a little bit higher in the market. The name Alcyone is actually derived from the brightest star of the Pleiades (also called the Cluster”), which Subaru’s logo is based on. Down Under got the XT/Alcyone, incidentally, the name Vortex.

The XT was built from 1985 to 1991, first only as the XT, and since 1988 as a XT6 with a 2.7-litre six-cylinder boxer engine under the hood. Just like a Porsche. The styling is best described as an ‘acquired taste’ or as the Germans would say ‘gewöhnungsbedürftig’. Functional was the form it does, because the XT has a very low Cw value of 0.29.

That the carriage easily the air cuts, but as well because of brute power the Subie, don’t have it. In standard trim, the 1.8 liter EA82-four cylinder engine in the front for 97 trappelende boxer-horses. With a turbo on it screwed ran the power of the now E82T said motor to be not less than 112 horsepower. In America, that is, because we Europeans were lucky and got 136 hp.

The zespitter of the XT6 variant in 1988, the turbo variant replaced and in Japan Alcyone VX was called, was a very welcome upgrade. Really a lot of power had the zespitter not, but with 145 hp came the separate lined compartment is at least decent forward.

All versions of the XT and XT6 are in different years delivered with front-wheel drive or four-wheel drive, although the strategy of Subaru herein are inscrutable. In some model years, there was for certain variants depending on the motorization only FWD available or just AWD, but in each year remained the possible combinations of change. The full-time AWD system that is very similar to what Subaru also today still often used at that time was an option on XT models without turbo with automatic transmission and on XT6 models.

There was even talk of a possible extra-fast XT with a turbo-version of the zespitter under the hood and more than 200 hp, but due to the bad sales of the XT was that in the end not. If you have a strepentrekker looking for, you can better look for something else. The attraction of the XT is due mainly to the particularity and distinct Japanese styling that is the ’80s exudes. The styling is also extended to the interior where you in front of your nose an individually designed steering wheel and your hand rests on a lever that in a fighter-jet. If you have a XT found from the first years of production, you can even black and white checkered lining make it reminiscent of Porsche’s Pasha-lining.

XT’s are rare, but if you are looking for is there very occasionally and one to purchase. The prices fall in relative terms, it starts at three to four thousand Euros for the gare baking and beautiful specimens do two or three times that amount. A point to keep in mind, however, that not all parts are still to be found. If you have an incomplete XT finds and thinks ‘that door trim, I pull the demolition’, you can be disappointed. But yes, that is the price to pay if you have something special to drive…

Gallery: Subaru Subaru XT

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