Forester Generations (All Twelve!)

My descent into Forester madness began with a week-long road trip through Oregon. The Foresters were everywhere. It’s fine! They’re not hurting anybody. But when you try to start trying to identify and categorize them by generation, that’s when things unravel. My travel companion and I swore off Wikipedia, and attempted to taxonomize the Forester generation sequence only through deduction and context clues. And it broke my brain in a way that I still haven’t recovered from. Even if you aren’t a car nerd, you can generally tell when a new Camry is released: it’s the Camry that looks a little newer, and a little shinier. Maybe the lights are more complicated. And soon, you’ll notice this Camry will be everywhere. Without making any effort, you absorb some amount of information about the Camry through osmosis.  With Subaru Foresters, I’m not sure that’s the case.  The ‘new’ Forester rarely looks newer than the previous one. Sure, it’s easy to recognize that any car from 2020 looks differe