Subaru hasn't ever been frightened to chart its way. Through the first passenger vehicle, the rear-engine, two-cylinder, two-stroke Subaru 360, to the import-duty-skirting Subaru Brat with the 1970s, the corporation constructed the reputation filling niches that many companies never even knew existed. This resourcefulness offered Subaru well, assisting that create a tiny but specific following. Although following seeing a Toyota Camry and Honda Accord strike the large time, Subaru chose it was time to push the brand out of the left on the dial plus launched the greater, a bit fewer trendy Heritage for the U.S. industry in 1990. Although car got its fans-it arrived taking the brand’s trademark flat-four engine and an all-wheel-drive chassis-it rarely established enough of a customer base to take Subaru well known 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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