Subaru Trailseeker could have ultra-rare feature when it lands in Australia Subaru Trailseeker could have ultra-rare feature when it lands in Australia

Subaru Australia final week confirmed that it would originate the Trailseeker electric wagon in Q2 2026 — and this week, we’ve learned the emblem is making an strive to fit a spare wheel and tyre to the auto.

A pre-manufacturing Australia-spec Trailseeker grow to be confirmed to Chasing Vehicles this week that gains a prominent under-boot storage dwelling.

A Subaru Australia offer identified that the dwelling in ask will be stuffed with a spare — an notion not batted away by total supervisor Scott Lawrence.

“We would savor [a spare]. We assume the necessity for a spare wheel is indubitably high on the agenda. We are able to work on how we are going to discover a arrangement to give a increase to customers in that dwelling,” acknowledged Lawrence.

Spare wheels and tyres are vanishngly rare among entirely electric autos and are becoming laborious to seek out in non-electric autos as correctly — in particular hybrids.

As soon as thought about an necessary accessory for any roughly long-distance using in Australia, spare wheels are more and more more sacrificed for diversified automobile packaging requirements.

For EVs and hybrids, battery packs continually eat into the under-boot dwelling historically used to discover a spare, whereas rear electric motors, subwoofers and complex suspension parts all question dwelling.

The Chery E5 runt electric SUV has a rare full-dimension spare in Australia whereas the Hyundai Kona Electrical provides a spare-saver spare.

Subaru once prided itself on vary-wide fashioned fitment of spare wheels and tyres sooner than the 2024 Solterra midsize EV and 2025 Forester Hybrid both deserted spares because of the packaging conflicts.

Rather unwieldy accessory spare wheels are readily available for both units, being mounted to the tow bar hitch and taking up dwelling originate air the auto.

Now, the Solterra’s higher sibling — the Trailseeker wagon — is attach to be the turning point that can even glance spares returned to a few Subaru’s higher electrified units.

Like Solterra, the Trailseeker stays a five-seat automobile and the 2 portion a wheelbase, however the latter mannequin is 152mm longer and 25mm taller, because of the fitment of roof rails.

In Europe, Subaru is badging the Trailseeker because the e-Outback — domestically, the emblem is making no secret of hopes the mannequin will be the EV of replacement for novel Outback house owners.

Request Subaru’s marketing marketing campaign to point of curiosity on the Trailseeker’s suitability for Australia — an perspective that would completely be strengthened by fitment of a spare wheel and tyre.

Subaru Australia will be hoping to ring a bell with Trailseeker because the smaller Solterra EV has been a marginal performer domestically, notching up merely 202 sales in 2026.

The Japanese place’s compliance with Australia’s powerful Recent Automobile Emissions Customary (NVES) criminal pointers method it has to lengthen sales of EV and hybrid units at a like a flash clip.

To that extinguish, the Trailseeker uses a 74.7kWh nickel manganese cobalt battery to carry a amount of about 500km. Twin-motor AWD with 280kW of strength will be fashioned.

That will model the Trailseeker Subaru’s quickest manufacturing automobile out of the manufacturing facility ever with a 4.4 second 0-100km/h divulge — a second sooner than a WRX STI.

Request pricing to kick off within the mid-$60,000 vary sooner than on-avenue charges.