There are 454 Subaru Forester listings on motorschap right now, from dealerships across Kenya. Compare them by price, mileage, year and location, and see what a Subaru Forester typically costs by year in the price data below.

Subaru Forester Price in Kenya

Subaru Forester price in Kenya by trim

Subaru Forester price in Kenya by year

Subaru Forester price in Kenya by engine size

Subaru Forester price in Kenya by fuel type

Subaru Forester price in Kenya by location

How much is a Subaru Forester in Kenya?

The typical asking price is KES 3,534,785, based on 275 current dealer listings on motorschap. Prices range from KES 491,400 to KES 6,199,999, across model years 1997–2022. The figures update as dealer stock changes.

Prices as of September 2026 · Updated 28 Sep 2026 · Figures are dealer asking prices in KES and exclude registration and transfer.

Subaru Forester for sale by location

Subaru Forester Fuel Consumption

The figures above are the manufacturer's own homologation claims for a brand-new car, on the test cycle named in each row and for the market these cars are imported from. They are not measurements, and the cycles are not comparable with each other — a JC08 number is a laboratory procedure, not a commute. None of the cars on this page is new: every Subaru Forester listed here is 4 years or older, and the typical one is 8 years, at around 88,000 km on the clock. Tired injectors and plugs, an ageing automatic or CVT, worn suspension and soft tyres all cost fuel, and so does stop-start traffic. A car changed from standard — oversized tyres, a suspension lift, a roof rack or engine work — moves further from the figure again, in whichever direction the change pushes it. Read the table as the ceiling a well-kept example approached when it was new: for a car of this age, planning on roughly 15–25% below the claim is realistic. The same discount applies to performance — an engine with a decade and six figures of kilometres behind it does not make what it made on the day it left the factory.

Subaru Forester Generations

What to Know About the Subaru Forester

Design and engineering

• Symmetrical permanent all-wheel drive on every version — no two-wheel-drive Forester was built — so all four wheels are driven at all times rather than on detected slip.
• Ground clearance is around 220 mm on the SJ, which clears rutted marram, farm tracks and high speed bumps; there is no low-range transfer case, so it is a rough-road vehicle rather than a rock-crawler.
• The horizontally opposed boxer engine lies flat and low in the chassis, which puts the centre of gravity lower than an inline or V layout at the same ride height and is why it resists roll despite the clearance.
• The drivetrain is laid out along the car's centreline with equal-length driveshafts, which keeps torque delivery even side to side on loose surfaces.
• Large glass area and a high seating position give visibility over field edges and rough ground.
• EJ-series engines are timing-belt driven with a scheduled replacement interval; the later FB engines use a chain.
• Fuel consumption runs above a front-wheel-drive crossover of the same size, which is the direct cost of driving all four wheels permanently.

The specifications above are the manufacturer's published figures for the standard build of the generation named, and they vary with grade and with wheel and tyre size. The known issues below come from recall and service-campaign records and from failure patterns documented across the trade; the parts notes describe supply in Kenya rather than anything the manufacturer publishes. Every car listed here is a used import, and modification is ordinary at both ends of that journey — suspension lifts or lowering, different wheel and tyre sizes, bull bars, roof racks, snorkels, engine and turbo work, and Japanese-market trim that never matched the international brochure. Any of those changes ground clearance, kerb weight, gearing or fuel consumption, so treat the figures as describing the model as built and check them against the actual vehicle before relying on them.

Known issues and what to check on a used Subaru Forester

• Head gaskets on the older EJ25 engines are a documented failure point. On any EJ-engined car, establish whether the gaskets have been replaced and check for oil weeping at the block seams.
• Establish the date and mileage of the last timing-belt change on any EJ engine.
• CVT on the SJ and SK: fluid service history matters and rebuilds are expensive.
• Early FB25s had reported oil consumption. Check the level and ask what it uses between services.
• Turbo models are frequently modified; an unmodified car with documentation is materially easier to assess.

Subaru Forester Spare Parts and Servicing in Kenya

Several Subaru specialists operate in Nairobi and both new and used-Japanese parts flow reliably. Engine work belongs with a Subaru specialist rather than a general workshop.

Subaru Forester for sale — current listings

Foreign Used

Subaru Forester 2014

KES 3,200,000

2014 · 14,000 km · Petrol

Nairobi

Foreign Used

Subaru Forester SK9 2019

KES 3,850,000

2019 · 130,340 km · Petrol

Nairobi

Subaru Forester XT 2.0 Leather Sunroof 2015 118,000 Kms

KES 2,695,000

2015 · 118,000 km · Petrol

Nairobi

Foreign Used

Subaru Forester 2018

KES 3,280,000

2018 · 59,000 km · Petrol

Nairobi

2013 SUBARU FORESTER SJ9

KES 1,980,000

2013 · Petrol · Automatic

Nairobi

SUBARU FORESTER EBOXER

KES 3,899,999

2019 · 55,865 km · PETROL

Nairobi

SUBARU FORESTER #5634

KES 5,690,000

2021 · 45,000 km · Automatic

Nairobi

Subaru Forester 2019

KES 3,300,000

2019 · 115,860 km · Petrol

Nairobi

Local Used

Subaru 2014

KES 2,200,000

2014 · 140,000 km · Petrol

Nairobi

Foreign Used

2018 Subaru Forester SUV

KES 3,400,000

2018 · 64,000 km · Petrol

Nairobi

SUBARU FORESTER 2019

KES 3,880,000

2019 · 63,000 km · Petrol

Nairobi

Local Used

2016 Subaru Forester

KES 2,499,999

2016 · 157,000 km · Petrol

Nairobi