Subaru has unveiled the wagon version of its upcoming 2010 Legacy. Looking much as you’d expect – a blend between the Legacy sedan and the Outback wagon that were unveiled in New York earlier this year – the Legacy Touring Wagon is not expected to reach the United States market, though it will probably be sold in Canada.
Subaru discontinued the Legacy wagon variant for the United States for 2008 and it is not expected that the automaker will bring back the versatile bodystyle without Outback trim.
Available in the Japanese market (other market specifications will be announced later) with either a 2.5-liter naturally-aspirated boxer four or a turbocharged version of that engine, the Legacy Touring Wagon mates to either a CVT or, in turbocharged models, a five-speed automatic or six-speed manual.
The 3.6-liter six-cylinder offered in the Outback and sedan will not be offered in the standard wagon. A turbodiesel variant is expected to be unveiled later this year at the Frankfurt Motor Show when the European-specification 2010 Legacy is introduced.
05/20, 1:40 PM
posted by:
idrinorbarsaku
looks like turd to me. The roof line is too high compared to the belt line. the rear end looks too much like a toyota. and the rear side windows look bad with that bottom curve.
05/20, 1:55 PM
posted by:
Borat
add to this that driver can barely see outside of the bath shaped inner sanctum and you got complete picture. Its ain’t a winner.
05/20, 1:55 PM
posted by:
A4
even canada gets more options than we do? not that this car is attractive, but i mean, cmon.
05/20, 1:58 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
A4, you want it? It’s yours. Take my Subaru… please.
05/20, 2:01 PM
posted by:
A4
haha no thanks, thats quite alright. you can keep the B-class too. Im just sick of the US getting screwed out of variety and diesels. If i had to pick between a legacy wagon and and outback with a gun to my head, id take the sportier legacy.
05/20, 2:01 PM
posted by:
Hyperion
Quite ugly and boring looking but it is AWD with turbo and manual trans options.
05/20, 2:33 PM
posted by:
bd394
This confirms it. There is not one Subaru worth looking at. There all fugly.
05/20, 2:56 PM
posted by:
JakeK66
JohnnyC, I want your CSX!!!! All joking aside, the CSX being the biggest joke, Subaru always sold a sh!t ton of the Legacy wagons in the US, they didn’t want to undercut the Outback’s sales because the Outback always cost more. This wagon is at least better looking than the sedan and the Outback, I’m kinda bummed about it.
05/20, 3:30 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
Jake, you hear about European badge whores all the time. Well we have Asian badge whores up here in equal or greater numbers. You can’t fault Acura; it’s just smart marketing.
05/20, 5:03 PM
posted by:
bimmer_mann_18
I’d stick with an 05 or 06 STi instead. It seems that Subaru is now lacking in style for more curves.
05/20, 10:01 PM
posted by:
zoomzoomer
bd394.. you are 100% correct.. Subaru really blew it with the Legacy/Outback this time around.. it might be the first time in history that a dealer network will sell completely out of their current (and used!) models before anyone considers buying the new one.. but Acura might not be far behind.
05/20, 10:12 PM
posted by:
Hyperion
Actually… didn’t they JUST redesign the Legacy only a couple of years ago? Couldn’t they have kept such a nice looking design in production compared to this? Exterior “refreshes” be damned. Porsche doesn’t change much on their exteriors year to year. If Subaru followed suit they’d have two things in common with Stuttgart.
05/20, 10:50 PM
posted by:
S1L1SC
And the options for decent wagons in the US keep getting smaller.
No, that other Subaru pretend-wagon that looks like a mini-SUV does not count.
05/21, 12:21 AM
posted by:
sharpie
Subaru has gone the Toyota way (i.e. fugly!) Maybe GM was good to them afterall?
05/21, 8:40 AM
posted by:
Fletch
Give me a good deal and I will drive one with 6mt. Stage 2 of course. Yes, it’s ugly.
05/21, 2:54 PM
posted by:
02WRXPSM
Let me tell you a little story. Back in 1996, my brother bought a used Subaru Loyale wagon, with 120k already on the odometer. I went up to visit him in Eugene, Oregon, and he and I decided to go camping — in November — in the Cascadia National Forest in Washington. The Loyale was about 95hp, had about 4 inches of ground clearance. It could not have been an uglier car; I am pretty sure communist-era auto design was more progressive.
That little Loyale, 95hp and all, tore the **** out of the Cascadia park. There was NO WHERE we could not go, unless it involved boulders. We forded streams, tore down fire roads, crawled very scary single-lane access roads, drafted behind logging trucks and in general crossed that park from corner to corner. On the fourth day it was POURING rain and hail, so we finally gave up on camping and decided to go back to town. On the way, we passed five or six big lifted 4×4s that had spun off the road or just called it quits — not the little Subaru, it took that wet dirt and gravel like a champion.
Now, all you pissy babies with your offended aesthetic sensibilities can whine all you want about rooflines and headlights and all those utterly meaningless things which are matters of pure taste… I’ll just think about how my brother passed that Loyale on to another owner with 142k on the clock, and it is still running to this day as a farm truck (rear hatch permanently removed) at some farm outside of Williamette.
05/21, 3:09 PM
posted by:
ricky_b
I actually don’t mind the exterior styling. Interior is generally nice looking though the center console is a bit fussy looking.
They made big cosmetic changes from 3rd Gen to 4th Gen (current) but they didn’t change the passenger dimensions. Elbow room was tight and back leg room was only suitable for kids. Hope they addressed those. If not, then this change was just another cosmetic one and a waste of time to review.