Subaru has never been frightened for graph its own path. Through the initial passenger vehicle, a rear-engine, two-cylinder, two-stroke Subaru 360, for the import-duty-skirting Subaru Brat on the 1970s, the corporation developed its status filling markets that many producers never also knew lived. This effectiveness offered Subaru properly, supporting it produce a little nevertheless focused next. Nevertheless once observing a Toyota Camry and Honda Accord strike the large period, Subaru chose the time had come for nudge the product away from the left in the dial and released the larger, slightly fewer trendy Legacy on the U.S. industry for 1990. Although the vehicle had it is fans-it showed up packing the brand’s trademark flat-four engine and an all-wheel-drive chassis-it never set up adequate of the client base to bring 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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