Subaru has not been scared for chart its path. In the initial person car, the rear-engine, two-cylinder, two-stroke Subaru 360, for the import-duty-skirting Subaru Brat from the 1970s, the company constructed the reputation completing markets that lots of producers never even realized lived. It effectiveness served Subaru well, helping it create a small although specific next. But after seeing the Toyota Camry plus Honda Accord hit the big moment, Subaru decided the time had come to push a model out of the left with the dial and launched the bigger, a bit less trendy History on the U.S. market on 1990. Although the car had its fans-it showed up loading the brand’s trademark flat-four engine with an all-wheel-drive chassis-it never set up sufficient of the customer base to take Subaru mainstream achievement.
While the Forester, Impreza, and Outback wagon continued to leverage the brand’s idiosyncrasies to win fans in Contraryville, the Legacy’s identity crisis continued unabated. Subaru concedes that the Legacy’s sales were not only far below those of its crossovers, but essentially a rounding error of the Toyota Camry’s, which outsold the Subie sedan by as much as 17 to 1 in recent years. Yet Subaru says the sixth-gen 2015 Legacy is “a Subaru first, and sedan second,” adding, “we are not just a crossover brand.”
But fire up the engine, and you question the whole “Subaru first” shtick. The standard flat-four and the upgrade flat-six engines now are tethered via new liquid-filled motor mounts that filter out a remarkable amount of vibration. The motor mounts are aided in their quest to tamp down NVH by an acoustical-glass windshield, expanded use of foam-filled frame members, thicker panels, and extensive use of underfloor sound-deadening material. Matting the throttle in the 2.5-liter four-cylinder yields an instant and determined response-and a familiar oversquare soundtrack, if you listen attentively-that feels about on the mark for its rated output of 175 horsepower and 174 lb-ft of torque. The four-banger Legacy’s not quick by any measure, but it doesn’t lack gumption.
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